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In Egyptian architecture, the tomb of the pharaohs is the.

The great pyramid at Gizeh was built during the 4th dynasty by.
The beginner of the great hypostyle hall at karnak and the founder of the 19th dynasty.
The mineral of greatest importance to Greek architecture of which Greece and her
domains had ample supply of was.
Greek architecture was essentially.
Forming the imposing entrance to the acropolis and erected by the architect Mnesicles
is the.
The building in the acropolis generally considered as being the most nearly perfect
building ever erected is the.
With the use of concrete made possible by pozzolan, a native natural cement, the
Romans achieved huge interiors with the.
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.
The finest and remaining example of Byzantine architecture.
The architectural character of the Romanesque architecture is.
Romanesque architecture in Italy is distinguished from that of the rest of Europe by the
use of what material for facing walls.
The most famous and perfect preservation of all ancient buildings in Rome.
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.
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.
Strictly, a pedestal at the corners or peak of a roof to support an ornament, more usually,
the ornament itself.
Also called a 'Honeysuckle' ornament.
In ancient Greece and Rome, a storeroom of any kind, but especially for storing wine.
The characteristic of Greek ornament.
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 ___.
The dining hall in a monastery, a convent, or a college.
The architecture of the curved line is known as ___.
The open court in an Italian palazzo.
The ornamental pattern work in stone, filling the upper part of a Gothic window.
Japanese tea house.
A Muslim temple, a mosque for public worship, also known as place for prostration.
Domical mound containing a relic.
Ifugao house (southern strain).
In Mesopotamian architecture, religion called for temples made of sun-dried bricks.
The style of the order with massive and tapering columns resting on a base of 3 steps.
Tomb of the pharaohs.
Earthen burial mounds containing upright and lintel stones forming chambers for
consecutive burials for several to a hundred persons.
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.
Senate house for chief dignitaries in Greek architecture
Architect of the Einstein Tower.
Founder of the Bauhaus School of Art.
What architectural term is termed to be free from any historical style?
From what architecture is the Angkor Vat?
The architect of Chrysler building in N.Y.
Another term for crenel or intervals between merlon of a battlement.
Taj Mahal temple is located in ___.
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
works.
Who erected the earliest known obelisk at Heliopolis.
Jubilee festivals of the pharaohs.
The world's first large-scale monument in stone.
The highest sloped pyramid in Gizeh
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?
Female statues with baskets serving as columns.
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.
A roof in which 4 faces rests diagonally between the gables and converge at the roof.
A compound bracket or capital in Japanese architecture.
A concave molding approximately quarter round.
Architect of Iglesia ni Cristo.
A Filipino architect whose philosophy is 'the structure must be well oriented'.
What is not required as a feature in modern Muslim mosque.

Pyramid
Cheops
Rameses 1
Marble
Columnar trabeated
Propylaea
Parthenon
Arch and vault
Composite
Domical roof construction
St. Sophia, Constantinople
Sober and dignified
Marble
Pantheon
Pteroma
Gladiatorial Contests
Stoa
Acropolis
Antefix (Antefixae)
Acroterion / Acroterium
Anthemion
Apotheca
Anthemion
Marble
Pisa
Refectory
Baroque
Cortel
Tracery
Cha-sit-su
Masjid
Stupa
Bale
Ziggurat
Doric
Pyramid
Tumuli
Apse
Dipteral
Prytaneion
Erich Mendelsohn
Walter Gropius
Art Noveau
Cambodian
Van Alen
Embrasures
Agra
Amenemhat I
Senusret I
Heb-sed
Pyramid of Zoser
Pyramid of Khufu
Groin Vault
Visayan
Greek
Canephora
Bartizan
Basilica
Greek
Helm Roof
Masu-gumi
Cavetto
Carlos Santos Viola
Caesar Homer Concio
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Architect of Robinson's Galleria

