RC 19 SOLUTIONS

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1-C

Refer to the lines in Para 1 and Para 2. “It was, he added, “not

stodgy.” “Stodginess, certainly, is something that the appeal to

clouds might well be hoped to ward off. ……..Moreover, not

only does the cloud seem opposed to all material loading,

equally it appears to resist being weighted down.” Gehry

asserts that the cloud is not stodgy and wants to push its

cloudy, light and dynamic character. Options (a) and (b) indicate

what Gehry would like his recent architecture to be seen as.

Here stodgy refers to ‘being earthy or heavy’ – a characteristic

quite opposed to that of clouds.

2- A

Option (a) is true as Charles Jencks has viewed the dynamiting

of the Pruitt- Igoe as the “death rattle” or the ‘end’ of modernism.

Option (b) is incorrect as ‘famously promoted’ refers to the

“death rattle” of modernism and not ‘being an iconic example

of matter after form’. Definitely, the demolition is seen as an

iconic example but being ‘famously promoted’ refers to the

“death rattle” of modernism. Option (c) is incorrect as,

according to the passage, ‘matter after form’ and not ‘matter

aspiring to form’ is the characteristic ‘thing’ that accompanies

destruction and demolition. Option (d) is incorrect as in the

passage, it is mentioned that the cloud has been of interest to

those who want to transgress architecture’s disciplinary

nature but nothing of this sort has been mentioned about the

Pruitt-Igoe housing.

3 - B 

Refer to the lines in Para 2 “Stodginess, certainly, is something

that the appeal to clouds might well be hoped to ward off. Of

all the flow-motifs available to oppose the heaviness of

congealed and earth-bound stodge, the slow and complex

three-dimensional circulation, drift and dispersion of the nebular

seems the most promising.” It is clear that there is an attempt

to make the ‘cloud’ appear non-stodgy even though there is a

component of stodge in the cloud. Thus, (a) can be inferred

from the passage. Option (c) can be inferred from the 4th

paragraph which states “the cloud is an area of interest for

practices … on assault upon it”. It clearly implies that people

who want to widen the scope of architecture beyond the

rigid framework within which it operates are interested in

Gehry’s cloud. Option (d) can be inferred from the lines in the

last para, “Curiously it was two buildings by the same architect,

Minoru Yamasaki, that supplied the material for these two

most iconic examples of the destructuring of form into cloud.”

Option (b) is partly correct as seen in the 3rd paragraph, but

it cannot be inferred that postmodern architecture regards

modern architecture as its rival.

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