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In Egyptian architecture, the tomb of the pharaohs is the. Pyramid
The great pyramid at Gizeh was built during the 4th dynasty by. Cheops
The beginner of the great hypostyle hall at karnak and the founder of the 19th dynasty. Rameses 1
Domical mound containing a relic. Stupa
Bale
A Filipino architect whose philosophy is 'the structure must be well oriented'.
What is not required as a feature in modern Muslim mosque.
Caesar Homer Concio
Pinnacle
A concave molding approximately quarter round.
Architect of Iglesia ni Cristo.
A compound bracket or capital in Japanese architecture.
A roof in which 4 faces rests diagonally between the gables and converge at the roof. Helm Roof
Masu-gumi
Cavetto
Carlos Santos Viola
A small tower usually corbelled at the corner of the castle.
A hall built in Roman Empire for the administration of justice.
The Parthenon is from what architecture.
Female statues with baskets serving as columns. Canephora
Bartizan
Basilica
Greek
A vault created when two barrel vaults intersect at the right angles.
Sarimanok is a dcor reflecting the culture of the ___.
Caryatid porch is from what architecture?
The highest sloped pyramid in Gizeh Pyramid of Khufu
Groin Vault
Visayan
Greek
works.
Amenemhat I
Senusret I Who erected the earliest known obelisk at Heliopolis.
Jubilee festivals of the pharaohs.
The world's first large-scale monument in stone.
Heb-sed
Pyramid of Zoser
Taj Mahal temple is located in ___.
From what architecture is the Angkor Vat?
Embrasures
Agra
In the middle kingdom, in Egyptian architecture, who consolidate the administrative
system, made a survey of the country, set boundaries to the provinces, and other helpful
Founder of the Bauhaus School of Art.
What architectural term is termed to be free from any historical style?
Senate house for chief dignitaries in Greek architecture
Architect of the Einstein Tower.
The architect of Chrysler building in N.Y.
Another term for crenel or intervals between merlon of a battlement.
A semi-circular or semi-polygonal space, usually in church, terminating in axis and
intended to house an altar.
Temples in Greece that have a double line of columns surrounding the naos.
Apse
Dipteral
In Mesopotamian architecture, religion called for temples made of sun-dried bricks. Ziggurat
Earthen burial mounds containing upright and lintel stones forming chambers for
consecutive burials for several to a hundred persons.
Tumuli
Japanese tea house.
A Muslim temple, a mosque for public worship, also known as place for prostration.
The style of the order with massive and tapering columns resting on a base of 3 steps.
Tomb of the pharaohs.
Doric
Pyramid
Ifugao house (southern strain).
The architecture of the curved line is known as ___.
The open court in an Italian palazzo.
Baroque
Cortel
Refectory
The ornamental pattern work in stone, filling the upper part of a Gothic window. Tracery
The use of ___ for facing walls distinguishes Romanesque architecture in Italy from that
of the rest of Europe.
The outstanding group of Romanesque is found in ___. Pisa
Marble
The dining hall in a monastery, a convent, or a college.
the ornament itself.
Also called a 'Honeysuckle' ornament. Anthemion
Acroterion / Acroterium
In ancient Greece and Rome, a storeroom of any kind, but especially for storing wine.
The characteristic of Greek ornament. Anthemion
Apotheca
The fortified high area or citadel of an ancient Greek City.
An upright ornament at the eaves of a tile roof, concealing the foot of a row of convex
tiles that cover the joints of the flat tiles.
Acropolis
Antefix (Antefixae)
Strictly, a pedestal at the corners or peak of a roof to support an ornament, more usually,
The most famous and perfect preservation of all ancient buildings in Rome. Pantheon
Marble
The space between the colonnade and the naos wall in Greek temple.
Amphitheaters are used for ___.
An ancient Greek Portico, a long colonnaded shelter used in public places.
Pteroma
Gladiatorial Contests
Stoa
Marble
domains had ample supply of was.
Greek architecture was essentially.
Forming the imposing entrance to the acropolis and erected by the architect Mnesicles
Propylaea
The architectural character of the Romanesque architecture is.
St. Sophia, Constantinople
Sober and dignified
The finest and remaining example of Byzantine architecture.
The mineral of greatest importance to Greek architecture of which Greece and her
With the use of concrete made possible by pozzolan, a native natural cement, the
The building in the acropolis generally considered as being the most nearly perfect
building ever erected is the.
Romans achieved huge interiors with the.
Columnar trabeated
is the.
Parthenon
Arch and vault
Which of the order was added by the Romans to the orders used by the Greeks.
