THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE

1. It is a comparison showing differences, the opposite of similarity.

a. rhythm b. character c. proportion d. contrast
2. The most important kind of character in architecture is that which result from the
purpose of the building or reason of erection.
a. proportion b. contrast c. functional character d. personal character
3. Most elementary means of organizing forms and spaces in architecture.
a. balance b. axis c. scale d. character
4. Characterized by an arrangement where all the part radiate from a center like the
spikes in a wheel.
a. radial b. formal c. centralized d. unsymmetrical
5. It means equality.
a. rhythm b. contrast c. formal d. balance
6. It gives a feeling of grandeur, dignity and monumentality.
a. centralized b. radial c. scale d. balance
7. When lines, planes, and surface treatments are repeated in a regular sequence.
a. balance b. rhythm c. contrast d. proportion
8. A kind of character that came from the influence of ideas and impressions related to or
growing out of past experience.
a. associated char. b. personal char. c. character d. functional char.
9. It is evident by a comparison which the eye makes between the size, shape and tone of
a various object or part of a competition.
a. proportion b. rhythm c. scale d. balance
10. Deals with the relationship between the different parts of the whole to the various
parts.
a. relative proportion b. absolute proportion c. proportion d. balance
11. It bears a certain relation to the same attribute to the life of an individual.
a. functional char. b. relative proportion c. personal char. d. balance
12. These systems are based on the dimension and proportion of the human body.
a. proportion b. balance c. anthropometric d. anthropomorphic proportion
13. The size and proportion of an element appear to have relative to other elements of
known or assumed size.
a. visual scale b. mechanical scale c. generic scale d. human scale
14. Kind of rhythm where equally spaced windows are introduced on the broken wall,
then regular repetition is presented.
a. accented rhythm b. unaccented rhythm c. rhythm of motion d. rhythm
15. The size of a building element or space relative to the dimensions and proportion of
human body.
a. generic scale b. visual scale c. human scale d. mechanical scale
16. The art and science of building design and construction.
a. architecture b. theory c. visual scale d. rhythm
17. Who said that “The magnificent display of volume put together in the light”
a. Adolf Hitler b. Frank Gehry c. Louis Kahn d. Le Corbusier
18. That which the eye identifies, the mind perceives and interprets.
a. shape b. texture c. form d. orientation
19. With respect to an observer.
a. size b. orientation c. visual inertia d. position
20. A series of form arranged in sequence in a row.
a. clustered form b. linear form c. radial form d. grid form
21. A set of modular forms related and regulated by 3D grid.
a. linear form b. radial form c. grid form d. cluster form
22. Subtracting a portion of a forms volume to create another.
a. subtracting transformation b. additive transformation
c. subtractive transformation d. dimensional transformation
23. This refer to the manner in which the surface of a form come together to define its
shape and volume.
a. articulation of form b. form
c. clustered form d. architecture
24. Who said “The will of the epoch translated into space’
a. Adolf Hitler b. Le Corbusier c. Ching d. Jamandri