Major contribution of the Renaissance Architecture.
"A house is like a flower pot"
Richly carved coffins of Greece and Mesopotamia.
King Zoser's architect who was deified in the 26th dynasty.
The council house in Greece.
Elizabethan Architecture is from what architecture.
Art Noveau style first appeared in what structure.
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.
First school which offered architecture in the Philippines.
Embrasures.
Formal architecture, one of the principles of composition.
Different historical styles combined.
Architect of TWA airport.
The falling water by Frank Lloyd Wright is also known as ___.
First president and founder of PAS.
"Modern architecture need not be western".
Architect of the national library, Philippines.
The xerxes hall of hundred columns was introduced during the Mesopotamian
architecture, which palace was it used.
Taj Mahal is a building example of what architecture.
The convex projecting molding of eccentric curve supporting the abacus of a Doric capital.
Pantiles used for Chinese roofings.
Greek equivalent of the Roman forum, a place of open air assembly or market.
A slight vertical curvature in the shaft of a column.
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.
"cubicula" or bedroom is from what architecture.
From the Greek forms of temple, the three where it lies is known as ___.
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.

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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.
In Greek temples, the equivalent of the crypt is the ___.
The tomb beneath a church.
A raised stage reserved for the clergy in early Christian churches.
A decorative bracket usually taking the form of a cyma reversa strap.
Semi-palatial house surrounded by an open site.
A roman house with a central patio.
Revival of classical Roman style
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,
and powerful vaults, and lasting until the advent of Gothic architecture.
Architect and furniture designer.
First registered architect in the Philippines.
The public square of imperial Rome.
Architect of Manila Hilton Hotel.
Finest example of French-Gothic architecture
How many stained glass are there in the Chartres Cathedral?
Agora is from what architecture?
Sacred artificial mountains of Babylon and Assyria.
A plant whose leaves form the lower portions of the Corinthian capital.
Structure of wedge-shaped blocks over an opening.
The space between the sloping roof over the aisle and the aisle vaulting, so also called
a blind story.
A windowed wall that rises above the roof of adjacent walls that admit light into the
interior.
A standard, usually of length, by which the proportions of a building are determined.
The triangular or segmental space enclosed by a pediment or arch.
A line of counterthrusting arches on columns or piers.
In the classical order, the lowest part or member of the entablature; the beam that spans
from column to column.
In classical architecture, the elaborated beam member carried by the columns.

126 Parts of an entablature, in order of top to bottom.

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Plan shape of a Chinese pagoda.

Usual number of stories for a Chinese pagoda.
A special feature of Japanese houses, used to display a flower arrangement or art.
Plan shape of a Japanese pagoda.
The most famous structure of Byzantine architecture and notable of its large dome.
Triangular piece of wall above the entablature.

