History and Theory

Question 1

Greek tenets

Answer 1

Harmony, proportion and symmetry

Question 2

First PH underpass

Answer 2

Lacson

Question 3

First Filipina LA who took formal education in Harvard

Answer 3

Socorro Tan

Question 4

Noel Aleta-designed Park redesigned after a known accountant

Answer 4

Washington Sycip

Question 5

Size of Rizal Park

Answer 5

58 hectares (140 acres/ 580,000 sqm)

Question 6

Size of Central Park

Answer 6

340 hectares (840 acres)

Question 7

First Philippine historical National Park

Answer 7

Mt Arayat, Pampanga (1933)

Question 8

First LA Dean of UP Arki

Answer 8

Mary Ann Espina

Question 9

MMDA and UP

Answer 9

Elizabeth Espino

Question 10

Crystal Palace designer

Answer 10

Joseph Paxton

Question 11

Predecessor of Capability Brown

Answer 11

Humphrey Repton

Question 12

First to use “Landscape Architect”

Answer 12

Frederick Olmsted

Question 13

Burnham: bay in Italy

Answer 13

Naples

Question 14

Burnham: Canal in Italy

Answer 14

Venice

Question 15

Non-repetitive outdoor element in Central Park

Answer 15

Bridges

Question 16

Central Park of London

Answer 16

Hyde Park

Question 17

Gateway designer

Answer 17

PDAA

Question 18

First (PH) to establish firm in Singapore

Answer 18

PDAA

Question 19

50 php bill illustrator

Answer 19

Horacio Dimanlig

Question 20

3 friends of winter

Answer 20

Apricot Tree
Pine
Bamboo

Question 21

Pedestrian street/ transit mall designed by Lawrence Halprin

Answer 21

Nicollet Mall

Question 22

Literally means pointed hill

Answer 22

Montacute

Question 23

Base of statue

Answer 23

Plinth

Question 24

IFLA main headquarters

Answer 24

The Hague, Netherlands
**Brussels, Belgium

Question 25

Garden decor that brings good luck, creates illusion of extra space, makes an interesting focal point, repells birds

Answer 25

Gazing globe / ball

Question 26

also called Eyecatcher, costly, generally nonfunctional buildings erected to enhance a natural landscape

Answer 26

Follies

Question 27

aka Plaza Nuestra Senora de Guia

Answer 27

Plaza Ferguson, Ermita

Question 28

A central courtyard in buildings flanked by arcades typical of high renaissance villas

Answer 28

Campagna

Question 29

Water channel beginning uphill from a grove of trees

Answer 29

Bosco

Question 30

# urban Greek or Roman courtyard house outside sitting room connected to the court, often shaded for summer use

Answer 30

Exedra

Question 31

Album of botanical illustrations by Pierre-Joseph Redoute

Answer 31

Les Roses

Question 32

# Greek - ancient citadel located atop a hill - religious symbolic center

Answer 32

Acropolis

Question 33

- Japanese period of great wealth, the arts, and aristocracy - City of peace and tranquility

Answer 33

Heian

Question 34

Basin for rinsing of hands and mouth found in Japanese temples, shrines and gardens

Answer 34

Chozubachi

Question 35

# Japanese term Suchigaete

Answer 35

Off-balance / asymmetry

Question 36

Timur Empire capital

Answer 36

Samarkand

Question 37

Babur's first garden in India

Answer 37

Ram bagh

Question 38

- Ancient Greek portico, usually detached - used as a promenade / meeting place

Answer 38

Stoa

Question 39

- study of fitness or suitability of furniture - for the performance of human functions

Answer 39

Ergonomics

Question 40

# Design Style - being idealistic, **fanciful** and impractical - stylization of **idealized scenery** to suggest a **natural** or bucolic quality

Answer 40

Romantic

Question 41

- style where rigid lines and symmetry are avoided to give the scene an organic, naturalistic appearance - coined by William Temple

Answer 41

Sharawaggi

Question 42

Epic poem desribing Hindu gardens having numerous arbours covered by creepers, lakes filled by delicate aquatic plants

Answer 42

Mahabharata

Question 43

- Indian gateways marking the entrance to a Buddhist shrine / stupa or Hindi temple - two pillars carrying 2-3 traverse beams

Answer 43

Torana

Question 44

# Design Style - enthusiasm for the **wilderness** and irregularity of **unadorned** nature - converted woodland valleys into **painterly** compositions

Answer 44

Picturesque

Question 45

# Design Style - gardens became places for the collections of exotic plants from far-off lands - individual plant > massing - garden as a work of art, not imitation of nature

Answer 45

Gardenesque