25. A composition of linear forms extending outward from a central form in a radial manner.
a. linear form b. clustered form c. radial form d. centralized form
26. Architecture is generally conceived, designed and realized.
a. design process b. articulation c. form d. theory
27. A number of secondary forms clustered about a dominant, centra-perceive form.
a. linear b. clustered c. centralized d. grid form
28. One or more dimension are altered but will retain its identity.
a. subtractive b. dimensional trans. c. additive trans. d. NOTA
29. A collection of forms grouped together by proximity or the sharing of a common
visual trait.
a. grid form b. clustered form c. radial form d. linear form
30. Can be regular or irregular, primary characteristic that identifies.
a. size b. color c. orientation d. shape
31-37. (7) composition of design
38-40. (3) types of character
41-42.(2) kinds of rhythm
43-45. (3) types of balance
46. Is the most famous for the eye catching tower he constructed in Paris for the
exposition universally of 1889 work of Eiffel tower.
a.Alexandre Gustav Eiffel
b. Alexander Gustav Eiffel
c. Alex Gustav Eiffel
47. One of the pioneers of the modern movement in American architecture. Work
auditorium building, U.S.
a. Daniel Burnham
b. Louis Henry Sullivan
c. William Le Baron Jenney
48. Arch of the famous Twin Tower World Trade Center.
a. Yamasaki and Roth
b. I.M. Pei
c. Brunelleschi
49. One of the most sublime painters and sculpture and one of the most influential
architect and draft man.
a. Michael Angelo
b. Palazzo Ducale
c. Richard Kipling
50. The influential architect born in 1508 I Padua. He designed the Palazzo Chierecati,
Vicencia, Italy. Known as the grandest town residence.
a. Holland
b. Andrea di Pietro Della Gondola
c. Andrea Palladio
51. Scottish architect and designer who was prominent in the arts and crafts movement in
Great Britain.
a. Charles Mackintosh c. Peter Behrens
b. Robert Adam d. Mies Van de Rohe
52. Received the “Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinanagan “award for the city of manila, who
is the architect?
a. Philip Recto c. Juan Nakpil
b. Tomas Mapua e. Antonio Toledo
53. In 1989 he received the prtzker prize commonly referred to as “The Noble of
Architecture” the loftiest recognition. It is a lifetime achievement award granted to
living architect whose body of work represents a superlative contribution to the field.
a. Minoru Yamasaki c. Frank Gehry
b. Renzo Piano d. Kenzo Tange
54. His first designs were drawings of fantastic architectural visions in steel and glass as
well as costume and poster design.
a. Norman Foster c. Ieoh Ming Pei
b. Frank Gehry d. Erich Mendelsohn
55. Much of his works has been described as post modern, since he rejected the excessive
abstractionism of architects such as Le Corbusier and strove instead to incorporate the
valid elements of older style.
a. Kahn, Louis c. Ieoh Ming Pei
b. Maxwell, Fry d. Marcel Breuer
56. Spanish architects, one of the most creative practitioners of his art in modern times.
His style is often described as a blend of neo-gothic and art nouveau, but is also has
surrealist and cubist elements.
a. Marcel Breuer c. Adolf Loos
b. Antonio Gaudi d. Lucio Costa
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57. One of the world’s 1 futurist and global thinkers. His 1927 decision to work always
and only for all humanity led him to address the largest global problems of poverty,
disease and homelessness.
a. Kenzo Tange c. Buckminster Fuller
b. Daniel Burnham d. Frank Gehry
58. In his practice he explores the use of indigenous materials infused with current
technological trends to bring a new dimension in designs.
a. Tomas Mapua c. Juan Nakpil
b. Leandro Locsin d. Francisco Manosa
59. Afterwards became deeply involved in the design and building of French railways
and bridges. He worked on structures such as bridge across the Garonne River, train
stations at Toulouse and again in France.
a. Gustave Eiffel c. Ieoh Ming Pei
b. Norman Foster d. Alvar Aalto
60. He has actively promoted the use of native architectural forms and indigenous
nationals such as bamboo and thatch, in the creation of a distinctively Filipino
architecture.
a. Philip Recto c. Juan Nakpil
b. Francisco Manosa d. Antonio Toledo
61. French-born, Brazilian architect and urban planner.
a. Daniel Burnham c. Lucio Costa
b. Oscar Niemeyer d. Eliel Saarinen
62. This famous axiom “Each one sees whatever he wishes to see” belongs to,
a. Daniel Burnham c. Oscar Niemeyer
b. Peter Behrens d. Lucio Costa
63. This philosophy “When change needs, asks a stranger” belongs to,
a. Peter Behrens c. Oscar Niemeyer
b. Marcel Breuer d. Robert Adams
64. He was the architect in his time that receives his license as award at his 60’s or at the
age of 60 yrs. old.
a Louis Sullivan c. Antonio Gaudi
b. Buckminster Fuller d. Paul Rudolf
65. An important Scottish architect who was particularly known for his interiors based on
classical decoration.
a. Mackintosh Charles c. Robert Adam
b. Marcel Breuer d. Mies van de Rohe
66. To whom does this philosophy belongs to, “Where the architects task is to restore a
 correct order of values… it is still the architects duty to attempt to humanize age of
machines. But this should not be done without regard for form”
a. Peter Behrens c. Marcel Breuer
b. Oscar Niemeyer d. Alvar Aalto
67. His insistence on the importance of design and formal expression in our lives, and his
adept handling of materials, light and space, explained why he is one of the great
architects of the 20th century.
a. Alvar Aalto c. Richard Meier
b. Robert Adam d. Renzo Piano
68. He was called “Masters master” where his students are architects like Gropius, Breuer
and Van de Rohe.
a. Eric Mendelsohn c. Frank Lloyd Wright
b. Peter Behrens d. Vitruvius
69. A German architect who uses more representational styles which has been called
“Scrapped Classicism”
a. Robert Adam c. Peter Behrens
b. Daniel Burnham d. Alvar Aalto
70. Architect of the “Reliance Building” in Chicago.
a. Eero Saarinen c. Eliel Saarinen
b. Oscar Niemeyer d. Daniel Burnham
71. This famous dictum, “I am neither a capitalist nor a socialist, I am not a religious or
an atheist” belongs to.
a. Lucio Costa c. Pier Luigi Nervi
b. Buckminster Fuller d. Oscar Niemeyer
72. Architect who leads the development of the ‘Quezon Memorial Circle” in Quezon City.
a. Juan Nakpil c. Francisco Manosa
b. Froilan Hong d. Philip Recto
73. Eiffel tower I Paris stands.
a. 982 ft. c. 984 ft.
b. 983 ft. d. 985 ft.
74. “Starting with holes” belongs to architect
a. Mies van de Rohe c. Renzo Piano
b. Oscar Niemeyer d. Buckminster Fuller
75. “A house is a machine to live in” philosophy belongs to
a. Le Corbusier c. Frank Lloyd Wright
b. Peter Behrens d. Louis Sullivan
76. He paid great attention to the detailing of the structure, which he attributed to his
father’s teachings about craftsmanship.
a. Robert Adams c. Antonio Gaudi
b. Mies van de Rohe d. Frank Gehry
77. One of his stylish choice which are circles and squares were used in his design
solutions.
a. Buckminster Fuller c. Richard Meier
b. Oscar Niemeyer d. Pier Luigi Nervi
78. His contributions where the advocacy of the idea of planning rooms by volume.
a. Oscar Niemeyer c. Marcel Breuer
b. Lucio Costa d. Adolf Loos
79. His solutions to building problem were always direct, transmitting to the ground by
the shortest path the stresses developed within the structures.
a. Nervi, Pier Luigi c. Alvar, Aalto
b. Candela, Felix d. Mackintosh, Charles
80. Father of modern architectural movement in Brazil.
a. Felix Candela c. Oscar Niemeyer
b. Lucio Costa d. Adolf Loos
81. “A city is subjected to growth, delay and rebuilt” belongs to,
a. Daniel Burnham c. Kenzo Tange
 b. Renzo Piano d. Frank Gehry
82. An architect who is deeply concerned with architectural details and the craftsmanship
that goes into them. Emphasis is often laid on the repetition of industrialized
“modular units” in his work.
a. Renzo Piano c. Sir Norman Foster
b. Frank Gehry d. Michael Groves
83. Architect of the “Reichstag” in Berlin ( Frankfort commerce bank building)
a. Buckminster Fuller c. Norman Foster
b. Ludwig van de Rohe d. Frank Gehry
84. Approach each building; as a sculptural object, a spatial container, a space with light
and air, a response to context and appropriateness of feeling and spirit.
a. Louis Sullivan c. Frank Gehry
b. Norman Foster d. Frank Lloyd Wright
85. Architect of the “Rockwell center”
a. Daniel Burnham c. Felino Palafox
b. Francisco Manosa d. Leandro Locsin
86. Whose famous dictum/ philosophy is this “A house is a machine for living”
a. Alvar Aalto c. Le Corbusier
b. Frank Lloyd Wright d. Robert Venturi
87. Whose famous axiom is this, “Design as if you were a child”
a. Alvar Aalto c. Renzo Piano
b. Kenzo Tange d. Antonio Gaudi
88. Whose famous dictum is this, “Unity disguised as chaos,complexity & contradiction are
often what make works of art both exciting and profound.”
a. Renzo Piano c. Kenzo Tange
b. Norman Foster d. Louis Kahn
89. Architect of the London’s “Stansteed airport” which seem like a celebration of flight itself.
a. Renzo Piano c. Norman Foster
b. Lucio Costa d. Frank Gehry
90. Architect of the ‘Centre Pompidou” in Paris.
a. Richard Rogers c. Renzo Piano
b. Kenzo Tange d. Frank Gehry
91. The world’s largest entertainment shopping center at Alberta, Canada. Has 127 acre with a
floor area of 5.2 million sq. meters. It also ha more than 800 stores and 11 major department
stores.
a. Megamall c. West Edmonton Mall
b. Shanghai Complex Mall d. Oklahoma New Stare mall
92. Architect of the “PHIVOLCS” building in C.P. Garcia Ave., Diliman, Quezon City
a. Willliam Coscolluela c. Froilan Hong
b. Francisco Manosa d. Felino Palafox
93. Finnish architect, who by preserving a rigor from Art Nouveau and never quite succumbing
to the full sentiment, produced extracting structures and restraint.
a. Candela, Felix c. Saarinen, Eliel
b. Costa. Lucio d. Maxwell, Fry
94. Architect at the “ One San Miguel Avenue”
a. Leandro Locsin c. Philip Recto
b. Francisco Manosa d. Froilan Hong
95. Pre-occupied with the notion of an industrialized “plug-in” city, he has devised schemes in
which mobile residence pods are plugged into a steel frame which connects to mechanical
and electrical services.
a. Daniel Burnham c. Paul Rudolph
b. Pier Luigi Nervi d. Oscar Niemeyer
96. Brazil’s best known and most important modern architect. From 1956 to 1964 he designed
the major buildings for Brasilia the futuristic new capital of Brazil.
a. Richard Meier c. Oscar Niemeyer
b. Adolf Loos d. Pier Nervi Luigi
97. Discovered new facilities in the interplay of volumes, planes, levels and better relationship of
the light and view which is one his style in design.
a. Felix Candela c. Oscar Niemeyer
b. Adolf Loos d. Louis Sullivan
98. Frequently works on a large scale and is renowned for his sharp, geometric designs.
a. Renzo Piano c. Ieoh Ming Pei
b. Frank Gehry d. Paul Rudolph
99. Is renowned for his technical ingenuity and dramatic sense of design, especially to large span
structures built of reinforced concrete.
a. Renzo Piano c. Pier Luigi Nervi
b. Felix Candela d. Eliel Saarinen
100. Architect of the first sky scraper in Italy, The Pirelli Building. (1955) in Milan, a
collaborative design.
a. Kenzo Tange c. Pier Luigi Nervi
b. Felix Candela d. Paul Rudolph
101. Architect who contributed the use of reinforcement concrete flames and large areas of
glazing (glass) where we applied today.
a. Fry Maxwell c. Adolf Loos
b. Norman Foster d. Felix Candela
102. “Almost is nothing” philosophy of architect?
a. Peter Behrens c. Mies van de Rohe
b. Adolf Loos d. Fry Maxwell
103. His work was with simple forms, the distillation from history and the order of industrial
techniques, this designs of bold, pure, simple forms offered both architectural integrity and
structural honesty.
a. Peter Behrens c. Mies van de Rohe
b. Adolf Loos d. Fry Maxwell
104. Architecture is decorated construction not constructed decoration” is an architect
philosophy named?
a. Fry Maxwell c. Mackintosh Charles
b. Adolf Loos d. Mies van de Rohe
105. Architect of “ De la Salle University building” on Taft Avenue.
a. Antonio Toledo c. Tomas Mapua
b. Juan Villegas d. Phillip Recto
106. “Architecture seizes upon space encompasses space and is space itself’ belongs to,
a. Gustave Eiffel c. Erich Mendelsohn
b. Walter Gropius d. Robert Adam
107. Architect of “ Salt Institute for Biological Studies, in La Jolla, California
a. Robert Adam c. Louis Kahn
b. Peter Behrens d. Fry Maxwell
108. “Design Science” is a philosophy of architect?
a. Alvar Aalto c. Buckminster Fuller
b. Paul Rudolph d. Mies van de Rohe
109. Architect of “Our Lady” at EDSA shrine of the 1986 Filipino Revolution.
a. Philip Recto c. Francisco Manosa
b. William Coscolluela d. William Parsons
110. “Everything started with the Nipa Hut” belongs to
a. Leandro Locsin c. Francisco Manosa
b. Remigio Esguerra d. Froilan Hong
111. His ability to select and use motifs from the classical antique in an original way led to his
success, and his interior designs are one of the finest expressions of 18th century artistic
achievement.
a. Peter Behrens c. Alberti Lean Battista
b. Mies van de Rohe d. Robert Adam
112. transformed the renaissance tradition of the universal artist-genius into the style which came
to be known as Baroque- a fusion of the arts of archre, sculpture and painting to create new
 forms which above all created a dramatic impact and involved the spectator.
a. Borromini Fransesco c. Bernini Giovanni Lorenzo
b. Bartning Otto d. Robert Adam
113. The youngest of the pioneer modernists, was instrumental in shifting the bias of the
Bauhaus from the Arts and Crafts” to Art and technology.
a. Peter Behrens c. Robert Adam
b. Marcel Breuer d. Alvar Aalto
114. Architect, sculptor and engineer who was the main initiator of stylistic changes in
Renaissance archre. The engineering feat represented by the cupola of Florence cathedral
staggered by his contemporaries.
a. Brunelleschi Fillippo c. Bernini Lorenzo
b. Borromini Fransesco d. Antonio Gaudi
115. Architect of the UNESCO building in Paris which the striking feature of this complex is the
enormous “Y” shaped office and conference room block.
a. Cass Gilbert c. Alvar Aalto
b. Robert Adam d. Marcel Breuer
116. Architect and painter, one of the personalities of Italian renaissance archre. Already in his
early works he changed conventional archre space by inserting illusionist features more
typical of painting and storage settings.
a. Brunelleschi Fillippo c. Bramante Donato
b. Leonardo da Vinci d. Bernini Lorenzo
117. Nicknamed “The Shell builder” because of his extensive exploration of the structural
possibilities of lightweight concrete roof construction, often using complex curve forms to
exploit the tensile strengths within this versatile material.
a. Frank Lloyd Wright c. Pier Luigi Nervi
b. Felix Candela d. Eliel Saarinen
118. Architect of the “Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts”, Norwich.
a. Norman Foster c. Renzo Piano
b. Kenzo Tange d. Paul Rudolph
119. One of his strangest work is a fish-shaped restaurant in Japan called “Fishdance’
a. Fumihiko Maki c. Kenzo Tange
b. Minoru Yamasaki d. Frank Gehry
120. American architect who designed one of the first sky scrapers in New York and the designer
of the Woolworth building which was built in 1911-13.
a. Henry Louis Sullivan c. Cass Gilbert
b. Daniel Burnham d. Minoru Yamasaki
121. His work evolved away from concern with the roots of modernism towards a wide ranging
borrowing from architectural history.
a. Le Corbusier c. Henry Sullivan
b. Michael Graves d. Richard Meier
122. Founder of the Bauhaus
a. Gropius Walter c. Peter Behrens
b. Le Corbusier d. Adolf Meier
123. His architecture is notable for its simple, platonic forms and compositions through the use
of bricks and poured concrete/ poured in place concrete masonry. He developed a
contemporary archre of great power and monumentality.
a. Henry Louis Sullivan c. Felix Candela
b. Mies van de Rohe d. Louis Kahn
124. Architect of the pilgrimage chapel of Notre dame de Haut at Ronchamp.
a. Louis Sullivan c. Le Corbusier
b. Fry Maxwell d. Paul Rudolph
125. Maison Domino, basic building diagram, a prototype for mass production with free standing
pillars and rigid over sailing floors belongs to?
a. Frank Lloyd Wright c. Lucio Costa
b. Le Corbusier d. Norman Foster
126. Although he built little or nothing, he has many architectural drawings reveal a new concern
 with form that anticipates the high renaissance style of Bramante in Rome and in particular
the designs for the New St. Peters.
a. Leonardo da Vinci c. Bramante Donato
b. Fillippo Brunelleschi d. Bernini Lorenzo
127. Outstanding Scottish architect, furniture designer and painter, seen as a pioneer of the
Modern Movement and perhaps more importantly, as the greatest flowering of the British
Arts and Crafts movement.
a. Lucio Costa c. Robert Adam
b. Paul Rudolph d. Charles Mackintosh
128. His manner of design working up an architectural design/idea from an expressionistic type
sketch as well as his personal philosophy of “Dynamism” at a very early stage an attitude to
design that was both idiosyncratic and brilliant.
a. Charles Mackintosh c. Erich Mendelsohn
b. Richard Meier d. Paul Rudolph
129. Architect of the “Seagram building” New York
a. Walter Gropius c. Louis Sullivan
b. Mies van de Rohe d. Cesar Pelli
130. German architect who was responsible for bringing the tent into the 20th century, it was his
special gift to see minimal lightweight structure as liberating and a bridge to natural or
organic structure.
a. Frei Otto c. Eero Saarinen
b. Fry Maxwell d. Michael Graves
131. U.S. based architect, known best for his vast shimmering towers used as corporate
headquarters. He describes himself as a “pragmatist” who feels that there is strength and
energy flowing in everything including the energy in his projects themselves/
a. Daniel Burnham c. Frank Gehry
b. Mies van de Rohe d. Cesar Pelli
132. Leading Italian architect and designer concerned with technological innovation and
environmentally balanced buildings.
a. Frank Gehry c. Renzo Piano
b. Norman Foster d. Kenzo Tange
133. Influential Italian architect and urban theorist who initiated the contemporary school of
rational archre during the 1960’s and 70’s
a. Alvar Aalto c. Frei Otto
b. Aldo Rossi d. Fry Maxwell
134. “Architecture is a personal effort” remarked by.
a. Paul Rudolph c. Frei Otto
b. Adolf Loos d. Aldo Rossi
135. Architect of the “John Hancock Center, Chicago”
a. H.O.K c. Norman Foster
b. Daniel Burnham d. S.O.M
136. Architect of the “City Hall complex” in Tokyo.
a. Minoru Yamasaki c. Kenzo Tange
b. Renzo Piano d. Fumihiko Maki
137. Japanese architect, like many of his generation he experimented with aspects of western
modernism. He was associated with the start of metabolism in 1960.
a. Minoru Yamasaki c. Mario Bolta
b. Fumihiko Maki d. Kenzo Tange
138. American architect of Japanese decent. And with emery poth and sons he designed the
Twin Towered World Trade Center.
a.Minoru Yamasaki c. Mario Bolta
b. Fumihiko Maki d. Kenzo Tange
139. “Buildings should not be for walls and roof” belongs to,
a. Fry Maxwell c. Marcel Breuer
b. Paul Rudolph d. Peter Behrens
140. Architect of “Louvre, Pyramid” in Paris.
 a. Fumihiko Maki c. Ieoh Ming Pei
b. Norman Foster d. Kenzo Tange
141. A series of balusters.
a. vestibule b. balustrade c. baluster
142.A castle or imposing country residence of nobility in old trance.
a. nymph b. nymphaeum c. chateau/chateaux
143. An ante-room to a larger apartment of a building.
a. ambulatory b. vestibule c. salon
144. Italian name for the internal court surrounded by an arcade.
a. cortile b. Venice c. vitruvius
145. A construction such as a tower at the crossing of a church rising above roof and glazed at
the sides.
a. pedestal b. lantern c. fenestration
146. The arrangement and design of windows in a building.
a. shell b. fenestration c. curtain wall
147. Arrangement of wood lamination.
a. space frame b. Bauhaus c. curtain wall
148. A communicating passage or wide corridor for pictures an upper storey for seats in a
church.
a. Palladian motif b. niche (shell) c. gallery
149. Bulbous termination to the top of a tower, found principally in central and eastern Europe.