William Cosculluela
Baroque for of Ornamentation
Richard Josef Neutra
Sarcophagus
Imhotep
Bouleuterion
U.S. / English Renaissance
Tussel House
Astylar
Jugendstijl
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Liceo de Manila
Crenel
Balance
Eclecticism
Eero Saarinen
Kaufman House
Juan Nakpil
Kenzo Tange
Felipe Mendoza
Palace of Persepolis
Saracenic Architecture
Echinus
S-tiles
Agora
Entasis
Baroque
Pagoda
Roman
Crepidoma
Amphi-Prostyle
Cenotaphs
Cheops
Chefren
Mykerinos
Aljibe
Impluvium
Naos
Crypt
Bema
Console
Villa
Atrium House
Romanesque
Romanesque
Alvar Aalto
Tomas Mapua
Forum
Welton Becket
Chartres Cathedral
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Ziggurat
Acanthus
Arch
Triforium
Clerestory
Module
Tympanum
Arcade
Architrave
Entablature
Cornice
Frieze
Architrave
Octagonal
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Tokonama
Square
Hagia Sophia
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133 A spherical triangle forming the transition from the circular plan of a dome to the polygonal plan of its supporting structure.
134 A long arcaded entrance porch in an early Christian church.
135 The principal or central part of a church, extending from the narthex to the choir or
chancel and usually flanked by aisles.
136 The covered walk of an atrium.
137 A basin for ritual cleansing with water in the atrium of an early Christian basilica.
138 A large apsidal extension of the interior volume of a church.
139 An ornamental canopy of stone or marble permanently place over the altar in a church.
140 A decorative niche often topped with a canopy and housing a statue.
141 A recess in a wall to contain a statue or other small items.
142 A tower in the Muslim Mosque used to call people to prayer.
143 Coffers, sunken panels in the ceiling.
144 The Buddhist temple in ancient Cambodia which feature four faces of the compassionate
Buddha.
145 A term given to the mixture of Christian, Spanish, and Muslim 12th-16th century
architecture.
146 Projecting blocks of stone carved with foliage, typical in Gothic architecture.
147 A slab forming the crowning member of the capital.
148 The crowning member of a column.
149 A rectangular or square slab supporting the column at the base.
150 A low screen wall enclosing the choir in early Christian church.
151 The cold section of a Roman Bath.
152 This church in the Philippines is the seat of the Malolos Congress.
153 The palace proper in Assyrian palaces.
154 Holy mountains.
155 Architect of the famous propylaea, Acropolis.
156 Private family apartments in Assyrian palaces.
157 The most stupendous and impressive of the rock-cut-temples.
158 The four-seated colossal statues of Rameses II is carved in the pylon of the ___.
159 Favorite motifs of design of the Egyptians.
160 Two main classes of temples in Egyptian Architecture.
161 Egyptian temples for ministrations to deified pharaohs.
162 Structure whose corners are made to face the four cardinal points.
163 Structure whose sides are made to face the four cardinal points.
164 Egyptian temples for the popular worship of the ancient and the mysterious gods.
165 The use of monsters in doorways is prevalent in what architecture?
166 The Greek male statues used as columns.
167 A recessed or alcove with raised seats where disputes took place.
168 A single line of columns surrounding the Naos.
169 The uppermost step in the crepidoma.
170 The lowest step in the crepidoma.
171 A building in Greek and Roman for exercises or physical activities.
172 The three chamber of a Greek temple.
173 A Greek building that contains painted pictures.
174 Temple with a portico of columns arranged in front.
175 The clear space in between columns.
176 Intercolumniation of 2.25 diameters.
177 Intercolumniation of 4 diameters.
178 Intercolumniation of 2 diameters.
179 Pycnostyle intercolumniation has how many diameters?
180 Diastyle intercolumniation has how many diameters.
181 A kindred type to the theater.
182 Roman building which is a prototype of the hippodrome of the Greek.
183 Roman building for which gladiatorial battles took place.
184 What sporting event takes place in the Palaestra?
185 A foot race course in the cities.
186 A temple with 1-4 columns arranged between antae at the front.
187 A temple with 1-4 columns arranged between antae at the front and rear.
188 In Greek, it is the Roman prototype of the Thermae.
189 Greek order that has no base.
190 The most beautiful and best preserved of the Greek theaters.
191 What orders did the Etruscans and the Romans add making 5 in all?
192 What allowed the Romans to build vaults of a magnitude never equaled till the birth of
steel for buildings.
The finest of all illustrations of Roman construction.
193 The oldest and most important forum in Rome.
194 Who commenced the 'hall of hundred columns'?
195 Who completed the 'hall of hundred columns'?
196 Architects of the Parthenon.
197 Master sculptor of the Parthenon.
198 In Roman fountains, the large basin of water.
199 Spouting jets in Roman fountain.
200 The oldest circus in Rome.
201 The colosseum in Rome also known as the "flavian amphitheater" was commenced by
whom and completed by whom?
202 Architect of the Erechtheion.
203 A water clock or an instrument for measuring time by the use of water.

