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History and Theory Flashcards

1
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Greek tenets

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Harmony, proportion and symmetry

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2
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First PH underpass

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Lacson

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3
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First Filipina LA who took formal education in Harvard

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Socorro Tan

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4
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Noel Aleta-designed Park redesigned after a known accountant

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Washington Sycip

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5
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Size of Rizal Park

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58 hectares (140 acres/ 580,000 sqm)

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6
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Size of Central Park

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340 hectares (840 acres)

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7
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First Philippine historical National Park

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Mt Arayat, Pampanga (1933)

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8
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First LA Dean of UP Arki

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Mary Ann Espina

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9
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MMDA and UP

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Elizabeth Espino

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10
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Crystal Palace designer

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Joseph Paxton

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11
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Predecessor of Capability Brown

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Humphrey Repton

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12
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First to use “Landscape Architect”

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Frederick Olmsted

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13
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Burnham: bay in Italy

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Naples

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14
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Burnham: Canal in Italy

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Venice

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15
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Non-repetitive outdoor element in Central Park

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Bridges

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16
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Central Park of London

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Hyde Park

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17
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Gateway designer

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PDAA

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18
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First (PH) to establish firm in Singapore

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PDAA

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19
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50 php bill illustrator

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Horacio Dimanlig

20
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3 friends of winter

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Apricot Tree
Pine
Bamboo

21
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Pedestrian street/ transit mall designed by Lawrence Halprin

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Nicollet Mall

22
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Literally means pointed hill

23
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Base of statue

24
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IFLA main headquarters

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The Hague, Netherlands
**Brussels, Belgium

25
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Garden decor that brings good luck, creates illusion of extra space, makes an interesting focal point, repells birds

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Gazing globe / ball

26
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also calledEyecatcher, costly, generally nonfunctional buildings erected to enhance a natural landscape

27
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aka Plaza Nuestra Senora de Guia

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Plaza Ferguson, Ermita

28
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A central courtyard in buildings flanked by arcades typical of high renaissance villas

29
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Water channel beginning uphill from a grove of trees

30
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urban Greek or Roman courtyard house

outside sitting room connected to the court, often shaded for summer use

31
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Album of botanical illustrations by Pierre-Joseph Redoute

32
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Greek

  • ancient citadel located atop a hill
  • religious symbolic center
33
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  • Japanese period of great wealth, the arts, and aristocracy
  • City of peace and tranquility
34
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Basin for rinsing of hands and mouth found in Japanese temples, shrines and gardens

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Chozubachi

35
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Japanese term

Suchigaete

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Off-balance / asymmetry

36
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Timur Empire capital

37
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Babur’s first garden in India

38
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  • Ancient Greek portico, usually detached
  • used as a promenade / meeting place
39
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  • study of fitness or suitability of furniture
  • for the performance of human functions
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Ergonomics

40
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Design Style

  • being idealistic, fanciful and impractical
  • stylization of idealized scenery to suggest a natural or bucolic quality
41
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  • style where rigid lines and symmetry are avoided to give the scene an organic, naturalistic appearance
  • coined by William Temple
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Sharawaggi

42
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Epic poem desribing Hindu gardens having numerous arbours covered by creepers, lakes filled by delicate aquatic plants

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Mahabharata

43
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  • Indian gateways marking the entrance to a Buddhist shrine / stupa or Hindi temple
  • two pillars carrying 2-3 traverse beams
44
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Design Style

  • enthusiasm for the wilderness and irregularity of unadorned nature
  • converted woodland valleys into painterly compositions
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Picturesque

45
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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
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Gardenesque

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