        1012 optional FINALplease download this fileCOA 1012 optional take home final SPRING 2008A.doc COA 1012 SPRING 2008 OPTIONAL FINAL: TAKE-HOME EXAM Due: Wednesday, April 30 Drop off your exam at the Deans’ Office, Room 254 This Optional Final Exam is explicitly written to benefit those students who attended the 1012 lectures. In responding to the questions we ask you to refer to your notes as well as to the lecture powerpoints that are available online at http://cool.coa.gatech.edu/coolx/1034 Please note that ppts are not available for all the lectures. Print out this sheet, fill it out, and staple to the front of your take-home exam. All SIX questions carry equal weight. This exam is worth 12.5% of the final course grade. If you receive a Passing Grade on the exam, you will receive an A for 12.5% of the final grade. If you do not receive a Passing Grade, the 12.5% of the final grade will revert to your studio projects. HONOR CODE AGREEMENT “Having read the Georgia Institute of Technology Academic Honor Code, I understand and accept my responsibility as a member of the Georgia Tech Community to uphold the Honor Code at all times. In addition, I understand my options for reporting honor violations as detailed in the code.” STUDENT SIGNATURE: STUDENT NAME: COA 1012 INSTRUCTOR NAME: COMMENTS: GRADE: QUESTION ONE. 20 PTS Professor Craig sketched out for us a history of the buildings and the people associated with the modernist buildings in Atlanta and on the Georgia Tech campus in the years before and after the Second World War. What were some of the significant aspects of his particular accounting of forty-plus years of modernist architecture? QUESTION TWO. 20 PTS “Slenderella in the Sky” refers to which building and why? What is do-co-mo-mo’s main task? What is the primary challenge it faces in doing its task? QUESTION THREE. 20 PTS Summarize Victor Lesniewski’s account of how the Mad Housers began. What made their (the first Mad Housers) first attempts at designing for the homeless compelling from the point of view of design process? QUESTION FOUR. 20 PTS What were the organizing questions/themes for Professor Flowers’ talk of modern architecture in the fifties in the USA? QUESTION FIVE. 20 PTS List and explain the many different kinds of ‘diversity’ that came up in the discussion that ensued following Professor Khan’s report on the NAAB Accreditation Visit’s initial findings. QUESTION SIX. 20 PTS What is the National Register of Historic Places? What does the National Register make possible? What does it not do/make possible? Could modern buildings be eligible for inclusion in the National Register? |  | 
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