a. chancel b. loggia c. helm
150. Each baked (unglazed) or burnt in moulds. For use in construction and decoration, harder in
quality than brick.
a. oriel b. terra cotta c. stretcher
151. A public open place, surrounded by building; may vary in shape and in civic purpose.
a. lantern b. piazza c. tabernacle
152. An elevation closed in a column in church in which the preacher stands.
a. pulpit b. peristyle c. modillions
153. An outdoor area adjoining or enclosed by the walls or arcade of a house, often paved and
shaped.
a. patio b. rococo c. wreath
154. A style architecture and decoration, primarily French in origin, which represents the final
phase of the baroque around the middle of the 18th century, characterized by profuse, often
semiabstract orientation and lightness of colors and weight.
a. rococo b. niche c. mansard
155. A hollow structure in the form of a thin curved slab or plate whose thickness is small
compared with its other dimensions and with its radii of curvature; any framework or
exterior structure which is regarded as not completed pr filled in.
a. hybrid b. quoins c. shell
156. In Italy, a palace or private residence which is impressive.
a. cantoria b. palazzo c. casino
157. Who treatise on architecture.
a. French b. vitruvius c. Martin Luther
158. An order more than one storey in height.
a. gothic contours b. colossal order c. chateau
159. A roof having a double slope on all four sides. The lower slope being much steeper.
a. transom b. mansard c. flat roof
160. A curved roof structure spanning an area; often spherical in shape
a. escorial b. dome c. patio
161. Same as horseshoes architecture.
a. Moorish architecture b. stucco c. plateria
162. In masonry, a hardstone or bridge used with similar ones, to reinforce in external corner or
edge of a hall of the like.
a. stucco b. quoins c. niche
163. An order more than one storey in height.
 a. pavilion b. castle c. transom
164. In a garden or fairground, a temporary structure or tent.
a. pavilion b. castle c. transom
165. A treatment façade without columns.
a. antiquarian b. astylar c. coupled column
166. In the renaissance the term was general used to denote a singer’s gallery often elaborately
carved in a major church.
a. cantoria b. peristyle c. loggia
167. The Italian name for the internal court, surrounded by an arcade in a palace or other edifice.
a. rustication b. cortile c. cantoria
168. In a basin for holy water, sometimes free standing but more often affixed to or carved out of
a wall or pillar near the entrance of a church.
a. holy water stoup b. piano noble c. fenestration
169. A decorative niche often topped a canopy and housing a statue.
a. palazzo b. lantern c. tabernacle
170. A masonry unit laid horizontally with its length in the direction of the face of the wall.
a. Flemish bond b. stretcher c. stock bond
171. The open around between the central and side aisles.
a. nave b. newel
b. nave arcade c. none of the above
172. Famous work of John Utzon.
a. CNN tower c. Madison Square Garden
b. Sydney Opera house d. Trade Center Twin Tower
173. A tall tower in, or contiguous to, a mosque with stairs leading up to one or more balconies
from which the faithful are called to prayer.
a. minaret c. obelisk
b. mosque d. none of the above
174. The classical order of architecture characterized by its capital with volutes, a fascinated
entablature, continuous frieze, usually dentils in the cornice.
a. Doric order c. Corinthian order
b. ionic order d. composite order
175. A roman public square surrounded by monumental buildings usually including a basilica
and a temple, the center of civic life.
a. colosseum c. agora
b. forum d. none of the above
176. Its great works are cathedrals, characterized by the pointed arch, the rib vault, the
development of the exterior flying buttress, and the gradual reduction of the walls to a
system of richly decorated fenestration.
a. Roman architecture c. French architecture
b. Gothic architecture d. Greek architecture
177. A sculpture gallery.
a. glyptotheca c. glypthoteca
b. glyptopeca d. none of the above
178. The ridge, edge, or curved line formed by the intersection of the surfaces of two intersecting
vaults.
a. groin c. grid
b. rib d. none of the above
179. A freestanding tomb used in ancient Egypt, consisting of a rectangular superstructure with
inclined sides, from which a shaft leads to underground burial and offering chambers.
a. pyramid c. rock hewn tomb
b. mastaba d. none of the above
180. Found on the underside of the mutules and regulaeo of Doric entablatures.
a. echinus c. guttae
b. abacus d. metopae
181. A simplified version of the roman Doric order, having a plain frieze and no mutules in the
cornice.
 a. volute c. Corinthian
b. ionic d. none of the above
182. A ornament consisting of a spirally wound band, either as a running ornament or as a
terminal, like the volutes of the ionic capital r the scrolls on the consoles and modillions.
a. volute c. bead
b. scroll d. reel
183. Introduced radiating arch and inverted Tuscan column.
a. roman architecture c. Greek architecture
b. Etruscan architecture d. none of the above
184. A private house of roman house.
a. villa c. domus
b. insula d. none of the above
185. The main inner hall of a roman house with an aperture in the roof for rainwater and a
rectangular basin to receive the water.
a. impluvium c. apse
b. atrium d. compluvium
186. Architect of Einstein tower.
a. Franklin Einstein c. William van Alen
b. Erich Mendelsohn d. none of the above
187. Main contributor of Art Nouveau.
a. Victor Horta & Henri Van de Veldec. F.L. Wright
b. Walter Gropius & William Alen d. none of the above
188. A long arcade entrance porch to a Christian Basilican church.
a. Bema c. Portico
b. Narthex d. none of the above
189. Architect of Manila City hall.
a. Juan Nakpil c. William Parson
b. Antonio Toledo d. Juan Arellano
190. The part of a cruciform church projecting at right angles to the main building.
a. bema c. trancept
b. transept d. none of the above
191. A method of forming stonework with roughened surfaces and recessed joints, principally
employed in renaissance building.
a. astylar c. rustication
b. ashlar d. cyclopean
192. A dome or turret rising from the roof of he hall of the medieval English residence,
originally open at the sides to allow the escape of smoke from the open hearth below.
a. louver c. chimney
b. gambler d. none of the above
193. A groove or channel, usually vertical, intended as an ornament.
a. gneiss c. glyph
b. gorge d. none of the above
194. A molding of double curvature which is convex at the outer edge and concave at the inner
edge.
a. cyma recta c. doric cyma
b. cyma reversa d. none of the above
195. A hidden subterranean chamber or complex of chambers and passages.
a. glyph c. trench
b. crypt d. none of the above
196. A decorative bracket in the form of a vertical scroll, projecting form of a wall to support a
cornice, a door or window head, a piece of sculpture.
a. conge c. console
b. conical d. cornice beam
197. The crowning molding of a classical cornice, especially when it has the form of a cyma,
though it may also be an ovolo or cavetto.
a. cymatium c. abacus
 b. fleuron d. corona
198. In Buddhist architecture, a monumental structure containing relics of Buddha or some
Buddhist saint.
a. pagoda c. gorupa
b. dagoda d. none of the above
199. Entrance of the Chinese architecture.
a. torri c. pylon
b. pai-lou d. propylaea
200. One of a band of small, square, toothlike blocks forming part of the characterisric
ornamentation of the ionic, Corinthian, and composite orders, and sometimes the Doric.
a. pendentil c. fin
b. dentil d. grille
201. All horizontal piping shall be run in practical alignment and at a uniform grade of not less
than ____ percent.
a. 1.5 % c. 1 %
b. 2 % d. 3%
202. A waterspout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often crave grotesquely.
a. gasket c. fountain
b. gargoyle d. none of the above
203. A pipe fitting which is threaded on both the inside and the outside so that it can be used to
connect two pipes of different sizes.
a. socket c. bushing
b. coupling d. flange
204. A device or machine that compresses and/ or transport fluids, usually by pressure or suction,
or both, may be used to remove water from a construction site or to convey water from one
elevation to another.
a. motor c. pump
b. generator d. all of the above
205. On the internal surface of a trap for a plumbing fixture, the highest point of the bottom
surface.
a. crown steeple c. crown seal
b. crown weir d. none of the above
206. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage and liquid waste
a. service pipe c. soil pipe
b. sewer d. waste pipe
207. A mass of organic matter which floats on the surface of sewage.
a. scum c. scrum
b. sludge d. none of the above
208. In plumbing, a tapered coupling for joining a pipe or conduit to another of larger size.
a. coupling c. nipple
b. bushing d. none of the above
209. A waste pipe which does not connect directly with the building drainage system, but
discharges into it through a properly trapped fixture or receptacle.
a. indirect system c. direct system
b. indirect waste pipe d. direct waste pipe
210. A measure of the portable discharge into the drainage system by various types of plumbing
fixtures; expressed in units of cubic volume per minute; the value for a particular fixture
depends on its volume rate of drainage discharge.
a. fixture unit c. fixture supply unit
b. parameters d. none of the above
211. The standard unit of electric current.
a. ampere c. resistance
b. watt d. volt
212. A lamp which light is emitted when a tungsten filament is heated to incandescence by an
electric current.
a. base c.lead-in-wire
 b. watt d. bulb
213. On a theatre stage, a master switch that distinguishes all stage lights simultaneously.
a. safety watch c. panel board
b. theatre safety watch d. none of the above
214. in an electric circuit, a current that flows in one direction only.
a. alternating current c. A & B
b. direct current d. none of the above
215. Current that has zero frequency.
a. alternating current c. A & B
b. direct current d. none of the above
216. A assembly of metalwork which is used to support insulated electric conductors.
a. tray c. cable tray
b. gable tray d. cableway
217. In electric systems, a metallic or non metallic tube (usually circular, oval, rectangular or
octagonal) for housing wires or cables, may be underground or embedded in concrete floor
slabs.
a. conduit c. cable
b. duct d. none of the above
218. Refers to the cutting-off or disconnection of the supply of current.
a. cutting c. penetrating
b. tripping d. none of the above
219. Is the most common type of wire service employed by power companies supplying
electricity.
a. overhead service entrance c. overhead entrance
b. underground service entrance d. none of the above
220. A group of small wires which is used as a single wire.
a. stranded wire c. wire mesh
b. cable wire d. none of he above
221. The number of times the cycle of compression and rarefaction of air makes in a given unit
of time.
a. hertz c. frequency
b. pitch d. reverberation
222. A man-made light source which produces radiation in or near the visible region of the
spectrum.
a. lamp c. torch
b. candle d. none of the above
223. Light that is not predominantly from any one direction.
a. deflection c. diffuser
b. diffuse light d. reflection
224. The number of oscillations per second of a sound wave or of a vibrating solid.
a. amplitude c. reverberation
b. sound wave d. frequency
225. The luminous flux per unit solid angle in a specific direction from a point source of light.
a. luminous flux c. lumen
b. luminous intensity d. luminance
226. A unit of luminous flux
a. candela c. lumen
b. candlefoot d. none of the above
227. The luminous intensity of a light source.
a. candlefoot c. lumen
b. candlepower d. bitumen
228. A rapid succession of echoes caused by the reflection of sound back and forth between two
parallel walls; initiated by a single, sharp pulse of sound.
a. flutter echo c. creep
b. reverberation d. resonance
229. Is the persistence of sound after the cause of sound has stopped- a result of repeated
 reflections.
a. echo c. focusing
b. reverberation d. creep
230. Sound travels in air, at sea level, in _____ m/ sec.
a. 443 m/ sec. c. 344 m/ sec.
b. 343 m/ sec d. 434 m/ sec.
231. A machine for lifting or lowering a load and moving it horizontally, in which the hoisting
mechanism is an integral part of the machine, classified by mounting, by boom
configuration and by lifting capacity.
a. tractor machine c. crane
b. crawler tractor d. none of the above
232. A device, apparatus, or material which reduces mechanical shock due to impact.
a. stopper c. plunger
b. buffer d. none of the above
233. In an electric circuit, a device for joining two or more conductors, by a low-resistance path,
without the use of a permanent splice.
a. connector c. conifer
b. splicer d. none of the above.
234. A heat-exchange device in a refrigeration system.
a. compressor c. condenser
b. liquid receiver d. heat exchanger
235. A device to used to vary the volume of air passing through an air outlet, inlet, or duct, it
does not significantly affect the shape of the delivery pattern.
a. rheostat c. datum
b. damper d. none of the above
236. The process of heat transfer through a material medium in which kinetic energy is
transmitted by particles of the materials from particle to particle without gross
displacement of the particles.
a. thermal conduction c. thermal insulation
b. thermometer d. none of the above
237. A device consisting of two junctions of two dissimilar metals, in an electric circuit, when
the two junctions are at different temperatures, a voltage is generated by the device, used
for measuring temperature.
a. thermoplastic c. thermosetting
b. thermocouple d. none of the above
238. A shaftway for the travel of one or more elevators, lifts, or dumbwaiters, includes the pit,
terminates at the underside floor or grating of the overhead machinery space.
a. guideshoe c. hoist
b. hoistway d. none of the above
239. In building erection, a temporary (sometime portable) structure that provides guideways for
a platform that lifts materials to upper stories.
a. crane c. hopper
b. hoist tower d. traction machine
240. A device for adding moisture to air.
a. humus c. HVAC
b. humidifier d. air conditioning
241. A truss having upper and lower horizontal members, between which are vertical and
diagonal members, the vertical members of the web take tension, and the members are
under compression.
a. howe truss c. fink truss
b. butted frame d. pratt truss
242. In reinforced concrete, an arrangement of steel bars or wise normally in two directions at
right angles, tied or welded at the intersections or interwoven.
a. wire mesh c. laying of wire
b. mesh reinforcement d. messuage
243. A wall capable of supporting an imposed load in addition to its own weight.
 a. retaining wall c. load-carrying bond
b. load-bearing wall d. none of the above
244. A small plate or escutcheon having only a keyhole.
a. key block c. kick plate
b. key plate d. none of the above
245. One of a series of parallel beams of timber, reinforced concrete, or steel used to support
floor and ceiling loads and supported in turn by larger beams, girders or bearing walls.
a. girder c. joist
b. rafter d. joist hanger
246. A concrete masonry unit having a portion of one face shell removed to facilitate bonding
with adjacent masonry such as brick facing.
a. header bond c. header block
b. stretcher d. none of the above
247. A massive concrete wall that resists overturning by virtue of its own weight.
a. retaining wall c. rip-rap
b. gravity wall d. load-bearing wall
248. A slight convex curvature built into a truss or beam to compensable for any anticipated
deflections so that it will have no sag when under load.
a. compression c. camber
b. tension d. impact load
249. A built-up timber beam composed of two beams placed end to end and secured by fish
plates covering the joint on opposite sides.
a. fish beam c. floor joist
b. girder beam d. none of the above
250. The lower edge of a sloping roof, that part of a roof of a building which projects beyond the
wall.
a. overhang c. eaves
b. cantilever d. flashing
251. A type of door lock, the bolt, which is square in cross section, is operated by the door key or
a turn piece.
a. hasp c. dead lock
b. dead bolt d. none of the above
252. In structures, a relatively long, slender structural compression member such as a post, pillar
or strut, usually vertical, supporting a load which acts in the direction of its longitudinal
axis.
a. footing c. king post
b. column d. colonnade
253. A protein; the chief nitrogenous ingredient of milk.
a. glue c. casein
b. casein-glue d. none of the above
254. A metallic pin or rod having a head at one end and an external thread on the other for
screwing up a nut.
a. nuts c. rivets
b. bolts d. log
255. Hard, unglazed fired clay.
a. terra-cotta c. bricks
b. adobe d. clay tiles
256. A piece or part of something sticking out, as the nib on a tile.
a. stud c. strut
b. stub d. none of the above
257. Vernacular term of floor sill.
a. guililan c. sahig
b. suleras d. swello
258. Vernacular terms of plaster.
a. costilyahe c. palitada
b. asintada d. none of the above
259. Vernacular term of ceiling joist.
a. costilyahe c. castillas
b. baldosa d. suleras
260. Vernacular term of bottom chord.
a. sinturon c. barandilla
b. tahilan d. barakilan
261. Ratio of the flux absorbed by medium to the incident flux.
a. absorption c.abortion
b. absorptance d. NOTA
262. The unit of luminous intensity.
a.candela c. lumen
b. candela power d.NOTA
263. Luminous intensity expressed in candelas.
a. candela c. lumen
b. candlepower d. NOTA
264. Part of a building rising clear of the roofs and whose walls contain windows for lighting the
interior.
a. clerestory c. garret
b. attic d. NOTA
265. Related term for a manmade source of light.
a. lamp c. solar
b. laser d. NOTA
266. Series of baffles used to shield a source from view at a certain angles.
a. louver c blinds
b. sunshield d. NOTA
267. The SI (metric) unit of illuminance.
a. lux c. candela
b. lumen d. NOTA
268. Quantum of light per unit volume.
a. luminous area c. luminous intensity
b. luminous volume d. NOTA
269. Visible radiation from the sun redirecting by the atmosphere.
a. shade c. skylight
b. shadow d. NOTA
270. Screen made of opaque or diffusing material designed to prevent a light source from being
directly visible at normal angles of view.
a. shade c. skylight
b. shadow d. NOTA
271. Unit of luminous flux.
a. lumen c. candela
b. candle power d. NOTA
272. General term for the process by which incident flux is dissipated.
a. absorption c. altitude
b. absorptance d. NOTA
273. Any opening or arrangement of openings.
a. fenestration c. canto
b. window d. NOTA
274. Device for changing, by transmission, the magnitude and for the spectral composition of the
flux incident upon it.
a. screen c. diffuser
b. filter d. NOTA
275. What is the repetition of neglected sound caused by parallel walls?
a. flutter echo c. reverberation
b. reflection d. NOTA
276. The crowning glory of Archre.
a. Parthenon c. Erecthion
 b. Pantheon d. Prophylaea
277. The hottest root or dry sweating room in Thermae.
a. tepidarium c. frigidarium
b. calidarium d. sudatorium/ laconicum
278. Due to its length, the early Christian church gives an impression of
a. horizontality c. ellipse
b. verticality d. circular
279. Because of the dome as its central feature, Byzantine churches gives an impression of
a. horizontality c. ellipse
b. verticality d. circular
280. Arches placed diagonally at the internal angles of towers to bring them from the square to
support an octagonal dome or sphere.
a. triumphal arch c. aquinch arch
b. stilted arch d. voussouir
281. Church plan of Byzantine church.
a. green cross c. Latin cross
b. Greek cross d. red cross
282. Church plan of Romanesque churches.
a. green cross c. Latin cross
b. Greek cross d. red cross
283. The upper storey of the nave wall rising above the aisle roof which is pierced with
windows.
a. mezzanine c. tower
b. clerestory d. lantern
284. The largest gothic church of northern Europe.
a. sienna cathedral c. Amiens cathedral
b. Pisa cathedral d. Cologne cathedral
