1. How does Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center in New Caledonia qualify as "green architecture"?
Answer
Ten pavilions function as wind scoops and cool the inside
Open, unfinished pavilions are used to collect rainwater
Open center is used for cultivating bamboo for construction
Southern orientation provides passive solar heating
2. What is a key question for grasping meaning in Gerhard Richter's photographic paintings?
Answer
Why he selected a particular photograph
Why he deviated from the photograph's reality
Why he omitted certain details from the photograph
Why he blurred some details and not others
3. How did television's An American Family star Lance Loud create controversy in the mid 1970s?
Answer
He was openly gay
He was divorced
He supported abortion
He posed nude for Andy Warhol.