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Final Vocabulary Flashcards

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Women in architecture

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  1. Cheryl Barton - blends history and modern
  2. Andrea Cochran - art on grand scale
  3. Isabelle Greene - natural ecosystems
  4. Mia Lehrer - relationship between house & garden
  5. Lauren Mclendrez - walkable space
  6. Pamela Palmer - water and light
  7. Katherine Spitz - structurally complex
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Andrew jackson was the first american writer on Landscape arch

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Andrew jackson was the first american writer on Landscape arch

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Garden Cemetery

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Clumps of ornamental plantings.

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Landscape lawn cemetery

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Picturesque

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Greensward plan

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Central park plan by Olmsted and Vaux

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First park act

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Allowed public land to be designed as a park.

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Gardenesque style

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Beds walled off in the garden for specific types of plants. “comma style”

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Carpet bedding

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Low to ground and densely planted.

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Arboretum

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Botanical garden of only trees. Lots of types of trees. UNLV.

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Herbaceous borders

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Border with plants all merging together. Compliment each other. More natural than gardenesque.

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Arts & crafts movement (William Morris)

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Artists/writers/philosophers acting out against industrial rev. Used natural materials.

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Hints on Landscape Gardening

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  1. Unity
  2. Inwardness
  3. Outwardness
  4. simplicity
  5. Man as nature
  6. House-garden unified
  7. Ecology for humans
  8. Variety
  9. Educational values
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Country Place Era

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American Style

  1. Attention to detail
  2. Use of high-quality material
  3. Carefully structured spaces
  4. Clear relationship between plant materials and hardscapes.
  5. Connection between house and garden
  6. Balance of formal and natural areas
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3 steps of wild garden (William Morris)

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  1. Evaluating existing conditions
  2. eliminate unwanted plants
  3. Introduce new plants and put in irrigation
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City Beautiful movement (Charles Mulford Robinson)

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First time in history with a comprehensive plan.

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Civic center

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Town square, plaza. center of a city, surrounded by gov buildings. public gathering space.

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Loggia

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Columns that open on one or more sides. Can be stand alone.

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Art Deco

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Sharp, angular, zig-zag forms.

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National park service’s mission 66 program

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Improve parks to be able to handle a larger number of people. Used modernism, which many hated. They wanted traditional rustic style.

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Earth works/ land art

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Available because of earthmoving equipment. They were usually in remote areas.

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Surrealistic

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Dreamlike

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Clean air act of 1970

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Regulations on emission release

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Clean water act of 1972

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Protects rivers and lakes. Because of the Cuyahoga river problem.

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National environmental protection act of 1970

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1970

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California costal commission 1972

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1972

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Phytoremediation

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Use plants to clean a site.

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Landforming

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Shaping land as art or something usable.

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Federal housing athority

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Help people achieve the dream of owning a home.

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Veterans administration

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Loan people money for the houses at low interest rates.

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Preservation

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Do everything possible to keep as it was originally designed.

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Restoration

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Fix something and keep as much of its original design as possible. Fixing up broken parts.

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Rehabilitation

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Adaptive use: Turning a church into a store. Preserve and use for something else

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Reconstruction

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Rebuild something historically significant from scratch. Usually from a picture.

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Historical significance

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Important to history. Has to be documented and certified. Associated with an event of life.

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Integrity

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Retaining enough attributed of historical significance to be certified.

  1. Location
  2. Design
  3. Setting
  4. Material
  5. Workmanship
  6. Feeling
  7. Association
  8. Topography
  9. Vegetation
  10. Circulation
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HALS - Historica American Landscapes

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In place to preserve national historic landscapes.

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4 Cultural Landscapes

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  1. Historic Site - Official site of preserved historical military, political, or social object.
  2. Historically designed landscape - Landscape designed by a specific person.
  3. Historically vernacular landscape - Evolved through use whose occupancies shaped it. Evolved over time. Not planned.
  4. Ethnographic Landscape - Cultural landscape that associated with people who define it as their natural heritage; native americans.
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Greensward Plan - Central park plan

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by Olmsted and Robert Law

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Professional organization for landscape architects

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ASLA

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Only woman founder of ASLA

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Beatrix jones vermont

41
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Characteristics of Beaux-art style at World’s columbus expo

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Neo-classical design. White. Sunglasses.

42
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World’s columbus expo had what rides?

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Ferris wheel by George Ferris.

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Products of World’s columbus expo

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burgers and soda

44
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What civic center was made a national historic landmark?

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Denver civic center.

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Designers during the Country place era?

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Ferruccio Vitale

Charles Adam Platt

46
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What kind of landscape was Jens Jensen known for?

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Naturalistic water features. Approach road. A sense of “wandering”. Fire pits.

47
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Who designed Hearst’s castle?

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Julia Morgan

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Artists who’s work captured image of the west?

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Thomas Ayres

Albert Bierstadt

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Founder of Sierra Club?

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John Muir

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CCC?

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Civilian Conservation Corps

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Accomplishments of CCC

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Helped forest and gave jobs to unskilled unemployed american men and updated forest fighting methods.

52
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First national park

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Yellowstone

53
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How did Roberto Burle marx break up open space in Safrabank?

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Different color pathways.

54
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Goal of Lawrence Halprin’s Skyline park?

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Restore connection of park to nature and urban environment

55
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Movement that created planned, self contained communities surrounded by “greenbelts” (parks).

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Garden city movement

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Designer of Park Guell?

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Antonio Gaudi

57
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2 features of Park Guell

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  • Long bench covered in mosaics

- The lizard

58
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Designer of Copacabana Promenade in Rio?

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Roberto Burro Marx

59
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What shape did Gabriel Guevrekian use in Garden of water and light, for the 1925 exposition in paris?

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triangles

60
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Who designed Blue Steps at Naumkeaf estate?

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Fletcher steele

61
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Who designed the Ira Keller Foundation in Portland, Oregon

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Lawrence Halprin

62
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Who was Richard Neutra?

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Award winning architect. Believed the buildings and outdoor space should be designed as one

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Characteristics of modernist landscape design?

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Rejected tradition and embraced function

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Who worked for Walt Disney for 40 years?

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Morgan “Bill” Evans

65
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Design strategies in Disney Land

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Different colors of plant for 5 different lands.

used plants to create a sense of perspective and tell stories. Plants different in each kingdom.

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Advantages of historic preservation?

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  • Being able to look back and see where we came from.

- Don’t make the same mistakes.

67
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October 2000, National park service and ASLA added what program to document historical properties?

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Historic American Landscape HALS

68
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How does a historically significant landscape lose its integrity?

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Doesn’t have enough attributes to be historically significant anymore.

69
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After WWII, city centers weren’t convenient anymore, what replaced them?

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Shopping malls.

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