285. One characteristic feature of German gothic is the use of this material.
a. steel c. glass
b. bricks d. clay
286. It is known in the Archre of the curved lines.
a. gothic c. early Christian
b. baroque d. renaissance
287. Art nouveau in Spain.
a. modernismo c. stile liberty
b. jugenstil d. sezessione
288. Art nouveau of Italy.
a. modernismo c. stile liberty
b. jugenstil d. sezessione
289. Art nouveau of Germany.
a. modernismo c. stile liberty
b. jugenstil d. sezessione
290. Art nouveau of Austria.
a. modernismo c. stile liberty
b. jugenstil d. sezessione
291. Smallest among the pyramids famous at Gizeh.
a. p. of cheops c. p. of chefren
b. p. of mykerinos d. royal pyramids
292. The inner secret chamber in the Mastaba containing the statues of the deceased.
a. serdab c. sarcophagus chamber
b. altar chamber d. seraglio
293. Known as the royal architect and superintendent of pyramids.
a. Nebuchadnezzar c. Darius
b. Xerxes d. Thi
294. The architectural ornament of the Assyrians.
a. Battlemented Cresting c. Chiselleo Alabaster Slab
 b. Papyrus d. Palm
295. The system of construction used by the Assyrians.
a. Columnar and trabeated c. guiiloche
b. Arch and vault d. corbelled wall
296. The space between triglyphs with or without statues.
a. metope c. shaft
b. mutules d. archives
297. A greek building that contains painted pictures.
a. pinacotheca c. skene
b. hieroglyphics d. tymphanum
298. A foot race course in the cities, where games were celebrated.
a. hippodrome c. palaestra
b. cirgus d. stadium
299. Attributed the origin of the Corinthian capital which is distinguished by its bell shape and
acanthus leaf.
a. Callicrates c. Democrates
b. Callimachus d. Mnesicles
300. Is an ornament in classic or renaissance architecture consisting of an assemblage of straight
lines intersecting at right angles of various patterns.
a. fret c. diazoma
b. patirae d. patirae
301. A bracket of truss, generally which scrolls or volutes at the 2 ends of an equal size and
contrasted but connected by a flowing line from that back of the upper one to the inner
convolving face of the lower.
a. ancones c. pons
b. consoles d. aqueduct
302. Private house of the Romans.
a. villa c. domus
b. agora d. alcoba
303. The reception room of the domus.
a. alcoba c. alae
b. prothyrrum d. oecus
304. A building in classic archre for plants, flowers and running water, ornament with statues
and forming a cool and agreeable retreat.
a. hymphaneum c. balneum
b. botanical garden d. stoa
305. It is the kind of Romanesque order a part of the church being devoted to offices for the
deity. Founded by St. Benedict. It is also known as black monks.
a. St. Benedictine order c. Monk order
b. Cluniac order d. NOTA
306. In the south of Romanesque architecture, churches were usually _____ in plan and
frequently have naves covered with barrel vaults whose thrust was taken by half-barrel over
vaults aisles in two storeys?
a. circular in form c. rectifier
b. cruciform d. NOTA
307. What early material was made of clay and were dried in the sun or by fire.
a. terra-cotta c. brick
b. mud d. NOTA
308. As the people developed tools, they created special building materials. What do the
Nomadic people do to make a tent for their shelter?
a. wove cloth c. find broader leaves
b. skinned animals d. NOTA
309. _______ influences made it self felt in such Moslem features as a horseshoe arch and
pierced stone tracery, and notably in rich surface decoration of intricate geometrical and
flowing patterns.
a. Moslem craftsman c. allash
 b. Moorish d. NOTA
310. An ornate iron grille or screen, a characteristic feature of Spanish church interiors.
a. Jare c. Reja
b. Koralle d. NOTA
311. The covering usually of wood boards or plywood, placed over exterior studding or rafters of
a building; provides a base for the application of wall or roof building.
a. sheathing c. terra-cotta
b. tegula d. NOTA
312. He was the one who first to use Portland stone in his London buildings.
a. Sir Christopher Wren c. P. Nervi
b. I. Jones d. NOTA
313. A brick work with alternate courses of stretchers and headers.
a. Flemish bond c. English bond
b. alternate bond d. NOTA
314. A masonry unit laid so that its ends are exposed, overlapping two or more adjacent withes
of masonry and tying them together; a bonder
a. header c. bond
b. stretcher d. NOTA
315. A masonry unit laid horizontally with its length in the direction of the face of the wall.
a. header c. bond
b. stretcher d. NOTA
316. Vertical joints of one course falling midway between those of adjacent course.
a. header c. stretcher bond
b. header bond d. NOTA
317. A bond in which each courses consists of headers and stretchers laid alternately, each
header is centered with respect to the stretcher above the stretcher below it.
a. Flemish bond c. alternate bond
b. English bond d. NOTA
318. A pattern bond the facing brick is laid with all vertical joints continuously aligned.
a. Flemish bond c. NOTA
b. stack bond d. AOTA
319. Masonry unit which is set on end, with its face showing on the wall surface.
a. stretcher c. soldier
b. header d. NOTA
320. Earth baked (unglazed) or burnt in moulds. For use in construction and decoration, harder in
quality than brick.
a. terra-cotta c. brick
b. tegula d. NOTA
321. In early renaissance, it is an architecture which followed Tudor, was a transition style with
gothic features and renaissance detail. It was secular rather than ecclesiastical in its nature.
a. Jacobean architecture c. Stuart architecture
b. Elizabethan architecture d. NOTA
322. A communicating passage or wide corridor for pictures and statues. An upper storey for
seats in the church.
a. loggia c. gallery
b. pinacotheca d. NOTA
323. Sunk panels, caissons or lacunaria formed in ceilings, vaults or domes.
a. coffers c. aqueduct
b. dado d. NOTA
324. A portion of a pedestal between its base and cornice. A term also applied to the lower
portion of walls when decorated separately.
a. coffers c. aqueduct
b. dado d. NOTA
325. An order of architecture with a massive, short, squat, and flat columns that stands without a
base directly on a stylobate.
a. ionic c. doric
 b. tuscan d. NOTA
326. It came from the Latin word “pedare” meaning to support, a triangular piece of wall above
the entablature which fills in and supports the sloping roof.
a. pediment c. triglyph
b. regula d. NOTA
327. Optical illusion perceived only in a Doric column, it curves outwards or tapering and
slightly convex profile.
a. battered c. optical illusion
b. entassis d. NOTA
328. From the Latin word “caput” meaning head, the crowning feature of a column or pilaster.
a. capus c. capital
b. columnar d. NOTA
329. The space between the astragal of the shaft and commencement of the capital proper. The
trachellion.
a. necking c. NOTA
b. hypotrachellion d. AOTA
330. An order that is contemporary of Doric with a scroll/ volute capital, has a base and plinth,
the shaft is thinner, longer making it taller.
a. Doric c. tuscan
b. ionic d. NOTA
331. An order from Greece which employed the first use of foliate designs and capital.
a. tuscan c. Corinthian
b. composite d. NOTA
332. A flower, honey suckles or palmette ornament in cornice.
a. anthemion c. cyma
b. astragal d. NOTA
333. From the Latin word “facis” meaning face, vertical face or a little projection.
a. façade c. AOTA
b. fascia d. NOTA
334. Who invented the Corinthian order?
a. kalimau c. callimachus
b. Nebuchadnezzar d. NOTA
335. Is the term applied to wood after it is sawed or sliced into boards, plank, timber, etc..
a. lumber c. lumbering
b. logging d. rough lumber
336. It is that fibrous substance which composes the trunk and branches of trees that lies between
the pitch and the bark.
a. wood c. pitch
b. board d. bark
337. Are dressed lumber wherein the number connotes the number of smooth side.
a. s2s & s4s c. std
b. sss d. Bd. Ft.
338. It is a piece of lumber less than 4 cm. thick with at least 10 cm. wide.
a. board c. slab
b. plank d. flitch
339. It is a thick piece of slumber.
a. flitch c. board
b. slab d. plank
340. Is a lumber taken from a crooked tree.
a. crooked or crossed grain c. fine grained
b. coursed grain d. grain
341. Composed of several heart shakes which radiate from the center of the log in “star-like”
manner.
a. star shakes c. board member
b. heart shakes d. board inch
342. Is the unit of measurement used in computing the volume of the log.
 a. board foot c. board inch
b. board meter d. board member
343. Occur at the starting point of a limb or branch of the wood.
a. knots c. star shake
b. wind shake d. heart shake
344. 16 pieces 2x3x16 is equal to how many board ft.
a. 128 bd. ft. c. 138 bd. ft.
b. 116 bd. ft. d. 108 bd. ft.
345. Is sold either in cement bags of 40 kilos weight or in bulk in cement trucks.
a. Portland cement c. concrete
b. cement d. aggregate
346. Is an artificial stone made by binding together particles of some inert materials with a paste
made of cement and water.
a. concrete c. gravel
b. sand d. aggregate
347. Same materials as normal Portland except in color
a. white portlan cement c. masonry cement
b. pozzoland d. water proofed Portland cement
348. This is a special cement (Portland) used in/for sealing oil wells.
a. oil well cement c. pozzoland
b. masonry cement d. ordinary cement
349. Are aggregates smaller than ¼ inch diameter stones.
a. fine aggregate c. gravel
b. sand d. course aggregate
350. Used to speed up the initial set of concrete.
a. accelerators c. retarders
b. retarded d. acceleration
351. Concrete mixed used in a concrete plant boxes etc.
a. class A c. class peds
b. class CC d. class C
352. Small amount of certain air-entraining agents are added to the clinker and ground with it to
produce air effective use for resistance to severe frost.
a. air-entraining cement c. masonry cement
b. white Portland cement d. oil-well cement
353. Has been specially designed to produce better mortar than that made with normal Portland
cement or with a lime-cement combination.
a. masonry cement c. white Portland cement
b. waterproofed d. lime cement
356. Normally produced by adding a small amount of steariate, usually calcium or aluminum to
the cement clinker during the final grading.
a. water proofed Portland cement c. white Portland cement
b. air-entraining Portland cement d. Portland cement
357. Concrete contains microscopic bubbles of air formed with the aid of a group of chemicals
called surface active agents.
a. air-entraining agents c. accelerators
b. dispersal agents d. retarders
358. Is used to delay or extend the setting time of the cement paste in concrete.
a. retarders c. dispersal agent
b. accelerators d. air-entraining agents
359. This will allow earlier removal of forms and in some cases reduce the whole curing period.
a. accelerators c. retarders
b. dispersal agent d. NOTA
360. An admixture used to speed up the initial set of concrete.
a. accelerators c. dispersal agents
b. air-entraining agents d. concrete hardeners
361. Plain concrete surface which are subjected to rolling live loads, the impact action of foot
 traffic and other types of wear begin dust and crumble at the surface after period of time.
a. concrete hardeners c. retarders
b. accelerators d. dispersal agents
362. Concrete mix used for under water, retaining walls, and the likes construction.
a. class AA c. class A41FBI
b. class A d. class C
363. Common quality control test of concrete based on 7 and 28 days curing period.
a. compressive strength test c. slump test
b. compression strength test d. urinal test
364. A test which is done to a mixed concrete to ensure that the specified slump is being attained
consistently.
a. slump test c. compressive strength test
b. slum test d. compression strength test
365. Four parts of lime stone to one part clay are the basic ingredients.
a. Portland cement c. concrete
b. cement d. masonry cement
366. Special cement
a. Portland cement d. air-entraining cement
b. oil well cement e. water proofed Portland cement
c. masonry cement f. white Portland cement
367. Concrete mixes (base on the source book)
a. class AB d. class AA
b. class C e. class B
c. class A
368. Brands of white cement.
a. snow white cement d. keene white cement
b. floro white cement e. snowcrete white cement
c. trinity white cement
369. Materials used to reduce permeability and also damp roofers.
a. fine metallic aggregate d. water repellents
b. air-entertaining agent e. film applied to surface
c. cement dispersal agent
370. Cross section of a tree (by parts)
a. plank e. outer bark
b. pitch f. sap wood
c. heart wood g. inner bark
d. modular rays h. canbium
371. Process of preserving wood.
a. manual c. external
b. internal d. NOTA
372. Common causes of decay in wood.
a. brittle or malleable d. heat and confined
b. fungi or molds e. alternate moisture
c. insect or worms
373. Most common defects in wood (cause by abnormal growth)
a. soil defects d. star shakes
b. hearth shakes e. knots
c. wind shakes or cup shakes
374. Classification of trees
a. sap wood e. boar
b. hard wood f. flitch
c. softwood g. fined grained
d. crooked or cross grained
375. Methods of sawing the log.
a. chopping c. logging
b. lumbering d. sawing
376. Raw water is made to pass on pipes of tiny sieves and exposed to air of fine mist.
a. sedimentation d. aeration
b. chemical treatments e. NOTA
c. filtration f. AOTA
377. Rigid pipe or its type can be.
a. PVC (poly vinyl chloride) d. PP (polypropylene)
b. UPVC (unplasticized PVC) e. AOTA
c. CPVC (chlorinated PVC) f. NOTA
378. A durable pipe material which is extremely corrosive resistant easiest to install.
a. copper pipes d. asbestos pipes
b. lead pipes e. NOTA
c. PVC pipes f. AOTA
379. Similar to a compression cock but has a screw outside for connection of water hose.
a. self closing faucets d. hose bibb
b. key cock e. AOTA
c. compression cock f. NOTA
380. A comprehensive term, including all construction for collection, transportation, pumping,
treatment and final disposition of waste.
a. sewer d. drain
b. sewerage e. NOTA
c. sewage f. AOTA
381. Degrees or grades of waste water, it is a type of plumbing system.
a. storm water d. filtered water
b. drainage water e. AOTA
c. sewer water f. NOTA
382. The setting of fixtures.
a. roughing-in d. setting
b. furnishing e. AOTA
c. finishing f. NOTA
383. A suction caused by the flow of liquids in pipes.
a. sipitonage d. sewerage
b. epitomage e. AOTA
c. siphonage f. NOTA
384. Materials for plumbing installations.
a. pumps d. risers
b. tanks e. NOTA
c. maximum demands f. AOTA
385. Horizontal pipes that serve the faucets or fixtures are called.
a. branches d. hot water line
b. risers e. AOTA
c. cold water line f. NOTA
386. It includes transformers, switchboards, panel board, large switches and circuit breakers.
a. installation d. power handling equipment
b. wiring e. NOTA
c. utilization equipment f. AOTA
387. Electrical power is generated from source of energy.
a. wind d. fossil fuels
b. water e. NOTA
c. nuclei fusion f. AOTA
388. Both metric and customary systems use as the basic units of measurement.
a. volts d. ohms
b. amps e. NOTA
c. watts f. AOTA
389. Are spring leaded devices in which a strip of metal bends when heated and trips a switch
which disconnect power to the circuit.
a. ground fault circuit interrupters d. thermostat
 b. fuses e. AOTA
c. parallel circuit f. NOTA
390. Are simple devices in which a piece of metal melts when the circuit is heated and interrupts
the current.
a. fuses d. wires
b. receptacles e. AOTA
c. conduit f. NOTA
391. Are the materials used to carry or allow the flow of electric current.
a. reciprocators d. copper wires
b. conductors e. NOTA
c. insulator f. AOTA
392. Refers to the cutting off or disconnection of the supply of current.
a. short circuit d. tapping
b. alternating e. NOTA
c. staggering f. AOTA
393. Opposition or friction to the flow of current.
a. receptacle d. stranded wire
b. resistance e. NOTA
c. insulator f. AOTA
394. Rate at which energy is used r alternatively, the rate at which work is done.
a. mil d. energy
b. effort e. NOTA
c. resistance f. AOTA
395. Use for high-current carrying application.
a. busbars d. insulators
b. busduct e. NOTA
c. plug-in f. AOTA
396. The frames on either of the moving steps of an escalator.
a. balustrades d. car
b. railings e. NOTA
c. buffer f. AOTA
397. A vessel or arrangement of pipes or tubing in which vaporized refrigerant is liquefied by the
removal of heat.
a. condenser d. compressor
b. refrigerant e. NOTA
c. boiler f. AOTA
398. The driven unit of an equipment.
a. hoist way d. duct
b. machine e. NOTA
c. dumbwaiter f. AOTA
399. Oil or spring usually placed in the elevator pit.
a. buffers d. armature
b. shutter e. AOTA
c. governor f. NOTA
400. The velocity of flow through an opening is inversely proportional to the area of its cross
section.
a. counterweights d. ionization detectors
b. car e. NOTA
c. venture effect f. AOTA
401. They raise and lower the car.
a. cables d. shaft
b. counterweights e. AOTA
c. governor f. NOTA
402. A single source of heat that is distributed by pipes or ducts.
a. ACCU d. central heating
b. direct current generator e. NOTA
 c. dehumidifier f. AOTA
403. A material such as specially treated paper that retards the passageway of vapor or moisture
into walls and prevents condensation within the walls.
a. moisture barrier d. newel
b. parging e. AOTA
c. mineral wool f. NOTA
404. A conductor serving to maintain electric contact between stationary and moving individual
parts of a machine or other apparatus.
a. commutator d. brushes
b. governor e. NOTA
c. field circuit f. AOTA
405. Means a machine for lifting or lowering a load and moving it horizontally, the hoisting
mechanism being a n integral part.
a. tractor machine d. elevator
b. lift machine e. NOTA
c. hoist way f. AOTA
406. A tool used to guide pencil or scriber in marking straight line.
a. straight edge d. level
b. ruler e. NOTA
c. miter square f. AOTA
407. Measuring tools that are being used in building constructions.
a. zigzag rule d. marking gauge
b. slide caliper rule e. NOTA
c. side caliper rule f. AOTA
408. With water is one of the best and accurate tool for guiding work in establishing a horizontal
level.
a. hose d. vise
b. level e. NOTA
c. pipe f. AOTA
409. Is a basic construction tool used in many of the dirty work of concrete mixing and
plastering.
a. pail d. float
b. board e. NOTA
c. trowel f. AOTA
410. A mechanical device used for lifting heavy weight.
a. hoist d. crane
b. pulley e. NOTA
c. taut f. AOTA
411. Which is the process of sawing into smaller pieces after the removal of the branches.
a. bushing d. lumbering
b. skidding e. NOTA
c. felling f. AOTA
412. Vertical shaft which contains a staircase
a. spandrel d. straight flight
b. stringer e. NOTA
c. stairwell f. AOTA
413. Art of building with stone, bricks, concrete blocks or similar materials.
a. plastering course d. dry wall construction
b. ashlars e. AOTA
c. mosaics f. NOTA
414. Refers to the state of fluidity of freshly mixed concrete
a. durability d. compression test
b. slump test e. NOTA
c. workability f. AOTA
415. Building material rejected as below grade/ below standard grade.
a. checks d. cull
 b. course e. AOTA
c. rejected f. NOTA
416. Considered as a universal man.
a. Lorenzo Piano d. Frank Lloyd Wright
b. Thomas Jefferson e. NOTA
c. Frank Gehry f. AOTA
417. Architect of the NBS super branch in Araneta ave., in Cubao, Q.C.
a. Rogelio Villarosa d. Cesar Concio
b. Juan Nakpil e. NOTA
c. William Parsons f. AOTA
418. “Honesty, Integrity and Diligence” belongs to
a. Juan Nakpil d. Cesar Concio
b. Francisco Manosa e. AOTA
c. Philip Recto f. NOTA
419. The individuals who demand a radical shaft in emphasis from the building of the past to the
design of those which meet the demands of modern life.
a. monumentalism d. radicalism
b. cubism e. NOTA
c. rationalism f. AOTA
420. Designed the proposed Chicago master plan.
a. Frank Lloyd Wright d. Skidmore, Owings and Meril
b. Paul Rudolph e. NOTA
c. Lucio Costa f. AOTA
421. Drawing of buildings and layouts in simplified, undetailed form
a. sketches d. poche
b. parti-scheme e. NOTA
c. block-plan f. AOTA
422. The study of creative processes, especially as applied to the stating and solution of problem
that in values free use of metaphor and analogy in informal interchange within a small
group of diverse individuals.
a. synectics d. modular
b. proxemics e. AOTA
c.
ergonomics

