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“Programming, Planning & Practice ARE Mock Exam (PPP of Architect Registration Exam): ARE Overview, Exam Prep Tips,
Multiple-Choice Questions and Graphic
Vignettes, Solutions and Explanations”
ISBN-13: 9781612650067
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Synopsis
A Practical Guide & Mock Exam for
the Programming, Planning & Practice (PPP) Division of the ARE
Every July,
NCARB begins to recreate
the Architect Registration Examination
(ARE) questions based on a new guide and scope. We always incorporate
this latest information into our books.
To become a
licensed architect, you need to have a proper combination of education and/or
experience, meet your Board of Architecture’s special requirements, and pass
all seven divisions of ARE.
This book provides an ARE exam overview, suggested reference and
resource links, exam prep and exam taking techniques, tips and guides,
and a realistic and complete mock exam with solutions and explanations for the
Programming, Planning & Practice (PPP) Division of the ARE. More specifically this book covers the following subjects:
·
ARE,
IDP, and Education Requirements
·
ARE
Exam Content, Format, and Prep Strategies
·
Codes
and Regulations
·
Environmental,
Social & Economic Issues
·
Programming & Analysis
·
Project Budget & Financing
·
Project
& Practice Management
·
Site Zoning
·
Two
Graphic Vignettes with
Step-By-Step Solutions Using the NCARB Practice Program Software
·
Instructions
on Installing Alternate DWG Files for Use with NCARB Software
The mock exam includes 85 challenging questions of the same difficulty level and
format as the real exam (multiple-choice, check-all-that-apply, and
fill-in-the-blank), and two graphic vignettes. This book will help you pass
the PPP division of the ARE and become a licensed architect!
About the
author
Gang Chen
holds a master’s degree from the School of Architecture, University of Southern
California (USC), Los Angeles, and a bachelor’s degree from the School of
Architecture, South China University of Technology. He has more than 20 years
of professional experience. Many of the projects he was in charge of or participated
in have been published extensively in Architecture,
Architectural Record, The Los Angeles Times, The Orange County Register,
and more. He has worked on a variety of unusual projects, including well-known,
large-scale healthcare and hospitality projects with over one billion dollars
in construction costs, award-winning school designs, highly-acclaimed urban
design and streetscape projects, multifamily housing, high-end custom homes,
and regional and neighborhood shopping centers.
Gang Chen is
a LEED AP BD+C and a licensed architect in
California. He is also the internationally acclaimed author of other fascinating
books, including Building Construction,
Planting Design Illustrated, the
ARE Mock Exam series, and
the LEED Exam Guide series, which
includes one guidebook for each of the LEED exams. For more information, visit www.GreenExamEducation.com