Pendentive
Narthex
Nave
Ambulatory
Cantharus
Exedra
Baldachino
Tabernacle
Niche
Minaret
Lacunaria
Bayon
Mudejar
Crocket
Abacus
Capital
Plinth
Chancel
Frigidarium
Barasoain Church
Seraglio
Ziggurat
Mnesicles
Harem
Great Temple, Abu Simbel
Great Temple, Abu Simbel
Palm, Lotus, and Papyrus
Mortuary and Cult Temples
Mortuary Temple
Ziggurat
Pyramid
Cult Temple
Persian
Atlantes
Exedra
Peripteral
Stylobate
Stereobate
Gymnasium
Pronaos, Naos, and Epinaos
Pinacotheca
Prostyle
Intercolumniation
Eustyle
Areostyle
Systyle
1.5 Diameters
3 Diameters
Odeion
Circus
Colosseum
Wrestling
stadium
In Antis
Amphi-Antis
Gymnasium
Doric
Epidauros
Tuscan and Composite
Use of Concrete
Pantheon
Forum Romanum
Xerxes
Artaxerxes
Callicrates and Ictinus
Phidias
Lacus
Salientes
Circus Maximus
Vespasian / Domitian
Mnesicles
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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.
Roman architect of the Greek Temples of Zeus, Olympius.
Both the regula and the mutule has guttae numbering a total of ___.
A quadrigas is a ___.
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 ___".
One of the best examples of a surviving megaron type of Greek domestic building.
The molding that is often found in the Doric Order.
The wall or colonnade enclosing the Temenos
The private house of the Romans.
Roman rectangular temples stood on a ___.
Roman large square tiles.
A type of Roman wall facing with alternating courses of brickworks.
A type of Roman wall facing which is made of small stone laid in a loose pattern roughly
resembling polygonal work.
A type of Roman wall facing with a net-like effect.
A type of roman wall facing with rectangular block with or without mortar joints.
A Roman structure used as hall of justice and commercial exchanges.
A type of monument erected to support a tripod, as a prize for athletic exercises or
musical competitions in Greek festivals.
A type of ornament in classic or renaissance architecture consisting of an assemblage
of straight lines intersecting at right angles, and of various patterns.
Figures of which the upper parts alone are carved, the rest running into a parallelopiped
or diminishing pedestal.
Marble mosaic pattern used on ceilings of vaults and domes.
Conceptualized the Corinthian capital.
The sleeping room of the 'megaron'.
The origin of the door architrave.
The atrium type of house originated with the ___.
Roman apartment blocks.
A building in classic architecture decorated with flowers and plants with water for the
purpose of relaxation.
!5th to 18th century architecture.
"Form follows function".
The dominating personality who became an ardent disciple of the Italian renaissance
style.
A pillared hall in which the roofs rests on the column in Egyptian temples.
Who began the building of the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak?
Architect of the Great Serapeum at Alexandria.
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.
The warm room in the Thermae.
The Hot room of the Thermae.
The cold or unheated pool in the Thermae.
The dry or sweating room in the Thermae.
The dressing room of the Thermae.
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 ___.
Orientation of the Medieval Church.
The space for the clergy and choir is separated by a low screen wall from the body of the
church called ___.
On either side of the choir, pulpits for the reading of the epistle and the gospel are
called.
In some churches, there is a part which is raised as part of the sanctuary which later
developed into the transept, this is the ___.
In early Christian churches, the bishop took the central place at the end of the church
called ___.
The iconoclastic movement during the Byzantine period forbade the use of ___.
Type of plan of the Byzantine churches.
Architects of the Hagia Sophia. (St. Sophia, Constantinople)
The supreme monument of Byzantine architecture.
Smallest cathedral in the world. (Byzantine period)

262 One of the few churches of its type to have survived having a square nave and without
cross-arms, roofed by a dome which spans to the outer walls of the building.
263 A tower raised above a roof pierced to admit light.
the covered passage around an open space or garth, connecting the church to the chapter
house, refectory and other parts of the monastery.
264 The prominent feature of the facades in Romanesque Central Italy.
265 The best example of a German Romanesque church with apses at both east and west
ends.