f.
NOTA
423. A state or quality of lacking variety.
a. distortion d. interval
b. chaos e. NOTA
c. abstract f. AOTA
424. A standard, rule or principle on which a judgment or decision may be based.
a. order d. ordinances
b. commandment e. NOTA
c. golden rule f. AOTA
425. The exterior framework or walls and roof of a building.
a. skin d. shell
b. substructure e. AOTA
c. façade f. NOTA
426. Clipped or trimmed into ornamental and fantastic shapes, or the work or art.
a. topiary d. complexity
b. surythmy e. AOTA
c. abstract f. NOTA
427. A slaughterhouse
a. market d.manor house
b. abattoir e. NOTA
 c. killing field f. AOTA
428. To form an idea or concept in the mind.
a. schemed d. formulated
b. metaphored e. NOTA
c. visualized f. AOTA
429. Harmony of proportion or movement.
a. rhythm d. interval
b. surythmy e. NOTA
c. harmony f. AOTA
430. Large picture given additional reality by optical illusions and illumination and viewed
through an aperture in a dark room.
a. diorama d. berceau
b. picturesque e. AOTA
c. 3D effects f. NOTA
431. Father of modern archre
a. Frank Lloyd Wright d. AOTA
b. Lucio Costa e. Henry Louis Sullivan
c. Frank Gehry f. NOTA
432. Architect designer of the Bantay Bata Children’s Village on Norzagaray, Bulacan.
a. Augusto Silang d. Felino Palatox
b. Cesar Concio e. NOTA
c. Noel Bernardo f. AOTA
433. “It is better to be good than to be original” belongs to
a. Philip Johnson d. Lucio Costa
b. Paul Rudolph e. NOTA
c. Cesar Pelli f. AOTA
434. “For everything we do, there must be an emotional reason and logical end “belongs to
a. Minoru Yomasaki d. Eero Saarinen
b. Frank Gehry e. NOTA
c. Daniel Burnham f. AOTA
435. Opaque or translucent element used to shield light source from direct view at certain angles.
a. baffle d. bulb
b. shadow e. NOTA
c. shade f. AOTA
436. Relative elevation of color temperature (warmth/cold) of a light source.
a. cones d. diffuse
b. chromacity e. NOTA
c. chroma f. AOTA
437. How well details stand out from their background.
a. conspicuity d. clerestory
b. constancy e. NOTA
c. chromacity f. AOTA