From the 5th century to the present, the character of Byzantine architecture is the
practice of using.
Domical roof construction
Romanesque architecture in Italy is distinguished from that of the rest of Europe by the
use of what material for facing walls.
Composite
Prytaneion
Erich Mendelsohn
Walter Gropius
Art Noveau
Cambodian
Van Alen
Cha-sit-su
Masjid
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132 Pediment Triangular piece of wall above the entablature.
A line of counterthrusting arches on columns or piers.
Plan shape of a Chinese pagoda.
Frieze
Architrave
Parts of an entablature, in order of top to bottom.
Cornice
Octagonal
a blind story.
A windowed wall that rises above the roof of adjacent walls that admit light into the
In classical architecture, the elaborated beam member carried by the columns. Entablature
Tympanum
Arcade
Architrave
In the classical order, the lowest part or member of the entablature; the beam that spans
from column to column.
The triangular or segmental space enclosed by a pediment or arch.
Ziggurat
Acanthus
Module
Triforium
Clerestory
Structure of wedge-shaped blocks over an opening. Arch
The space between the sloping roof over the aisle and the aisle vaulting, so also called
interior.
A standard, usually of length, by which the proportions of a building are determined.
Architect of Manila Hilton Hotel.
Finest example of French-Gothic architecture
Welton Becket
Chartres Cathedral
Sacred artificial mountains of Babylon and Assyria.
A plant whose leaves form the lower portions of the Corinthian capital.
How many stained glass are there in the Chartres Cathedral? 176
Agora is from what architecture? Greek
and powerful vaults, and lasting until the advent of Gothic architecture.
Romanesque
Architect and furniture designer.
First registered architect in the Philippines.
The public square of imperial Rome.
Alvar Aalto
Tomas Mapua
Forum
A roman house with a central patio.
Revival of classical Roman style
Atrium House
Romanesque
The style emerging in western Europe in the early 11th century, based on Roman and
Byzantine elements, characterized by massive articulated wall structures, round arches,
A decorative bracket usually taking the form of a cyma reversa strap. Console
Bema
Crypt
Semi-palatial house surrounded by an open site. Villa
In Greek temples, the equivalent of the crypt is the ___.
Aljibe
Impluvium
Naos
The tomb beneath a church.
A raised stage reserved for the clergy in early Christian churches.
Cheops
The three pyramids in Gizeh Chefren
Mykerinos
The cistern storage of collected rainwater underneath the azotea of the bahay na bato.
A shallow cistern or drain area in the center of a house.
From the Greek temples, a temple that have porticoes of columns at the front and rear.
Memorial monuments of persons buried elsewhere in Roman architecture.
"cubicula" or bedroom is from what architecture.
From the Greek forms of temple, the three where it lies is known as ___.
Roman
Crepidoma
Amphi-Prostyle
Cenotaphs
A slight vertical curvature in the shaft of a column. Entasis
Agora
The very ornate style of architecture developed in the later renaissance period.
A multi-storied shrine like towers, originally a Buddhist monument of diminishing size with
corbelled cornice and moldings.
Baroque
Pagoda
The convex projecting molding of eccentric curve supporting the abacus of a Doric capital.
Pantiles used for Chinese roofings.
Echinus
Saracenic Architecture
S-tiles
Greek equivalent of the Roman forum, a place of open air assembly or market.
Architect of the national library, Philippines.
The xerxes hall of hundred columns was introduced during the Mesopotamian
architecture, which palace was it used.
Felipe Mendoza
Palace of Persepolis
Taj Mahal is a building example of what architecture.
Different historical styles combined.
Architect of TWA airport.
The falling water by Frank Lloyd Wright is also known as ___. Kaufman House
Eclecticism
Eero Saarinen
First school which offered architecture in the Philippines. Liceo de Manila
Embrasures.
Formal architecture, one of the principles of composition.
Crenel
Balance
Bouleuterion
A faced without columns or pilaster in renaissance architecture.
Art Noveau is known as the international style, in Germany it is known as ___.
Less is more.
Astylar
Jugendstijl
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Elizabethan Architecture is from what architecture.
Art Noveau style first appeared in what structure.
U.S. / English Renaissance
Tussel House
Baroque for of Ornamentation
Architect of Robinson's Galleria William Cosculluela
Major contribution of the Renaissance Architecture.
"A house is like a flower pot"
Plan shape of a Japanese pagoda.
The most famous structure of Byzantine architecture and notable of its large dome.
Square
Hagia Sophia
Richly carved coffins of Greece and Mesopotamia. Sarcophagus
King Zoser's architect who was deified in the 26th dynasty. Imhotep
Richard Josef Neutra
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A special feature of Japanese houses, used to display a flower arrangement or art. Tokonama
The council house in Greece.
