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ARCH202, QUIZ 1

On ‘What is Radical Post-Modernism?’...

1) How is ‘communication’ an important concept for the ‘radical’ in ‘radical post-modernism’?

a) its attendant qualities of metaphor, humility, abstraction, meaninglessness and
purity
b) its attendant qualities of symbolism, image, surface, metaphor, iconography,
narrative, irony
c) its attendant qualities of symbolism, economic efficiency, image, surface,
abstraction, meaninglessness and purity

2) How are ‘formal tropes’ an important concept for the ‘radical’ in ‘radical post-modernism’?

a) Ornament and multiple articulation, complexity and contradiction, collage and

juxtaposition, layering and ambiguity, multivalence and double coding
b) multiple articulation, efficiency, complexity and contradiction, clearness of
expression and truth to materials
c) Minimalism and austerity, simplicity and purity, direct truthfulness in structural
expression, efficiency, clearness of expression and truth to materials.

3) How is ‘social content’ an important concept for the ‘radical’ in ‘radical post-modernism’?
a) Relating buildings by way of abstract sympathy that appeals to those
knowledgeable of specialized architectural theory
b) Relating buildings by way of creating forms that are to be understood as
objects with a life independent of context and detached from place
c) Relating buildings by way of contextual counterpoint and pluralism of taste, or
appealing to different classes and ethnic groups

On ‘A Field Guide to Radical Po-Mo’….

4) The formal tropes of radical post-modernism include: Imitation, fragmentation, collage.
a) True
b) False

5) radical post-modernism seeks to communicate: counterpoint contextualism, iconography,

single-coding and the extraordinary
a) True
b) False

6) The social content of radical post-modernism is: polemical, pluralistic and collaborative
a) True
b) False
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ARCH202, QUIZ 1

On ‘Po-mo an incomplete project’…

7) The contemporary obsession with the _____ and the ______ are only the most overt
manifestations of a continuing relevance of Post-Modernism. ______, ______ and the return
of the figurative are also strong seams in contemporary architecture.
a) Absurd [and the] absurd project; Simplicity, dullness
b) Icon, [and the] iconographic symbol; Surface decoration, ornamentation
c) Metaphysics of the stereotomic [and the] tectonic; Addition, subtraction

8) Contemporary Post-Modern architects are Post-Modernist in a broader sense of belonging to

a Post-Modernist culture that encompasses film, literature, philosophy, sciences and a host of
other disciplines. It is this very knowledge that makes them _______. They implicitly reject the
_______ of an architectural culture happy pursuing a _______, tastefully rendered version of
Modernism

a) Radical; platitudes; hollowed-out

b) Radical; fascinating; elitist
c) Radical; egalitarianism; empty

On ‘ Re-radicalising Po-mo’…

9) Why is OMA’s Parc de la Villette proposal is a radical space of ____, ____, and _____?
Because …. ______

a) Truths, purity and flows; Because of its calm, straightforward approach to

design.
b) Rigourous, static, and orderliness; Because of its lack of variety, ornamentation
and playfulness
c) Contradictions, contaminations and congestions; Because of its wildly disparate
and therefore unstable programmatic adjacencies, with fake deserts and
hedonistic playgrounds.

10) The image of Denise Scott Brown is radical because it is:

a) An image of the architect as a professional of high business culture who is
more concerned with economic efficiency than common people and their daily
experience of the city
b) An image of the architect as a real, true humanist willing to take on the reality
of urban conditions rather than some baseless exploration of form-finding
c) An image of a rebel artist who creates art for art’s sake, that speaks to no one
but their own ego