438. Transparent coating of eyeball covering iris and pupil.

a. corona d. retina
b. cornea e. NOTA
c. chroma f. AOTA
439. Figure or pattern whose integrated whole is perceived as being different from the sum of its
parts.
a. gestalt d. background
b. glitter e. NOTA
c. figure ground f. AOTA
440. Diaphragm which controls the size of the pupil opening, depending on amount of light
available to the eye.
a. retina d. iris
b. cornea e. NOTA
 c. corona f. AOTA
441. Having the property of revealing 3 dimensional form by emphasizing highlights and
shadows.
a. modeling d. shadow
b. matte e. NOTA
c. moire f. AOTA
442. Ability of material to retain and release light energy after the stimuli are removed.
a. photoperiodism d. photosphorescence
b. photoprism e. NOTA
c. offending zone f. AOTA
443. Device used to redirect light from a source.
a. reflector d. refractor
b. diffuser e. NOTA
c. diffusion f. AOTA
444. Attractive, extreme brightness which results from a pleasant composition of luminous
brilliance.
a. glitter d. maitre
b. sparkle e. NOTA
c. reflector f. AOTA
445. Recessed, long lighting fixture, usually installed with its housing flush with the ceiling.
a. fluorescent lamp d. bulb
b. spotlight e. NOTA
c. par lamp f. AOTA
446. Describes the materials found in the locality, the characteristic and composition of the earth
and the contour of the ground.
a. geological d. geographical
b. historical e. NOTA
c. climatic f. AOTA
447. It is abundant in Egypt in quantity and variety when it comes to building materials.
a. travertine d. bricks
b. ashlars e. AOTA
c. stone f. NOTA
448. Principal characteristics of Egyptian archre is the sue of ________
a. sphinx d. timber
b. gorge e. NOTA
c. stones f. AOTA
449. A type serving for nobility rather than loyalty, for priests.
a. offering chapel d. rock-hewn tombs
b. valley building e. NOTA
c. mortuary temple f. AOTA
450. Source of communal origin and authority with each community.
a. pylon d. tomb
b. offering chapel e. NOTA
c. sphinx f. AOTA
451. The ziggurat of Ur was built about 2100 BC for _____ the moon god.
a. Suen d. Zeus
b. Apesopolis e. NOTA
c. Odin f. AOTA
452. Goddess of the chaste or virginity.
a. Ares d. Dionysius
b. Artemis e. NOTA
c. Hephaestus f. AOTA
453. Temples have a single column line/ single line columns surrounding the naos.
a. prostyle d. pseudo-dipteral
b. in arthis e. NOTA
c. dipteral f. AOTA
454. Blocks resting on the vertex and lower extremities of the pediment to support by statuary or
ornaments.
a. gargoyle d. tympanum
b. trachellon e. NOTA
c. acroferion f. AOTA
455. The sharp edge formed by the meeting of 2 surfaces.
a. Arris d. fillets
b. flutes e. NOTA
c. metope f. AOTA
456. Anyone of the ornamental stalls rising between the leaves of a Corinthian capital from
which the volutes spring.
a. corona d. caucoli
b. regula e. NOTA
c. Corinthian leaves f. AOTA
457. The great use by them, Romans introduced the ________.
a. mortar and bricks d. timber and stones
b. columnar and trabeated e. NOTA
c. ashlars and cement f. AOTA
458. Etruscan architecture
a. Arch. Of Augustus d. Temple of Juno Sospita
b. Cloaca Maxima e. NOTA
c. Necropolis Cerveteri f. AOTA
459. A porch or vestibule in front of the house/ door of a house.
a. atrium d. cubiculum
b. prothyrom e. NOTA
c. foyer f. AOTA
460. A basin usually of stone which holds the water for baptism.
a. cupola d. coupe
b. cancelli e. NOTA
c. water basin f. AOTA
461. Dome with convolutions.
a. melon d. bulbous sharp
b. serrated e. NOTA
c. simple f. AOTA
462. A screen in a Greek orthodox church on which icons (sacred image) are placed, separating
the chancel from the space, open to the laity.
a. mosais d. iconostasis
b. dosseret block e. NOTA
c. gallery f. AOTA
463. Architectural style characterized by friezes and cresting.
a. Greek d. roman
b. Egyptian e. NOTA
c. Etruscan f. AOTA
464. An alley or walk, a gallery behind a parapet.
a. machicolation d. allure
b. secular e. NOTA
c. battlement f. AOTA
465. Architectural character of Romanesque archre.
a. military buildings d. horseshoe arch.
b. city walls e. NOTA
c. religious buildings f. AOTA
466. The slope as inclination of any work, or a coarse rock fragments, mixed with soil at the foot
of a cliff.
a. talos d. machicolation
b. glacis e. NOTA
c. fosse-foss f. AOTA
467. A hall in a convent, monastery or public secular institution where meals are eaten.
a. palisade d. motte
b. bailey e. NOTA
c. refectory f. AOTA
468. A series of stout poles, pointed on top and driven into the earth, used as a fence or
fortification.
a. palisade d. bailey
b. rampart e. NOTA
c. baulks f. AOTA
469. One of the earliest types of dwelling in England, most important house in a country or
village neighborhood.
a. cottages d. manor
b. orford e. NOTA
c. castle f. AOTA
470. The ornamental pattern work in stone, filling the upper part of a gothic window.
a. tertiare d. fenestration
b. rayonnant e. NOTA
c. chevet f. AOTA
471. A cup board or recess in a church and contain sacred vessel, in gothic archre.
a. ambry d. crockets
b. font e. NOTA
c. boss f. AOTA
472. Intermediate uprising ribs, were inserted later between the transverse and diagonal ribs to
give additional support to the panels of a vault.
a. quoins d. transverse
b. tierserons e. NOTA
c. formeret f. AOTA
473. A vault in which the ribs compose of a star-shaped pattern.
a. stellar d. started
b. tudor e. NOTA
c. decorated f. AOTA
474. Pairs of timbers arched together and based near the ground erected to form principals for the
support of the roof and walls of timber-framed small houses.
a. hammer d. crucks
b. baulk-tie e. NOT A
c. blades f. AOTA
475. A building complex of a monastic order or a self contained community used by monks.
a. refectory d. minister
b. presbytery e. NOTA
c. church f. AOTA
476. An ornate iron grille or screen a characteristic feature of Spanish church interiors.
a. custodia d. reredos
b. balustradia e. NOTA
c. reja f. AOTA
477. Great inventions contributed to the general upheaval in this (renaissance) period.
a. gunpowder d. copper plate engraving
b. mariner’s compass e. NOTA
c. printing by movable types f. AOTA
478. Among the Greek and roman literature brought to light was the _______?
a. biblical theology on archre d. good hope
b. treatise of archre e. NOTA
c. counter reformation f. AOTA
479. A lower roof which is sometimes projected below the eaves of main root in Japan archre.
a. Irimoya d. Yariganna
b. Torii e. NOTA
c. Hisashi f. AOTA
480. Dish rack in bahay-na-bato.
a. banguera d. ventarilla
b. mamahen e. AOTA
c. orocan f. NOTA
481. A block of wood used to lock in place adjacent layers up a built up wood beam.
a. brace block c. block of wood
b. brace wood d. girder beam
482. A nail similar to a common nail but thinner has a long shank which may be smooth or
barbed.
a. box nail c. nail house
b. mail box d. cabinet
483. The clarity, strength, and brightness of a color or varnish.
a. brilliance c. brightness
b. luminance d. chroma
484. A stonemason’s tool.
a. jedding axe c. mason axe
b. welding axe d. axe hammer
485. Tharmac, a paving road or other surfaces formed by grading and compacting layers of
crushed stones or gravel.
a. macadam c. concrete pavement
b. asphalt d. bricks pavement
486. A concrete masonry unit which is no rectangular, usually used as a corner.
a. offset block c. fillet block
b. chamfer block d. block bond
487. A silver-white metal, widely used as an additive to steel and last-iron alloys.
a. nickel c. iron
b. silver d. manganese
488. In India, an audience hall in the palace of a prince.
a. durbar c. ninjam
b. burbor d. burubudur
489. A type of window frame having an upper sash.
a. hopper frame c. curtain
b. hopper sash d. transom frame
490. An instrument for measuring the hardness of a material.
a. durometer c. hammer
b. durameter d. durahammer
491. Mosaic inlay especially in the Italian renaissance wooden form.
a. intarsia c. litereti
b. infersia d. mosaic
492. A reservoir often of architectural nature at the end of an aqueduct, for distributing the water
into various channels.
a. castellum c. brine
b. pipe d. tank
493. In a refrigeration system, any liquid used as a heat transfer medium which remains as liquid.
a. brine c. liquefier
b. refrigerant d. prime mover
494. An empty tomb or monument erected to the dead.
a. cenotaph c. niche
b. mastaba d. lapida
495. A cemetery or portion of a cemetery reserved for ground interments or burials.
a. graveyard c. carabao grass
b. Bermuda ground d. graveyard
496. A private or owned cemetery with well kept landscape.
a. memorial park c. public cemetery
b. cemetery d. mausoleum
497. A niche in a tomb or columbarium to accommodate an urn containing the ashes of a
 cremated body.
a. cinebarium c. lapidarium
b. tepudarium d. musilarium
498. Internment space for cinerary remains.
a. niche c. tomb
b. ossuary d. sepulcher
499. Internment space for bones of the dead.
a. ossuary c. sepulcher
b. niche d. tomb
500. A small flat slab of marble of similar material containing an inscription usually laid flat on
the ground.
a. tablet c. lot
b. tomb d. cenotaph
501. A large stately tomb to accommodate one or more internments, usually with provisions for
an ossuary or a cinebarium.
a. mausoleum c. sepulcher
b. niche d. columbarium
502. The interment receptacle for coffins of reinforced concrete, covered and sealed whether
sunk into the ground on to rest on the ground.
a. vault c. tablet
b. tomb d. niche
503. An assembly made of incombustible material installed on openings except on exit doors and
exhaust built for the prevention of spreading of fire.
a. shutter c. insulated shaft
b. shaft d. insulated hoist
504. An open work truss in a form of arch.
a. braced arch c. balloon frame
b. space flame d. one-way arch
505. The stress per square unit area of the original cross section of a material.
a. tensile stress c. tensile strength
b. tensile strain d. strength of materials
506. Buddhist monastery in Cambodia.
a. wat c. toranas
b. burubudur d. chaitya
507. It is the persistence sound in a room after the source has stopped.
a. echo c. acoustics
b. reverberation d. pitch
508. Simply the rate at which vibrations produced is usually expressed in hertz.
a. pitch c. reverberations
b. echo d. wavelength
509. Law of physics discovered by Christian Doppler, it is applied to sound, light and radar from
moving sources.
a. law of inertia c. special effect
b. law of gravity d. Doppler effect
510. It is the number of occurrences in a unit of time, vibrations or wave per unit of time.
a. frequency c. wavelength
b. pitch d. reverberation
511. Reinforcement and prolongation of a sound.
a. ultrasonic c. wavelength
b. resonance d. reverberation
512. Outer envelope of light source, usually quartz of glass.
a. string c. chroma
b. bulb d. ballast
513. Unit of luminous intensity equal to one candela power.
a. lumen c. candela
b. candle power d. illumination
514. Purity of saturation of color.
a. chroma c. value
b. hue d. dichrotic coating
515. Relationship between brightness of an object and that of its immediate surrounding.
a. hue c. contrast
b. chroma d. dichrotic coating
516. Directional light, which emphasizes objects.
a. diffuse light c. down light
b. accent light d. dimmed light
517. Light is distributed over upper walls and ceilings.
a. ceiling lighting c. natural lighting
b. cove lighting d. spot light
518. Device, object or surface that scatters light from source.
a. diffuser c. glazing light
b. light source d. glitter
519. Control device used to provide variable light from lamps.
a. diffuser c. glitter
b. dimmer d. glare
520. Quantum of light on one square foot of surface area, one foot away from light source of one
candela.
a. foot candle c. flood lamp
b. foot lambert d. fluorescent lamp
521. Quantity of light reflected from or transmitted through an object.
a. foot candle c. flood lamp
b. foot lambert d. fluorescent lamp
522. Attractive, extreme brightness which results from a pleasant composition of luminous
brilliance.
a. glazing light c. glare
b. glitter d. down light
523. Lighting from sources behind panel, parallel to walls and attached to ceiling. Light is
distributed over walls.
a. cornice lighting c. dichrotic lighting
b. cove lighting d. contrast
524. A light which falls onto a surface or object.
a. reflected light c. down light
b. incident light d. neon light
525. Unit of light energy used to specify light output sources.
a. lux c. luminaires
b. lumen d. candela
526. Complete lighting unit consisting of lamp together with parts to position and protect lamp,
direct light and connect lamp to power supply.
a. foot candle c. flood lamp
b. foot lambert d. fluorescent lamp
527. Metric unit of quantity of light 1 sq.m of surface area.
a. foot candle c. flood lamp
b. foot lambert d. fluorescent lamp
528. The amount of light falling on unit area of surface per second.
a. illumination c. luminous intensity
b. luminaires d. lumen
529. It is the acoustical phenomenon which causes sound waves to be bend or scattered around
such obstacles as corners.
a. sound diffusion c. sound diffraction
b. sound reflection d. sound effect
530. It illustrates how sound wave reflects the enclosures of a room.
a. geometric acoustics c. acoustical material
b. acoustics d. sound absorption
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____________ 531. A large or principal beam of steel, reinforced concrete, or timber used to
support concentrated loads at isolated points along its length.
____________ 532. One of a series of inclined members to which a roof covering is fixed.
____________ 533. One of several small beams to which the ceiling of a room is attached.
____________ 534. A structure composed of a combination of members (such as chords,
diagonal & web members), usually in some triangular arrangement so as to
constitute a grid framework.
____________ 535. Any joist which carries a floor.
____________ 536. A vertical pipe, often of sheet of metal, used to conduct water from a roof
drain or gutter to the ground or cistern.
____________ 537. A shallow channel of metal or wood set immediately below and alone the
eaves of a building to catch and carry off rainwater from roof.
____________ 538. A longitudinal member at the apex of a roof which supports the upper ends
of the rafters.
____________ 539. The finish covering of an exterior wall of a frame building.
____________ 540. The prominent usually rounded, horizontal edge, which extends beyond an
upright face below; as the projection of a tread beyond a riser.
____________ 541. A vertical member separating window, doors or panels set in series.
____________ 542. A board that is nailed vertically to the ends of roof rafters.
____________ 543. A wood strip, or metal strip, rounded on top which is used to finish the ridge
of a roof.
____________ 544. The vertical face of a stair step.
____________ 545. The overhead surface of a room, usually a covering a decorative treatment
used to conceal the floor above or roof.
____________ 546. A structural member whose prime function is to carry transverse loads, as a
joist, girder, rafter or purlin.
____________ 547. A narrow strip of wood applied to cover a joint along the edges of two
parallel boards in the same plane.
____________ 548. The horizontal part of a step that includes the nosing.
____________ 549. A roofing material in sheet form, usually of galvanized metal or cement
asbestos, shaped into alternate ridges and valleys.
____________ 550. A type of bond where the facing brick is laid with all vertical joints
continuously aligned.
____________ 551. The surface within a room on which one walks.
____________ 552. A series of steps connected by landings which permit passage between two
or more levels or floor.
____________ 553. The covering of a structure which includes all construction thereof.
____________ 554. A monastery or convent, particularly the church thereof.
____________ 555. A buttress or a second wall added to strengthen another.
____________ 556. An ornamental treatment used over an arch a door or a window, composed
of two ogee curves meeting in the middle.
____________ 557. Strictly a pedestal at the corners or peak of a roof to support an ornament,
more usually the ornament itself.
____________ 558. The inner shrine of a temple reserved for the priests.
____________ 559. A rooftop pavilion from which a vista can be enjoyed.
____________ 560. A room at or near the top of a tower which contains bells and their
supporting timbers, or the bell tower itself.
_____________ 561. In medieval fortifications, a tower or bay of timber construction.
_____________ 562. An ornamental tablet often inscribed or decorated and flamed with
elaborate scroll-like carving.
_____________ 563. The bishops throne set at the end of the apse in early Christian churches.
_____________ 564. The home church of a bishop usually in the principal church in a diocese.
_____________ 565. The semi circular tiered seating area of an ancient theatre (esp. roman)
_____________ 566. The sanctuary of a classical temple containing the cult statue of the god.
_____________ 567. Pertaining to the classical Greek period roughly from 480 b.c to the death
of Alexander in 323 b.c.
_____________ 568. Characteristic of the style of Greek art after the death of Alexander in 323
b.c.
_____________ 569. “Youth Style” the German version of art nouveau.
_____________ 570. A niche in the mosque or any religious Muslim.
_____________ 571. A horizontal bracket or console, usually in the form of a scroll with
acanthus supporting he corona under a cornice.
_____________ 572. A small tool used for the fine spay application of paint, dye, water color,
pigment or ink by compressed air.
____________ 573. A truck-mounted drum for transporting freshly mixed concrete; rotating
internal paddles or rotation of the drum prevents the setting of the mixture
prior to its delivery.
_____________ 574. Fine-grained, translucent variety of very pure gypsum generally white or
delicately shaded.
_____________ 575. A white line used for stucco; made by burning marble.
_____________ 576. A screw having hexagonally shaped recess in its head.
_____________ 577. The splitting of a film of paint in a pattern resembling an alligator skin.
_____________ 578. A composition of two or more metals fused together usually to obtain a
desired property.
_____________ 579. A small tooth which fits the chuck of a brace or drill, and by which it is
rotated.
_____________ 580. A brace or system of braces, placed between joists (or the like) to stiffen
them, to hold them in place and to help distribute the load.
_____________ 581. A plate used to anchor a stair to concrete.
_____________ 582. A protective plate applied on the lower rail of a door to prevent marring.
_____________ 583. An opening in a wall or parapet that allows water to drain from a roof.
_____________ 584. A small anvil used for the working of thin sheet metal, so called because it
is supported by a sharp vertical prop which is inserted in a hole in a
workbench.
_____________ 585. One of the principal longitudinal components of a beam or girder which
resists tension or compression.
_____________ 586. A thick timber cut with bark on one or more edges.
_____________ 587. A concrete member that is cast and cured other than its final position.
_____________ 588. A joint between two sheets of metal.
_____________ 589. The principal chamber in a greek temple containing the statue of deity.
_____________ 590. Roman apartment block that rose four or more storey high.
_____________ 591. A long arcaded entrance porch to a Christian Basilican church.
_____________ 592. The culmination of early Christian architecture. Developed 330 A.D. when
Constantine established the imperial capital.
_____________ 593. Pre-historic architecture that preserves remains of monument made
partially or wholly of giant stones.
_____________ 594. General influence in architecture indicating the emotional temperament
and spiritual tendencies of the people.
_____________ 595. What period that cantilever or corbel became one of the construction
principles.
_____________ 596. A passage grave that has a corridor lined with large stone slab leading to a
circular chamber often having a corbelled unit.
_____________ 597. Monumental gateway to an Egyptian temple consisting with slanting walls
flanking the entrance portal.
_____________ 598. First type of Egyptian tomb.
_____________ 599. A pillared hall in which the roof rest on columns.
_____________ 600. The grandest Egyptian temple.
_____________ 601. The principal room of an Anatolian house.
_____________ 602. Private apartment in Assyrian architecture.
_____________ 603. The space between Doric and Triglyphs.
_____________ 604. Sacred enclosure usually the highest part of a city, allowed to be the
Citadel, an Acropolis or upper city.
_____________ 605. In Hellenic period, this temple boost because of its 100 ionic columns
designed by Deinocrates.
_____________ 606. A subterranean stone, vault construction shaped like an old-fashioned
beehive.
_____________ 607. Sculptured female figures used as columns or supports.
_____________ 608. Carved male figure.
_____________ 609. Sculptured female bearing baskets on their heads.
_____________ 610. An ornaments used especially of floors and is often in chevron or
herringbone pattern.
_____________ 611. Country house in Roman.
_____________ 612. Kind of buttress used for counter act oblique truss.
_____________ 613. In Byzantine architecture, it is the church of divine wisdom.
_____________ 614. A commemorative monument in honor of victorious generals.
_____________ 615. In Roman architecture, it is considered to be the most sacred shrine and the
center and source of Roman life and power.
_____________ 616. The only fortification that can be seen from the moon that is 1400 miles
long with walls 20 ft-30 ft high and 25 ft in thickness.
_____________ 617. The most typical Chinese building usually octagonal in plan, odd number
of stories usually 9-13 storeys.
_____________ 618. Oldest existing pagoda with 15 storeys.
_____________ 619. They are called inns for travellers or merchants in Muslim structure.
_____________ 620. A tall tower in or continuous to, a mosque arch stairs leading up to one or
more balconies from which the faithful are called to prayer.
_____________ 621. America’s single contribution in architecture.
_____________ 622. Axis oriented toward Mecca.
_____________ 623. The general character of the Romanesque architecture.
_____________ 624. The designer of Crystal palace, London.
_____________ 625. A scroll or ribbon-like motif terminating in a spiral.
_____________ 626. The set of a priest, generally of masonry formed in the wall on south side
of the chancel.
_____________ 627. A projecting block or spur of stone carved with foliage in Gothic
architecture, to decorate the ranking lines formed by angles of spires and
canopies.
_____________ 628. The top of an architrave, above both the beam and the regula, but below
the triglyphs.
_____________ 629. A small tower at the angles of building sometimes over showing and built
on corbels sometimes rising from the ground.
_____________ 630. A parapet having a series of indentations knows, as embrasures between
which are raised portions called merlons.
_____________ 631. A secluded room often one behind the cells of a temple.
_____________ 632. The main enclosed room of a temple of a temple-like building without
surrounding columns.
_____________ 633. A curve in the vertical profile of a column.
_____________ 634. The curved cushion-like element in a doric or sometimes ionic capital
making the transition from the shaft of the column to the abacus.
_____________ 635. A gallery behind an open colonnade or arcade.
_____________ 636. The tapering termination of a tower which the result of elongating an
ordinary pyramidal or conical roof.
_____________ 637. Is an arch starting form a detached pier and abutting against the wall to
take the thrust of the vaulting.
_____________ 638. A tower crowned with a spire.
_____________ 639. A slender spire rising from the roof.
_____________ 640. A continuous pedestal.
_____________ 641. That part of the church where the altar is placed.
_____________ 642. That part of a cruciform church projecting at right angles to the main
building.
_____________ 643. Covered passages around an open space or garth, connecting the church to
the chapter house, refectory and other parts of the monastery.
_____________ 644. A tower raised above a roof pierced to admit light.
_____________ 645. A building contains pictures or picture gallery.
_____________ 646. A building in classical architecture for plans, flowers and running water
ornamented with statues forming a cool and agreeable retreat.
_____________ 647. The dome (copula) of a circular building.
_____________ 648. A continuous base or substructure on which a colonnade is place.
_____________ 649. A type of half lapped joint used to resist tension.
_____________ 650. One of a number of short vertical members often circular in section, used
to a stair support hand rail
_____________ 651. Arrangement and design of window in a building.
_____________ 652. Total volume of hollow block cell.
_____________ 653. Lateral ties used for 57 mm main bars for column.
_____________ 654. Refer to the portion of a beam where bending moment changes front.
_____________ 655. A brick laid on its edge so that its end is visible.
_____________ 656. A short flat piece of lumber which is bolted, nailed or screwed to butting
pieces in order to splice them together.
_____________ 657. Diagonal bracing in pairs between adjacent floor joists to prevent the joist
from twisting.
_____________ 658. A bar used to hold the reinforcement on a beam.
_____________ 659. A roof wherein the four slides are sloping towards the center terminating at
a point.
_____________ 660. A metal seat used to connect girder and floor joist at the same level.
_____________ 661. A slender structural unit introduced into the ground to transmit load to
underground strata.
_____________ 662. Brick set on end with the narrow side showing.
_____________ 663.Consists of finely divided solid particles added to the vehicle to contribute
color and durability to the paint.
_____________ 664. End lapping of corrugated 6.1 roofing sheets.
_____________ 665. Inclined structural member that supports the steps of a stair.
_____________ 666. Structural steel shape having unsymmetrical balance.
_____________ 667. Hooked end of a 12 mm stirrups.
_____________ 668. Continuous footing which supports several columns in a row.
_____________ 669. A device used a guide of the hand saw in cutting object to form a meter
joint.
_____________ 670. Minimum thickness of suspended RC slab.
_____________ 671. XYLADECOR is a product of.
_____________ 672. Wall that supports weight from above as well as their own deed weight.
_____________ 673. The distance between inflection points in the column when it breaks.
_____________ 674. Amount of space measured in cubic meters.
_____________ 675. A bended rod to resist shear and diagonal stresses in a concrete beam.
_____________ 676. Most important to define the strength of a concrete mix.
_____________ 677. Another term for plaster board.
_____________ 678. Face or front of a building.
_____________ 679. An opening on the roof for admitting light.
_____________ 680. Wood coming from trees with needle leaves, rather than bread leaves.
_____________ 681. Kind of brick used for high temperature.
_____________ 682. A railed strip incorporated in rough concrete wall to be plastered to act as
guide and support for finish trim around opening and near the base of the
wall.
_____________ 683. Distance between two structural supports.
_____________ 684. Stone placed on a slope to prevent erosion.
_____________ 685. Process of removing concrete forms in the curved concrete.
_____________ 686. A structural membrane spanning from truss to truss or supporting rafters.
_____________ 687. A passageway around the apse of a church or covered walk of a cloister.
_____________ 688. In medieval church archre, a shallow passage above the arches of the nave
and choir and below the clerestory.
_____________ 689. A roman public square, surrounded by monumental buildings, usually a
basilica and a temple, the center of civic life.
_____________ 690. The spine-shaped termination of a projecting point or angle of a roof.
_____________ 691. A term applied to an edifice surrounded by a single row or range of
columns.
_____________ 692. A type of inlaid work used by the early Romans to embellish floors, panels
and the like.
_____________ 693. A process wherein pieces of metal is heated prior to changing its shape or
dimension, under FCP.
_____________ 694. The finished frame surrounding a door.
_____________ 695. Doors lock with a spring bolt controlled by one or both knobs and dead
bolt controlled by a key.
_____________ 696. A raised platform reserved for seating of speakers dignitaries
_____________ 697. Door consisting of two separate leaves, one above the other.
_____________ 698. Pilipino term for baseboard.
_____________ 699. Clay roofing approximately semi cylindrical in shape laid in courses with
units having their convex side alternately up and down.
_____________ 700. Pilipino term for rafter.
_____________ 701. The wall of Intramuros.
_____________ 702. A monumental floor-sided stone shaft mostly covered with hieroglyphics.
_____________ 703. The lowest member of entablature.
_____________ 704. The basic arrangement of an architectural composition.
_____________ 705. The transverse portion of a church crossing the pain axis, at a right angle
and producing a cruciform plan.
_____________ 706. A simplified version of the roman order having a plain frieze and no
mutules in the cornice.
_____________ 707. Design which is planned, arranged or organized.
_____________ 708. A long arcaded entrance porch to a Christian basilican church.
_____________ 709. External expression of a function of a building.
_____________ 710. Sculptured female figures bearing baskets on their heads used as columns.
_____________ 711. A gallery behind an open arcade or colonnade.
_____________ 712. The development of vaulting is one of its characters.
_____________ 713. Harmonious repetition of treatment of details.
_____________ 714. Scroll or spiral occurring in Ionic, Corinthian or composite capitals.
_____________ 715. One of the contributions of Gothic archre.
_____________ 716. The middle aisles of the church.
_____________ 717. Presence of two conflicting elements in a composition.
_____________ 718.Sound absorption units in honor of a pioneer in architectural acoustics.
_____________ 719. A sound having energy at one and only one frequency.
_____________ 720. The number of pressure fluctuations per second caused by the passage of
sound waves.
_____________ 721. A device for converting alternating current into direct current.
_____________ 722. A climate factor that is considered in the structural and architectural design
of tall buildings.
_____________ 723. The horizontal distance between the nosing of two consecutive steps.
_____________ 724. Study of human space and movement needs.
_____________ 725. Implies in most architectural compositions, real differences exist among
their forms and spaces.
_____________ 726. Refers to the manner in which the surfaces of a form come together to
define its shape and volume.
_____________ 727. Given by the phenomena of the alternating figure and ground alternating
perspective and retinal rivalry.
_____________ 728. To put side by side or close together. To pose for a painting or picture
taking, to put in position.
_____________ 729. Use of intimate fusion between different elements of the same or different
materials is a relatively new technique based on a certain modern
invention such as reinforced concrete, plastic laminated plywood and
welded iron structures.
_____________ 730. These systems are based on the dimensions and properties of the human
body.
_____________ 731. A harmonious measure to human scale universally applicable to
architecture and mechanics.
_____________ 732. Human dimensions. Tangible basis for producing man-machine
relationship.
_____________ 733. Which the form is generated by some two or three dimensional geometric
systems, originated by the Egyptians given extensive philosophical
stiffening by the Greeks.
_____________ 734. A formula discovered by the author as based from Le Corbusier.
_____________ 735. Study of meaning, which is usually thought of the meanings of words.
_____________ 736. Assumes primary importance as the basic strategy of perception whereby
learning and perhaps heredity establish what symbols define the important
features of the sensory milieu.
_____________ 737. Which available materials are used, earth, stones, tree trunks, leaves, reeds,
bamboos, animal skin, tendons were put together initially by trial and error
until a building form is achieve which actually worked.
_____________ 738. Which member of a particular culture share a fixed metal image of what
the design of the building form should be like using the materials which
happen to be available at a particular place with a particular climate to
house an established lifestyle.
_____________ 739. Drawing of analogies (usually visual) into the solution of one’s design
problems with existing buildings with forms from nature, from painting
and so on.
_____________ 740. Define geometrically as a line that is divided such that lesser portion is to
greater as the greater is to be whole. Based on square.
_____________ 741. Is an attitude towards art ______ of throwing to the winds all technical
cleverness, to return to the primitive or the archaic, back to the well springs
where art flows strong, pure and unspoiled.
_____________ 742. Characterized by an attitude towards everyday existence to transport in
another ontological word.
_____________ 743. School in art which attacks established values, proclaims the futility of
reason, and bankruptcy of art.
_____________ 744. Stresses the mechanics of movement. It emphasizes modern life, its steely
noises, whoopee jerks, and bum squirms. It attacks the veneration of good
taste and art criticism and anything antique.
_____________ 745. Composing materials gathered form various sources, systems etc., Eclectic
method or system of thought.