First president and founder of PAS. Juan Nakpil
"Modern architecture need not be western". Kenzo Tange
Usual number of stories for a Chinese pagoda.
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A spherical triangle forming the transition from the circular plan of a dome to the poly-
chancel and usually flanked by aisles.
The covered walk of an atrium.
A basin for ritual cleansing with water in the atrium of an early Christian basilica. Cantharus
Ambulatory
Nave
The principal or central part of a church, extending from the narthex to the choir or
A recess in a wall to contain a statue or other small items.
A tower in the Muslim Mosque used to call people to prayer.
A large apsidal extension of the interior volume of a church. Exedra
An ornamental canopy of stone or marble permanently place over the altar in a church.
A decorative niche often topped with a canopy and housing a statue.
Baldachino
Tabernacle
A term given to the mixture of Christian, Spanish, and Muslim 12th-16th century
Bayon
Mudejar
architecture.
Coffers, sunken panels in the ceiling.
Niche
Minaret
Buddha.
The Buddhist temple in ancient Cambodia which feature four faces of the compassionate
Lacunaria
Crocket
Abacus
Capital
Projecting blocks of stone carved with foliage, typical in Gothic architecture.
A slab forming the crowning member of the capital.
The crowning member of a column.
Plinth
Chancel
Frigidarium
A rectangular or square slab supporting the column at the base.
A low screen wall enclosing the choir in early Christian church.
The cold section of a Roman Bath.
Barasoain Church
Seraglio
Private family apartments in Assyrian palaces.
This church in the Philippines is the seat of the Malolos Congress.
The palace proper in Assyrian palaces.
Holy mountains. Ziggurat
Architect of the famous propylaea, Acropolis. Mnesicles
Harem
Two main classes of temples in Egyptian Architecture.
Egyptian temples for ministrations to deified pharaohs.
Mortuary and Cult Temples
Mortuary Temple
The most stupendous and impressive of the rock-cut-temples.
The four-seated colossal statues of Rameses II is carved in the pylon of the ___.
Favorite motifs of design of the Egyptians.
Great Temple, Abu Simbel
Palm, Lotus, and Papyrus
Great Temple, Abu Simbel
Egyptian temples for the popular worship of the ancient and the mysterious gods. Cult Temple
The use of monsters in doorways is prevalent in what architecture? Persian
Structure whose sides are made to face the four cardinal points.
Structure whose corners are made to face the four cardinal points. Ziggurat
Pyramid
Gymnasium
A single line of columns surrounding the Naos.
The uppermost step in the crepidoma.
Peripteral
Stylobate
The Greek male statues used as columns. Atlantes
A recessed or alcove with raised seats where disputes took place. Exedra
Prostyle
The lowest step in the crepidoma.
A building in Greek and Roman for exercises or physical activities.
The three chamber of a Greek temple. Pronaos, Naos, and Epinaos
Stereobate
Intercolumniation of 2.25 diameters. Eustyle
A Greek building that contains painted pictures.
Temple with a portico of columns arranged in front.
The clear space in between columns. Intercolumniation
Pinacotheca
Pendentive
gonal plan of its supporting structure.
A long arcaded entrance porch in an early Christian church. Narthex
Pycnostyle intercolumniation has how many diameters? 1.5 Diameters
Diastyle intercolumniation has how many diameters. 3 Diameters
Intercolumniation of 4 diameters. Areostyle
Intercolumniation of 2 diameters. Systyle
Odeion
Circus
Colosseum
Wrestling
A kindred type to the theater.
Roman building which is a prototype of the hippodrome of the Greek.
Roman building for which gladiatorial battles took place.
What sporting event takes place in the Palaestra?
Epidauros
A foot race course in the cities. stadium
A temple with 1-4 columns arranged between antae at the front.
A temple with 1-4 columns arranged between antae at the front and rear.
In Antis
Amphi-Antis
What orders did the Etruscans and the Romans add making 5 in all? Tuscan and Composite
What allowed the Romans to build vaults of a magnitude never equaled till the birth of
Use of Concrete
steel for buildings.
In Greek, it is the Roman prototype of the Thermae. Gymnasium
Greek order that has no base.
The most beautiful and best preserved of the Greek theaters.
Doric
Pantheon
Forum Romanum
Xerxes
Artaxerxes
The finest of all illustrations of Roman construction.
The oldest and most important forum in Rome.
Who commenced the 'hall of hundred columns'?
Who completed the 'hall of hundred columns'?