Treasury of Atreus
Theron
Libon
Cossutius
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4-horse Chariot
Cyma Reversa
Key Pattern
Sculptured Reliefs
House #33
Bird's Beak
Peribolus
Domus
Podium
Bepidales
Opus Mixtum
Opus Incertum
Opus Recticulatum
Opus Quadratum
Basilica
Choragic Monument
Fret
Termini
Opus Tesselatum
Callimachus
Thalamus
Timber-enframed Portal
Etruscans
Insula
Nymphaeum
Renaissance
Louis Sullivan
Iigo Jones
Hypostyle Hall
Thothmes I
Ptolemy III
Buckminster Fuller
Rock-Hewn Tombs
George Ramos
Tepidarium
Calidarium
Frigidarium
Sudatorium
Apodyteria
Unctuaria
Forum
East
South
West
Cancelli
Ambo
Bema
Apse
Statues
Centralized
Anthemius and Isidorus
St. Sophia, Constantinople
Little Metropole Cath., Athens
Nea Moni
Lantern
Cloisters
Ornamental Arcades
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266 The term applied to the Episcopal church of the diocese and also the important structure
of the Gothic period.
267 The first plan shape of the St. Peter's Basilica by Bramante.
268 The final plan shape of the St. Peter's Basilica by Carlo Maderna.
269 He erected the entrance Piazza at St. Peter's Basilica.
270 Used as food storage in the Bahay na Bato.
271 The granary in traditional Bontoc House.
272 Architect of the World Trade Center.
273 The Erechtheion of Mnesicles is from what architecture?
274 The part of the Corinthian capital without flower.
275 The Pantheon is from what architecture.
276 The architect of the Pantheon.
277 The senate house of the Greeks.
278 Architect of the Bi-Nuclear House, the H-Plan.
279 Mexican Architect/Engineer who introduced thin shell construction.
280 In the Doric Order, the shaft terminates in the ___.
281 In what Order is the Parthenon.
282 In what Order is the temple of Nike Apteros, Athens.
283 This temple is dedicated to 'Wingless Victory'.
284 This structure in Greece was erected by Andronikos Cyrrhestes for measuring time by
means of a clepsydra internally and sun dial externally.
285 In the Cyma Reversa molding of the Romans, what ornaments are usually found?
286 From what architecture is the Stoa?
287 The Egyptian Ornament symbolizing fertility.
288 Egyptian Temple for popular worship of the ancient and mysterious gods.
289 A small private bath found in Roman houses or palaces.
290 Corresponds to the Greek naos.
291 The large element in the frieze.
292 "A is a machine to live in".
293 Architect of the Chicago Tribune Tower.
294 "Architecture is Organic".
295 Invented reinforced concrete in France.
296 First elected U.A.P. president.
297 Designer of the Bonifacio Monument.
298 Sculptor for the Bonifacio Monument.
299 Designer of the Taj Mahal.
300 Male counterpart of the Caryatids.
301 Like Caryatids and Atlantes, this is a three-quarter length figures.
302 This is a pedestal with human, animal, or mythological creatures at the top.
303 A small payer house in Egyptian architecture.
304 Where "Constructivism" originated?
305 Expressionist Architect.
306 Founders of the "Art Noveau".
307 Combination of the new art and the graphing of the old art.
308 Return in the use of Roman Orders in modern age.
309 Scheme or solution of a problem in architecture.
310 Architect of the Batasang Pambansa.
311 Architect of the Philippine Heart Center.
312 Architect of the Rizal Memorial Stadium.
313 The architect of the Quiapo Church before its restoration.
314 Built by the Franciscan priest Fr. Blas dela Madre, this church in Rizal whose design
depicts the heavy influence of Spanish Baroque, was declared a national treasure.
315 This church, 1st built by the Augustinian Fr. Miguel Murguia, has an unusually large bell
which was made from approximately 70 sacks of coins donated by the towns people.
316 Architect of SM Megamall.
317 Central Bank of the Philippines, Manila.
318 G.S.I.S. Building, Roxas Boulevard.
319 The tower atop the torogan where the princess and her ladies in waiting hide during
occasions.
320 Found in the ground floor of the bahay na bato, it is where the carriages and floats are
kept.
321 The emergency hideout found directly behind the neadboard of the Sultan's bed.
322 The flat, open terrace open to the toilet, bath, and kitchen areas and also used as a
laundry and drying space and service area for the servants.
323 In the kitchen of the bahay kubo, the table on top of which is the river stone, shoe-shaped
stove or kalan is known as ___.

Cathedral
Greek Cross
Latin Cross
Bernini
Dispensa
Falig
Minoru Yamasaki
Greek
Balteus
Roman
Agrippa
Prytaneion
Marcel Lajos Breuer
Felix Outerino Candela
Hypotrachelion
Doric
Ionic
Temple of Nike Apteros, Athens
Tower of the Winds, Athens
Acanthus and Dolphin
Greek
Papyrus
Cult Temple
Balneum
Cella
Triglyph
Le Corbusier
Eliel Saarinen
Frank Lloyd Wright
Hennevique
Jose Herrera
Juan Nakpil
Guillermo Tolentino
Shah Jahan
Telamones or Atlantes
Herms
Terms
Madrassah
Moscow
Erich Mendelsohn
John Ruskin and William Moris
Eclecticism
Neo-Classism
Parti
Felipe Mendoza
George Ramos
Juan Nakpil
Juan Nakpil
Morong Church
Panay Capiz
Antonio Sin Diong
Gabriel Formoso
George Ramos
Lamin
Zaguan
Bilik
Azotea
Dapogan

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