_____________ 746. A movement in painting, sculpture, arch. Especially in Russia during

1920’s characterized by abstract and geometric design and massive
structural form.
_____________ 747. The quality or state of being radical, especially in politics, radical
principles, ideals, methods or practices.
_____________ 748. An early 20th century school of abstract painting characterized by non-
symmetrical geometric figures.
_____________ 749. Anything resembling a living thing in its complexity of a structure or
function.
_____________ 750. The doctrine that worth or value of anything is determined solely by its
utility.
_____________ 751. The fervid spirit or methods characterized by religious revivals;
evangelical enthusiasm.
_____________ 752. The doctrine that matter is the only reality and that everything in the world
including thoughts, will and feeling can be explained only in forms of
matter opposed to idealism.
_____________ 753. Imaginative treatment that seeks to show the artist’s or author’s conception
or perfection; representation of imagined types, or ideals; opposed to
realism.
_____________ 754. Aesthetic doctrine of the cult of beauty, art and good taste.
_____________ 755. Adherence to conventional form or usages.
_____________ 756.Theory or practice emphasizing the necessity of adopting the structure or
design of anything to its function.
_____________ 757. The theory, practice, or methods of a group of late 19th century painters
who revolted against the objectivity and scientific naturalism of
impressionism, and placed emphasis upon the subjective viewpoint of the
artist rather than upon literal impressionist.
_____________ 758. A system or tendency in philosophy which tests are validity of all concepts
by this practical result.
_____________ 759. The doctrine that certainty in knowledge is impossible and that probability
is a sufficient basis for action and belief.
_____________ 760. By definition, dedicated to utility and the expression of function becomes
architectural homage to a non-spiritual object.
_____________ 761. The formation or occurrence of pseudo morphs (false or irregular form, a
mineral possessing the external form characteristic of another)
_____________ 762. By definition, committed to remembrance and so to the appearance.
_____________ 763. The theory and practice of the abstract, especially in art; cult or abstract
pictures, statues, etc.,
_____________ 764. Strict or excessive attention to or insistence on outward forms and customs,
as in art or religion.
_____________ 765. Ecclesiastical principles, rituals, customs, etc., strong attachment to these
things.
_____________ 766. An eclectic method pr system of thought using or upholding of such a
method or system.
_____________ 767. Effective mode use of the past and lintel. Use of lighter materials resulted
that was very light and graceful. Column orders in architecture.
_____________ 768. New attitude to life and art, this passionate delight in the world resulted in
a sense.
_____________ 769. A way of seeing in which the mind seems to have no other function than
the natural one of providing the physical sensation of recognition of form.
_____________ 770. The use of forms which are similar on either side of a vertical axis. They
may give a feeling of the exactness of equal relationship but are
sufficiently varied to prevent visual monotony.
_____________ 771. Usually more or less irregular shapes which resemble the freely developed
curves found in live organisms.
_____________ 772. Surrounding on all sides, an environment or its distinct atmosphere.
_____________ 773. Environment, social or cultural setting.
_____________ 774. Generalized way of design derived from folk architecture.
_____________ 775. The use if intimate fusion between different elements of the same or
different materials is a relatively new technique based on a certain modern
invention such as reinforced concrete, plastic laminated plywood and
welded iron structure.
_____________ 776. To form after an arrangement of parts or form or figures determined by
the arrangement of parts.
_____________ 777. A joining together. The whole situation, background or environment
 relevant to a particular event, personality, creation.
_____________ 778. Systematic method of problem solving, builds upon the concept by helping
to make the best use of the design tools acquired in creativity.
_____________ 779. Letting your imagination soar and then engineer it back to reality, and
achieve balance.
_____________ 780. Are instance given by the phenomena of the alternating “figure and
ground” alternating perspective and retrial rivalry.
_____________ 781. A phenomenon wherein drawings consisting of black lines, any line which
surrounds an area, which is recognized as representing an object is quickly
picked out by observer, and it then seems to him to stand out from the
background in an obvious manner.
_____________ 782. In the orchestra of an ancient Greek theatre, a small altar dedicated to
Baechuc, usually at the center of the orchestra circle and marked by a
white stone.
_____________ 783. Of an ancient house, a door which opens on the street.
_____________ 784. In roofing, a hook for fastening sheet lead.
_____________ 785. An open court within a building.
_____________ 786. That property of certain gels of becoming liquid when shaken or stirred.
_____________ 787. A niche or recess in which votive offerings were made.
_____________ 788. In early Greek architecture, an inner room or chamber, especially in
women’s apartment.
_____________ 789. The arrangement of windows.
_____________ 790. Having four columns in front or end row; consisting of a row or rows of
four columns.
_____________ 791. A courtyard with porticoes or open colonnades on each of its four sides.
_____________ 792. A structure characterized by having four gateways as an architectural
feature.
_____________ 793. In roman architecture, an arched vault or ceiling especially when flattened.
_____________ 794. An earth embankment, flattened at the top.
_____________ 795. A low wall or railing around the edge of a roof. A part of any wall entirely
above the roofline.
_____________ 796. A figure of the upper part of the human body terminated in a plain block of
rectangular form; a terminal figure.
_____________ 797. A sacred enclosure surrounding temples or other holy spot.
_____________ 798. A dado of a plinth or pedestal.
_____________ 799. Any device designed to indicate movement of formwork.
_____________ 800. A roof over a sarcophagus, usually double-sloped and supported by narrow
columns.
_____________ 801. Covering, forming a roof like structure.
_____________ 802. Of or performing to building or construction architecture.
_____________ 803. An early movement in the arts, especially ion drama, characterized by the
non-objective use of symbols, stereotypes characters, stylization, etc., to
give objective expression to inner experience.
_____________ 804. Like a roof in a form or use.
_____________ 805. The reader’s platform in synagogue.
_____________ 806. A small lobby or entrance room.
_____________ 807. To work out a surface defect, as a varnished surface.
_____________ 808. A hoist.
_____________ 809. A waterproof cloth especially one used in large sheets for covering.
_____________ 810. A gradual thickness in an elongated object, as in a spire.
_____________ 811. An adobe-like building material consisting mainly of earth or clay.
_____________ 812. A continuous pedestal also the enclosing platform of the arena of an
amphitheatre.
_____________ 813. A Swedish pine shingle for roofing.
_____________ 814. A waterproof lining for a basement floor and walls.
_____________ 815. A chimney pot of long and slender form intended to improve the draft.
_____________ 816. A cone shaped hardwood tool used by plumbers; forced into the end of
lead pipe to increases its velocity.
_____________ 817. A series of arches supported by arrow of columns.
_____________ 818. A column drum.
_____________ 819. To compact a material or surface, such as earth or fresh concrete by
repeated blows.
_____________ 820. A mechanism for shifting, raising or lowering object or materials, such as
rope and pulley block or an assembly which ropes and pulley blocks.
______________ 821. A place of assembly for Jewish worship.
______________ 822. A hall in which the clergy of a whole diocese meet.
______________ 823. A characteristic of any large, curving form, mass or shape, e.g., the sweep
of a curved wall.
______________ 824. A small flat band between mouldings to separate them from each other.
______________ 825. A horizontal piece of wood, stone, or steel across the top of a door and
window openings to bear the weight of the walls above the opening.
______________ 826. A part of a building used for entertainment, exhibits, etc., at a fair or park
often open air and highly ornamented.
______________ 827. The flat surface created by slicing off the square edge or corner of a block
of wood, stone etc.,
______________ 828. A portion of a square column, usually set within or against a wall for the
purpose of strengthening the wall, also a decorative column attached to a
wall.
______________ 829. Stage for actors on theatres during the Greek period.
______________ 830. A method of forming stonework with roughened surfaces and recessed
joints, principally employed in renaissance buildings.
______________ 831. (a secluded place) covered passages round an open space, connecting the
church to the chapter houses, refectory and other parts of the monastery.
______________ 832. A French-term coined by Le Corbusier to describe pillars or stills upon
which a building is raised.
______________ 833. Space for clergy and choir separated from a low screen wall from a low
body of a church.
______________ 834. Sun shield. Horizontal gear-operated, adjustable baffles set beyond a
wide, heat dispersing balcony.
______________ 835. It is a period in French gothic which is characterized by circular windows
with wheel tracery.
______________ 836. Measurement of the size proportions of the human body.
______________ 837. Measurements of man implemented to accommodate him to machines.
______________ 838. A large entrance gateway into a courtyard. A kind of porch roof
projecting over a driveway at an entrance as of a house. Entry porch for
buildings.
______________ 839. A projection from a wall to create additional strength and support.
______________ 840. Roman bridges.
______________ 841. A projection over windows and doors to protect them from the weather.
______________ 842. Any public space or thorough fare which has been dedicated or deeded to
the public or public use as a passageway with a width or not more than
3.00 mts.
______________ 843. A structure of thin wooden or metal strips crossing each other in an open
pattern of squares, diamonds, etc., on which vines or other creeping plants
are lattice.
______________ 844. Water cistern found in the center of the atrium.
______________ 845. ( rock work) a term applied to a type of renaissance ornament in which
rock like forms, fantastic scrolls and crimped shells are worked up
together in a profusion and confusion of details, often without organic
coherence, but presently a lavish display of decoration.
______________ 846. A large pipe or conduit made for bringing water from a distant source,
any elevated structure built to support such as a pipe or conduit.
______________ 847. Walls designed to carry lateral load.
______________ 848. Mild steel reinforcement rods and forms to block off openings in the slab
are all in place, ready for next slab to be poured.
______________ 849. A projection in a masonry wall made by setting courses beyond the lower
ones.
______________ 850. Any of various plasters used for covering walls, especially an exterior
wall covering in which cement is used.
______________ 851. A notch, hole, or space cut, as in piece of wood, to receive a projecting
part shaped to fit.
______________ 852. Range of vision or sight.
______________ 853. The under surface at a projecting structure.
______________ 854. A long bridge consisting at a series of short concrete or masonry spans
supported on piers or towers, usually to carry a road or railroad over
valley, gorge etc.,
______________ 855. A small structure built on top of a roof to provide ventilation.
______________ 856. A very tall building.
______________ 857. Any of a series of small square blocks projecting like teeth, as from under
a cornice.
______________ 858. Concrete shapes mad separately before being used in a structure.
______________ 859. A glassed-in porch room, etc., where the people sun themselves, as in
treating illness; sunroom.
______________ 860. A long passageway or hall. Especially one of which several rooms open.
______________ 861. The outline of a figure, mass, land, etc.,
______________ 862. An open space, as in a park or railroad station.
______________ 863. Are reserved for entertaining guest in bahay kubo.
______________ 864. The largest and oldest cave dwelling found in southwest of Palawan.
______________ 865. Ifugao house southern strain.
______________ 866. The low table found in the bulwagan.
______________ 867. The granary in traditional Bontoc house.
______________ 868. Used as fold storage in the bahay na bato. It is the room adjacent to the
kitchen used as food storage.
______________ 869. The Ibaloy house for the well to do families.
______________ 870. The Apayao house northern strain.
______________ 871. The cistern in the bahay na bato.
______________ 872.The passageway in the Mangyan communal house.
______________ 873. The only entry allowed to be used by the Chinese in Intramuros.
______________ 874. The Maranao royal house and the ancestral house for the datu and his
family.
______________ 875. The ground floor of the Bontoc house.
______________ 876. Another name for narra wood in Ilocos.
______________ 877. The central space used as a sleeping area in a T’boli house.
______________ 878. The overhanging second floor of the bahay na bato.
______________ 879. The decorative clear storey found above the windows of the bahay na
bato.
______________ 880. Bontoc house southern strain.
______________ 881. The Badjao house used primarily for storage and sleeping.
______________ 882. The cooking area in the bahay kubo, also paglutuan.
______________ 883. The traditional Maranao house for the ordinary members of the
community.
______________ 884. Referred to as the big house in the Ivatan house.
______________ 885. Traditional Tausug house.
______________ 886. Traditional Kankanay house.
______________ 887. The only surviving structure of the 1945 war in Intramuros.
______________ 888. The private sleeping room in the bahay kubo.
______________ 889. In the kitchen of the bahay kubo, the table on top of which is the river
stone and a shoe shape.
______________ 890. Later called bangguera, this is used as a place for drying and storing pots
and pans.
______________ 891. The unroofed area where water jars used as a place for drinking, washing
and bathing are kept.
______________ 892. A detached structure from he bahay kubo where palay is kept.
______________ 893. The lowest level of the Isneg house.
______________ 894. The central area found in the lower Kalinga house.
______________ 895. The tower atop the torogan where the princess and her ladies in waiting
hide during occasions.
______________ 896. The emergency hideout behind the headboard of the sultan’s bed.
______________ 897. The porch in the Tausug house, when found near the kitchen as an open
extended platform.
______________ 898. In the T’boli house, it is the side are used for as working and
conversational space.
______________ 899. The utility room of the T’boli house.
______________ 900. Found in the T’boli house, it is located in the lowa and the blaba and is
regarded as the are where the head of the house entertains guests and
performs rites under a curtained canopy.
______________ 901. The sleeping quarters for the wives and children of the headman in T’boli
house.
______________ 902. The utility room of the T’boli house.
______________ 903. The toilet of the T’boli house.
______________ 904. Found in the ground floor of the bahay na bato, it is where carriages and
saints floats usually kept.
______________ 905. The horse table of the bahay na bato.
______________ 906. The storage room for keeping old furniture and palay in the bahay na
bato.
______________ 907. Mezzanine found directly underneath the master bedroom and elevated at
about a meter from the ground.
______________ 908. In the bahay na bato, it is the immediate room from the stairs in spacious
hall used for entertaining friends.
______________ 909. The flat open terrace open to the toilet, bath and kitchen areas and also
used a laundry- drying place and serving area for the servants.
______________ 910.The living room where balls and dances during fiestas and other special
occasions take place in the bahay na bato.
______________ 911. The toilet which is usually adjacent to the service area.
______________ 912. It is the overhanging balcony where one can water processions or parades
passing the street.
______________ 913. The space found immediately above the main entrance of the Filipino
church.
______________ 914. The screened hanging balcony which is used by the priests and nuns when
performing religious ceremonies unexposed to the public.
______________ 915. First constructed by the Jesuit priest, Fr. Juan de Salazar and recently
declared the national shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
______________ 916. A witness to several occasions of the Philippine history, this church was
the seat of the Malolos Congress and the site of the inaugural of the first
republic, built by Augustinian flair Fr. Melchor.
______________ 917. The oldest church in Bohol built by Fr. Juan de Torres and Fr. Gabriel
Sanchez.
______________ 918. Built by Fr. Ramon Dalmau, this is one of the largest churches in
Pangasinan which is said to be the second best bell tower in the
Philippines.
______________ 919. First builder was Fr. Diego Cerra and the latest reconstruction was done
in 1975 by Arch. Francisco Manosa.
______________ 920. This church in Ilocos which has the famous sinking bell tower.
______________ 921. Known today as the Basilica of the Immaculate Concepcion, it’s first
 arch. was bishop Domingo Salazar while the arch of the present church is
Arch. Fernando Ocampo.
______________ 922. A church in Bohol which contains the number of murals on the walls and
ceilings.
______________ 923. Declared a national landmark in August 1973. This Iloilo church’s façade
is displaying Filipino folk art in the form stylized coconut tree, St.
Christopher carrying child Jesus.
______________ 924. Built by Franciscan priest Fr. Blas de la Madre, this church in Rizal
whose design depicts the heavy Spanish Baroque was declared a national
treasure.
______________ 925. This church was first built by the Augustinian Fr. Miguel Marguia, has an
unusual large bell which was made of approximately 70 sacks/ bags of
coins donated by the town people.
______________ 926. The architect of the Quiapo before its restoration in 1988.
______________ 927. Declared a national landmark in 1973, it is the first of all steel building in
the Philippines.
______________ 928. Beam ends of the Maranao house; its most striking feature.
______________ 929. First Filipino architect.
______________ 930. Patron saint for architects and architecture.

______________ 931. Establishment of Phil. Architects Society.

______________ 932. Establishment of Phil. Institute of Architects and planners.
______________ 933. Establishment of United Architects of the Philippines.
______________ 934. What is LPA?
______________ 935. What is APGA?
______________ 936. Who was the Architect of the famous Quiapo church in manila?
______________ 937. What was the traditional octagonal-shaped house of the Kalinga?
______________ 938. In Chinese construction, what type of joint connects closely arranged
columns lined along the depth of the building by small beams let into the
columns to form a framework?
______________ 939. In Japanese details, what do you call a carving enshrined on a beam, took
its name from its shape, literally, “frog’s crotch”.
______________ 940. Who was the architect whose dictum was, “Architecture must respond to
local conditions”.
______________ 941. What do you call the Indonesian type of house whose literal meaning is a
long house?
______________ 942. It is the overhanging balcony where one can watch processions or parades
passing the street or simply a conversation area.
______________ 943. Who was the architect of the country’s first Medical Hotel, Quezon City
Medical Center.
______________ 944. Who was the architect of the Jai-alai building?
______________ 945. Who designed the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas?
______________ 946. It is the church that is considered as one of the tallest in the country.
______________ 947. It is a figure form placed on top of the roof and was used as protection
from evil spirits of the Ifugaos.
______________ 948. It is the largest Buddhist Stupa in the world built in Central Java, built on
the side of a natural hill.
______________ 949. It is an Indian type of monastery whose complexes are usually made of
brick.
______________ 950. It is an Indian type of gateway.
______________ 951. Who designed the Asian General Hospital in Alabang, Muntilupa?
______________ 952. It is an Ilokano type of storage room which is used as a primary storage of
cogon sheathings.
______________ 953. Who was the architect of Shangri-La?
______________ 954. What was the traditional type of Ilokano House whose posts are made of
hardwood material?
______________ 955. This church fortress was built to avert raids of the Muslim pirates. It is
also included in the UNESCO’s World Heritage list.
______________ 956. Who designed the Lung Center of the Philippines?
______________ 957. A detached structure located some few feet away from the house which
functioned as a toilet.
______________ 958. It is located at the rearmost part of the house, it is used as a utility area.
______________ 959. It was an ancestral house of the Maranaosand was used for social and
political ceremonies of the datu.
______________ 960. It is a tower shrine which rises above a rectangular cella.
______________ 961. It is the side area, used as a working and conversational space.
______________ 962. Who was the architect of Araneta Coliseum?
______________ 963. What was used as a family area of the Tausugs?
______________ 964. Who was the architect of ABS-CBN building?
______________ 965. Who designed the PGH?