Callicrates and Ictinus
Phidias
Lacus
Salientes
Architects of the Parthenon.
Master sculptor of the Parthenon.
In Roman fountains, the large basin of water.
Spouting jets in Roman fountain.
Architect of the Erechtheion. Mnesicles
A water clock or an instrument for measuring time by the use of water.
The oldest circus in Rome. Circus Maximus
The colosseum in Rome also known as the "flavian amphitheater" was commenced by
Vespasian / Domitian
whom and completed by whom?
Clepsydra
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The prominent feature of the facades in Romanesque Central Italy. Ornamental Arcades
The best example of a German Romanesque church with apses at both east and west
Worms Cathedral
ends.
One of the few churches of its type to have survived having a square nave and without
Nea Moni
cross-arms, roofed by a dome which spans to the outer walls of the building.
A tower raised above a roof pierced to admit light. Lantern
the covered passage around an open space or garth, connecting the church to the chapter
Cloisters
house, refectory and other parts of the monastery.
Architects of the Hagia Sophia. (St. Sophia, Constantinople) Anthemius and Isidorus
The supreme monument of Byzantine architecture. St. Sophia, Constantinople
Smallest cathedral in the world. (Byzantine period) Little Metropole Cath., Athens
In early Christian churches, the bishop took the central place at the end of the church
Apse
called ___.
The iconoclastic movement during the Byzantine period forbade the use of ___. Statues
Type of plan of the Byzantine churches. Centralized
One of the best examples of a surviving megaron type of Greek domestic building.
In some churches, there is a part which is raised as part of the sanctuary which later
Bema
developed into the transept, this is the ___.
The molding that is often found in the Doric Order. Bird's Beak
The wall or colonnade enclosing the Temenos Peribolus
Podium
Roman large square tiles.
The finest of Greek Tombs, also known as the 'tomb of Agamemnon'.
Architect of the Temple of Zeus, Agrigentum
Architect of the Temples of Zeus, Olympia.
Treasury of Atreus
Theron
Libon
The water-leaf and tongue is a usual ornament found in the ___.
The Corona is usually painted with the ___.
Greek sculptures may be classified as "architectural sculpture, free standing statuary,
and the ___".
Roman architect of the Greek Temples of Zeus, Olympius. Cossutius
Both the regula and the mutule has guttae numbering a total of ___.
A quadrigas is a ___.
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4-horse Chariot
Bepidales
The private house of the Romans.
Roman rectangular temples stood on a ___.
A type of Roman wall facing with alternating courses of brickworks. Opus Mixtum
Cyma Reversa
Key Pattern
Sculptured Reliefs
Domus
House #33
A type of roman wall facing with rectangular block with or without mortar joints.
Opus Recticulatum
Opus Quadratum
A Roman structure used as hall of justice and commercial exchanges. Basilica
A type of Roman wall facing which is made of small stone laid in a loose pattern roughly
Opus Incertum
resembling polygonal work.
A type of Roman wall facing with a net-like effect.
of straight lines intersecting at right angles, and of various patterns.
Fret
Figures of which the upper parts alone are carved, the rest running into a parallelopiped
or diminishing pedestal.
Termini
A type of monument erected to support a tripod, as a prize for athletic exercises or
Choragic Monument
musical competitions in Greek festivals.
A type of ornament in classic or renaissance architecture consisting of an assemblage
The origin of the door architrave. Timber-enframed Portal
The atrium type of house originated with the ___. Etruscans
Marble mosaic pattern used on ceilings of vaults and domes. Opus Tesselatum
Conceptualized the Corinthian capital.
The sleeping room of the 'megaron'.
Callimachus
Thalamus
!5th to 18th century architecture. Renaissance
"Form follows function". Louis Sullivan
Roman apartment blocks. Insula
A building in classic architecture decorated with flowers and plants with water for the
Nymphaeum
purpose of relaxation.
Who began the building of the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak? Thothmes I
Architect of the Great Serapeum at Alexandria. Ptolemy III
The dominating personality who became an ardent disciple of the Italian renaissance
Iigo Jones
style.
A pillared hall in which the roofs rests on the column in Egyptian temples. Hypostyle Hall
The warm room in the Thermae. Tepidarium
The Hot room of the Thermae. Calidarium
He created the Dymaxion House, "the first machine for living".
Tombs built for the Egyptian nobility rather than the royalty.
Architect of the Lung Center of the Philippines. George Ramos
Buckminster Fuller
Rock-Hewn Tombs
The cold or unheated pool in the Thermae. Frigidarium
The dry or sweating room in the Thermae.
The dressing room of the Thermae.
