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WorksheetsClass Participation # 3
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Early Modernist planning and urban design was a reaction to the
a. Baroque Urban planning principles
b. New innovations in building materials and construction methods
c. Physical conditions of industrial cities
d.Social status of new capitalists
One of the key element of the Charter of Athens by CIAM was:
a. Contextual Design
b.Functional Buildings
c. Detachment of buildings from each other
d. Functional zoning
The Modernist cities were seen as machines, designed to accommodate the car by:
a. Orientating buildings towards the sun rather than towards the street
b. Proposing rigid functional zoning of city plans
c. Segregating vehicles and pedestrians
d. Spreading buildings out in green surroundings to allow light and air
Modernists’ designed their building to express their function and functional requirements, with no respect to their urban context, therefore they became:
a. Industrialized products
b. Part of the urban fabric
c. Objects-in-space
d. Car oriented structures
The term “Zeitgeist” means:
a. The industrial revolution
b. The urban change
c. The spirit of the age
d. The post-modernist philosophy
Modernist buildings’ shortcomings / failure were perceived as the result of:
a. The functional approach to design
b. The lack of users' participation
c. The new machine age aesthetics
d. The new spirit of the time
The Modernists’ zoning regulations and building complexes which internalized many of the street life resulted in the current need for more:
a. Cultural events
b. Museums
c. Mixed use environments
d. Shopping Malls
The postmodern theorists and practitioners advocate an urban design approach based on:
a. Breaking with the past
b. Continuity with the past
c. New postmodernist highways design
d. Transportation systems emphasizing cars ownership
The dissatisfaction with Modernist architecture was documented in books by Robert Venturi such as:
a. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
b. The Urban Design Reader
c. The death and life of great American Cities
d. The Image of the city
The lack of social qualities of cities and the fragmented urban areas reflecting the effect of car on cities has been termed:
a. Automobile territory
b. Donut cities
c. Parking blocks
d. Perimeter cities