Sudatorium
Apodyteria
Unctuaria
Forum
East
South
The room for oils and unguents in the thermae.
Orientation of the Roman temple is towards the ___.
Orientation of the Greek temple is towards the ___.
Orientation of the Etruscan temple is towards the ___.
On either side of the choir, pulpits for the reading of the epistle and the gospel are
called.
Ambo
Orientation of the Medieval Church. West
The space for the clergy and choir is separated by a low screen wall from the body of the
Cancelli
church called ___.
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The emergency hideout found directly behind the neadboard of the Sultan's bed. Bilik
The flat, open terrace open to the toilet, bath, and kitchen areas and also used as a
Azotea
laundry and drying space and service area for the servants.
In the kitchen of the bahay kubo, the table on top of which is the river stone, shoe-shaped
Dapogan
stove or kalan is known as ___.
G.S.I.S. Building, Roxas Boulevard. George Ramos
The tower atop the torogan where the princess and her ladies in waiting hide during
Lamin
occasions.
Found in the ground floor of the bahay na bato, it is where the carriages and floats are
Zaguan
kept.
This church, 1st built by the Augustinian Fr. Miguel Murguia, has an unusually large bell
Panay Capiz
which was made from approximately 70 sacks of coins donated by the towns people.
Architect of SM Megamall. Antonio Sin Diong
Central Bank of the Philippines, Manila. Gabriel Formoso
Architect of the Rizal Memorial Stadium. Juan Nakpil
The architect of the Quiapo Church before its restoration. Juan Nakpil
Built by the Franciscan priest Fr. Blas dela Madre, this church in Rizal whose design
Morong Church
depicts the heavy influence of Spanish Baroque, was declared a national treasure.
Scheme or solution of a problem in architecture. Parti
Architect of the Batasang Pambansa. Felipe Mendoza
Architect of the Philippine Heart Center. George Ramos
Founders of the "Art Noveau". John Ruskin and William Moris
Combination of the new art and the graphing of the old art. Eclecticism
Return in the use of Roman Orders in modern age. Neo-Classism
A small payer house in Egyptian architecture. Madrassah
Where "Constructivism" originated? Moscow
Expressionist Architect. Erich Mendelsohn
Male counterpart of the Caryatids. Telamones or Atlantes
Like Caryatids and Atlantes, this is a three-quarter length figures. Herms
This is a pedestal with human, animal, or mythological creatures at the top. Terms
Designer of the Bonifacio Monument. Juan Nakpil
Sculptor for the Bonifacio Monument. Guillermo Tolentino
Designer of the Taj Mahal. Shah Jahan
"Architecture is Organic". Frank Lloyd Wright
Invented reinforced concrete in France. Hennevique
First elected U.A.P. president. Jose Herrera
The large element in the frieze. Triglyph
"A is a machine to live in". Le Corbusier
Architect of the Chicago Tribune Tower. Eliel Saarinen
Egyptian Temple for popular worship of the ancient and mysterious gods. Cult Temple
A small private bath found in Roman houses or palaces. Balneum
Corresponds to the Greek naos. Cella
In the Cyma Reversa molding of the Romans, what ornaments are usually found? Acanthus and Dolphin
From what architecture is the Stoa? Greek
The Egyptian Ornament symbolizing fertility. Papyrus
In what Order is the temple of Nike Apteros, Athens. Ionic
This temple is dedicated to 'Wingless Victory'. Temple of Nike Apteros, Athens
This structure in Greece was erected by Andronikos Cyrrhestes for measuring time by
Tower of the Winds, Athens
means of a clepsydra internally and sun dial externally.
Mexican Architect/Engineer who introduced thin shell construction. Felix Outerino Candela
In the Doric Order, the shaft terminates in the ___. Hypotrachelion
In what Order is the Parthenon. Doric
The architect of the Pantheon. Agrippa
The senate house of the Greeks. Prytaneion
Architect of the Bi-Nuclear House, the H-Plan. Marcel Lajos Breuer
The Erechtheion of Mnesicles is from what architecture? Greek
The part of the Corinthian capital without flower. Balteus
The Pantheon is from what architecture. Roman
Used as food storage in the Bahay na Bato. Dispensa
The granary in traditional Bontoc House. Falig
Architect of the World Trade Center. Minoru Yamasaki
The first plan shape of the St. Peter's Basilica by Bramante. Greek Cross
The final plan shape of the St. Peter's Basilica by Carlo Maderna. Latin Cross
He erected the entrance Piazza at St. Peter's Basilica. Bernini
The term applied to the Episcopal church of the diocese and also the important structure
Cathedral
of the Gothic period.
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