PHILOSOPHIES
______________ 966. “Ornamentation is a crime”
______________ 967. “Less is more”
______________ 968. “Architecture is a magnificent display of volumes put together in the
light”
“A house is like a machine to live in”
______________ 969. “Architecture is the will of epoch translated into space”
______________ 970. “Straight lines belong to man; curved line belong to God”
______________ 971. “It is better to be good than to be original”
______________ 972. “ Columns walk with you”
______________ 973. “Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men’s blood; make big
plans, aim high in hope and work”
______________ 974. “Functionalism does not demand a rigidly geometric style”
“A city is subjected to growth, decay and rebuilt”
______________ 975. “Form should follow function”
______________ 976. “Design is a language of forms, and like any other language, it grows and
adapt but essentially remains the same”
______________ 977. “Nothing which is not useful can be beautiful”
______________ 978. “Form follows fantasy”
______________ 979. “Architecture is the application of geometry to solid matter”
______________ 980. “The technical and economic potentiality of architecture is independent of
their political views of its exponents”
______________ 981. “Have faith in your own reason”
______________ 982. “We shape our building, our building shapes us”
______________ 983. “Details are the soul of our building”
______________ 984. “Architecture must be true to itself, to its land and its people”
______________ 985. “Architecture form proceed from the character of the institution it was
intended into house rather from books of design”
______________ 986. “In loving work there is honor”
______________ 987. “Reason behind every line”
______________ 988. “For everything we do, there must be an emotional reason and logical
end”
______________ 989. “Design must be simple, elegant, functional and economical”
______________ 990. “Honesty, integrity and diligence”
______________ 991. “Virtue of an architect”
May the architect be high minded, not arrogant but faithful
Just and easy to deal with, without chivalric
Not let his mind be occupied in receiving gifts
But let him preserve his good name with dignity.
 WRITINGS
______________ 992. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Learning from Las Vegas
______________ 993. The Role of Decoration in Architecture is in My Opinion A Dual One
______________ 994. A Peaceful Way To Urban Reform.
______________ 995. De Re Aedificatura (first architectural treaties of renaissance)
Della Pittura
______________ 996. Poliorketa
______________ 997. Maryland Gazette
______________ 998. Entretiens
______________ 999. Art and Technology – A New Unity
______________ 1000. Le Fabriche E I Disegni Di Andrea Palladio Raccolti E Illustrati
Le Tereme Dei Romani, Disegnate Da A, Palladio
______________ 1001. De La Distribution Des Maisons
L Architecture Francaise (Grand Blondel)
Discours Sur La Necessite De L Stude De L Archtecture
Cours D Architecture
______________ 1002. Livre D Architecture Contenant Les Principes Generaux De Cet Art
______________ 1003. Manifesto On Modern Architecture
______________ 1004. Reigle Generale D Architecture
Petit Traicte De Geometric
______________ 1005. The Baths of the Romans
______________ 1006. Vitruvius Britannicus
______________ 1007. Treaties on Civil Architecture
______________ 1008. Ornamenti Diversi Di Porte E Finestre
______________ 1009. Nouveau Traits De Tpute L Architecture
______________ 1010. Furstlicher Baumeister, Oder: Architectun Civilie
Architectura Theoritica – Practica (handbook to ornament)
______________ 1011. Nouvelles Inventions
Architecture

______________ 1012. A Treaty on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening

Cottage Residences
Notes About Buildings in the Country
The Architecture of Country Houses
______________ 1013. Recueil Et Parallele Des Edifices En Tout Genre
______________ 1014. Precis Et lecons D Architecture
______________ 1015. Trattato D Architectura
______________ 1016. Entwurf Einer Historischens Architektur
______________ 1017. Recueil De Decorations Interieurse
______________ 1018. Book of Architecture
______________ 1019. Architectura Civile
______________ 1020. Recueil De Projets D Architecture
______________ 1021. Recueil De Esquisses D Architecture
______________ 1022. A New and Complete System of Architecture
______________ 1023. Rural Architecture is the Chinese Taste
______________ 1024. The Builders Assistant (the first American book to illustrate the orders
of column)
______________ 1025. Recueil Des Plans
______________ 1026. Plans Et Elevation De La Place Royale De Nancy
______________ 1027. Tomorrow
Garden Cities of Tomorrow
______________ 1028. Principles and Practices of Architecture
______________ 1029. Architecture Moderna
______________ 1030. The Landscape – A Didactic poem
Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste
______________ 1031. Betrachtungen Uber Den Wahren Geschmack Der Alten In Der
Baukunre
______________ 1032. A Sure Guide to Builders
The Builders Complete Assistant
Gothic Architecture Restores and Improved
______________ 1033. Essai Sur L. Architecture
______________ 1034. Desseins De Plusteurs Palais
______________ 1035. Maniere De Bien Bastir Pour Toutes Soiras De Personnes
______________ 1036. L Architecture Consideree Sous Le Rapport De L Art, Des Moeurs Et
De La Legislation
______________ 1037. The Architecture of L. B. Alberti
______________ 1038. Elementi D Architectura Lodoliana
______________ 1039. Ornament and Crime
______________ 1040. Encyclopedia of Gardening
Encyclopedia of Agriculture
Encyclopedia of Plants
Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture
Gardeners Magazine
______________ 1041. The Hobby Horse
______________ 1042. L. Architecture Francaise
______________ 1043. An essay in Defense of Ancient Architecture
Lectures on Architecture
Select Architecture
______________ 1044. Plans, Elevations and Sections of Noblemen’s and Gentlemen’s Houses
______________ 1045. Le Antichita Roma
Descrizione Dello Chiese
Quattro Libri Deli Architectura
______________ 1046. Ordonnance Des Cinq Especes De Colonnes
______________ 1047. Essay on the Picturesque
______________ 1048. Specimen
Gothic Ornaments
Contrasts
The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture
______________ 1049. Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening
Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening
An inquiry into the Changes of Taste in Landscape Gardening
Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening
______________ 1050. An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England
______________ 1051. Seven Lamps of Architecture (sacrifice, truth, power, beauty, life,
memory and obedience)
The Stones of Venice
______________ 1052. Termes Don’t on Use En Architecture
______________ 1053. Remarks on Secular and Domestic Architecture
Personal and Professional Recollections
Cleanings from Westminster Abbey
______________ 1054. L Architecture
______________ 1055. The First and Chief Grounds of Architecture
______________ 1056. Der Stadtebau
______________ 1057. Specimens of Continental Architecture
______________ 1058. Antiquities of Athens
______________ 1059. Die Stadtkrone
______________ 1060. Le Vite Dei Piu Celebri Architetti E Scultori Veneziani
______________ 1061. Recueil De Plans Et Facades Des Principaux Monuments Construits A
St. Petersburg.
______________ 1062. Town Planning in Architecture
______________ 1063. Vite de Piu Eccelenti Architetti, Pittori E Scultori Italiani
______________ 1064. Regole Delle Cinque Ordini
______________ 1065. Colleccion De Papeles Criticos Sobre La Arquitectura
______________ 1066. Carmen
Dictionnaire Raisonne De L Architecture Francaise
______________ 1067. Architectura Civile
______________ 1068. De Architectura (ten books of architecture)
______________ 1069. Architectura
Compertimenta
Variae Architecturae Formae
______________ 1070. Complete Body of Architecture
______________ 1071. Antiquities of Magna Graecia
______________ 1072. Modulor
La Maison de Homes
Vers Une Architecture
Quandles Cathedral
______________ 1073. The New Architecture and The Bauhaus and Scope of World
Architecture
______________ 1074. Sun and Shadow
The Philosophy of Architecture
______________ 1075. Antiquities of Rome
I Quatird Libri Dell Architectura

ISM OF ARCHITECTURE
______________ 1076. Serve people who live and work for them and to create a living art rather
than a copy from a book, (before world war I)
______________ 1077. By the turned of the century, architects sensible to the changes were
going in society, science, technology and psychology, were struggling
with the problems of identification of structural ideas and the increase
important notion of providing an architecture appropriate to its time.
______________ 1078. Bending of a new structure with an old.
______________ 1079. The architects designed his museum as a pyramid glass, he doesn’t want
to destroy the ancient style of structure around it so the best the
surrounding building been part of it as a museum.
______________ 1080. Used to describe the works of those architects who prefigured the
interpretation and functionalist of the modern movement.
______________ 1081. Observatory and astrophysical laboratory is a wholly plastic expression.
Completely devoid of historical allusions, it’s form being symbolic of
optional instruments designed for pour concrete, it is actually executed
in cement and covered brickwork.
______________ 1082. It was a passionate pleading for idea on form and space in architecture as
well as other parts.

______________ 1083. Movement toward Natural Style in which people could feel at home,
could express today rather than far-of imagining/ imaginary future.
______________ 1084. The individuals who demand a radical shaft in emphasis from the
building of the past to the design of those which meet the demands of
modern life.
______________ 1085. A man is part of society or man is part of a whole.
No discrimination of the users to the lookers.
______________ 1086. Distinctive in design. It is the idea of building monuments. Anything
that standout in its form, an object should last and with external validity.
______________ 1087. Interlocking spaces, sharp planar geometry of international style.
______________ 1088. One style typical of his hometown or regions.
______________ 1089. Choosing features from the past styles and combining them into building
for present day as beautiful and historical but cannot satisfy needs and
standards of modern building and could not fully express the feelings
and needs of modern people-escape to the past…
______________ 1090. Returned in the use of Roman orders in modern age. Design patterned to
classical design.
______________ 1091. A self-emulating style on particular local historical motifs and devices as
wells the associative aspects of the great historical periods on
architecture so beloved by eclectics.
______________ 1092. Relates to the theory of pure plastic art which had a pronounced
influence on Dutch architects.
______________ 1093. It is the very antithesis of the geometric organized facades of those
architects who believed that the architecture should intrude on the
environment on the classic, neo-classic and gothic sense.
______________ 1094. Popularized by Kenzo Tange and was first applied to architecture at the
World Design Conference Tokyo, 1960. this concerns with the problem
of cities such as Tokyo.
______________ 1095. Interest in explaining such thing as the nature of the house in the city
and are concerned with intricate design in small sites.
______________ 1096. Hierarchy of space. Define special sequence. Harmony with existing
structure.
______________ 1097. Architecture of calculation of iron, of glass and all those substitute for
wood, stone and brick which makes possible maximum elasticity and
lightness.
______________ 1098. First referred to the work of Louis Mies Van De Rohe whose structure
design shown a display of the process technology of glass and steel.
______________ 1099. Iron construction and other large scale.
______________ 1100. Sought for economic solution or low value sites as well as alternative
cheap forms of construction in timber, brick and metal.
______________ 1101. Mythical monsters each with the body of a lion and a head of a man,
hawk, ram or a woman.
______________ 1102. Monumental gateway to an Egyptian temple consisting of slanting walls
flanking the entrance portal.

EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE
______________ 1103. An ancient Egyptian rectangular, flat-topped funerary mound with
battered sides, covering a burial chamber below ground.
______________ 1104. A heavy lattice grating of timber, or iron, sliding in vertical grooves in
the jambs of a portal of a defended building.
______________ 1105. A massive funerary structure of stone or brick with a square base and
four sloping triangular sides meeting at the apex, used mainly in ancient
Egypt. The finest true pyramids are the famous three at Gizeh, built by
the 4th dynasty successors of Seneferu.
_______________ 1106. Largest of the famous three, originally 146.4 m high, and 230.6 sq. m.
on plan with an area of 13 acres.
_______________ 1107. Second of the three at Gizeh, 216 m. side and 143 m. high.
_______________ 1108. Smallest of the three and is 109 sq. m. and 66.5 m. high.
_______________ 1109. With a steel usually abutting the east side of the pyramid but
occasionally on the north.
_______________ 1110. An upright slab carrying an inscription.
_______________ 1111. Used for the worship of the dead and deified pharaoh.
_______________ 1112. Leads to the western edge of cultivation.
_______________ 1113. In which embalmment was carried out and interment rites
performed.
_______________ 1114. World’s first large-scale monument in stone changed no less than five
times. Architect was Imhotep.
_______________ 1115. A type of serving for nobility rather than royalty.
_______________ 1116. For ministrations to deified pharaohs.
_______________ 1117. For the popular worship of the ancient and mysterious gods.
_______________ 1118. The grandest of all Egyptian temples.
_______________ 1119. One of the rock-hewn temples commanded by Rameses II. An entrance
forecourt leads to the imposing façade, 36 m. wide and 32 m. high
formed as a pylon, with 4 rock-cut seated statues of Rameses, over 20
m. high.
_______________ 1120. A cult temple.
_______________ 1121. Huge monoliths square on plan and tapering to an electrum-capped
pyramidion at the summit, which was the sacred part, originating in the
sacred symbol of the sun god Heliopolis. They have a height of 9 or 10
times the diameter of the base.
_______________ 1122. Dwellings were of crude brick, one or two-storeys high, with flat or
arched ceilings and a parapet roof pertly occupied by a loggia.
_______________ 1123. A gallery behind an open arcade or colonnade.
_______________ 1124. Walls for protection.
_______________ 1125. Consists of a narrow strip of fertile alluvial soil along both banks of the
Nile, flanked by barren land of rugged cliffs, beyond which lie arid,
desert plateau.
_______________ 1126. Was a trade route to eastern and western foreign trade because of its
overflowing and fertilizing waters, made desert sands into fruitful
fields.
_______________ 1127. Sited their villages and cemeteries on the banks of the Nile.
_______________ 1128. Is abundant in Egypt in quantity and variety.
_______________ 1129. Two seasons of Egypt.
_______________ 1130. Pictorial representation of religious ritual, historic events and daily
pursuits.
_______________ 1131. Kings of Egypt. Sometime they appear as gods and demigods, priest,
as builders, but rarely as fathers of their people.
_______________ 1132. Was monotheistic in theory, but polytheistic in practice.
_______________ 1133. Was used for better buildings.
_______________ 1134. Were sometimes used for roofs.
_______________ 1135. Inward inclination of the outer face of the wall.
_______________ 1136. Pinpoints the location of a particular country.
_______________ 1137. Describes the materials found in the locality, the character and the
composition of the earth and the contour of the ground.
_______________ 1138. The prevailing weather in the country.
_______________ 1139. This is the emotional temperament and spiritual tendencies of the
people in a particular country.
_______________ 1140. The background of the people as a whole.
_______________ 1141. How the people lived and governed.
_______________ 1142. Lasted roughly from 8000 to 3000 BC before the Neolithic Age, man
used caves for shelter.
_______________ 1143. Consists of several large stones set on end with a large covering slab.
_______________ 1144. Dominant megalithic tomb type, which may exist in France and
England, has a corridor lined with large stone slabs leading to a circular
chamber often having a corbelled vault.
_______________ 1145. A mound of earth or stone protecting a tomb chamber or simple grave.
_______________ 1146. Are single great stones set on end and arranged in parallel rows, some
of which run for several miles and consists of thousands of stones
whose purpose is of religious nature.
_______________ 1147. Covered with split reed mats; built on a reed platform to prevent
settlement.
_______________ 1148. Made of stripped logs sealed with clay, with a clay-lined chimney and
roof of bark or shingles.
_______________ 1149. Built of poles with palm-leaf thatch.
_______________ 1150. Made of rush mats over a wooden frame, with animal-skin door.
_______________ 1151. Built of timber and palm leaves, the fenced pen underneath for
livestock.
_______________ 1152. Made of hard packed snow blocks built up spirally.
_______________ 1153. With mud walls and roof of palm leaves.
_______________ 1154. With granite walls and chimney and a thatch roof.
_______________ 1155. With woven bamboo walls and roof of leaves; built on stilts to prevent
tigers from clawing through walls.
_______________ 1156. Made of palm leaves and wood with a shaded veranda.
_______________ 1157. Remodelled by Urnammu and his successors. The complex comprised
the Ziggurat and its court, and three great temples. The ziggurat of Ur
was built about 2100 BC for Su’en the moon god.
_______________ 1158. Built by Sargon and abandoned at his death.
_______________ 1159. A complex of large and small courts, corridors and rooms, covering 23
acres.
_______________ 1160. Executed by Xeres I and finished by Artoxerxes I about 460 BC.
_______________ 1161. A grand audience hall.

GREEK ARCHITECTURE
_______________ 1162. Embraces the civilization of Crete and mainland Greece from earliest
times to about 1100 BC.
_______________ 1163. About 1300 BC, the wealth of the Helladic towns began to decline. In
1200 BC the Trojan War began. The destruction of Helladic citadels
was one of the many events, which brought about the end of Bronze
age civilization and the advent of the iron age in Greece.
_______________ 1164. From 800 to 323 BC. The rule of Pericles marked the climax of
Athenian prosperity and tremendous building activity in reconstruction
expressed the ultimate development of Hellenic art and architecture.
_______________ 1165. From 323 BC to 30 BC. Under Philip, the unification of Greece was
accomplished and firmly established under his son Alexander the
great.
_______________ 1166. Open to the sky leading to a doorway in the rock façade.
_______________ 1167. A subterranean stone-vaulted construction shaped like an old-fashioned
skip beehive.
_______________ 1168. The portion of pedestal between its base and cornice. A term also
applied to the lower portions of walls when decorated separately.
_______________ 1169. Sunk panels, caissons or lacunaria formed in ceilings, vaults or domes.
_______________ 1170. A swelling or curving outwards along the outline of a column shaft.
_______________ 1171. Greek entrance gateways.
_______________ 1172. The principal chamber in a Greek temple containing a statue of the
deity.
_______________ 1173. One to four columns between the antae at the front.
_______________ 1174. One to four columns between antae at the front and rear.
_______________ 1175. Temples have a portico of columns at the front.
_______________ 1176. Temples have portico of columns at the front and rear.
_______________ 1177. Temples have a single line of columns surrounding the naos.
_______________ 1178. Temples have a flank columns attached to the naos wall.
_______________ 1179. Temples have a double line of columns surrounding the naos.
_______________ 1180. Temples are like the last, but inner range of columns is omitted on the
flanks of the naos.
_______________ 1181. Projecting inclined blocks in Doric cornices, derived from the ends of
wooden beams.
_______________ 1182. In classic architecture, a triangular piece of wall above the entablature
enclosed by raking cornices.
_______________ 1183. Blocks resisting on the vertex and lower extremities of the pediment to
 support statuary or ornaments.
_______________ 1184. The triangular surface bounded by the sloping and horizontal cornices
of a pediment.
_______________ 1185. The crowning or upper portion of the entablature, also used as a
crowning projection.
_______________ 1186. The middle division of the classic entablature.
________________ 1187. The beam or lowest division of the entablature, which extends from
column to column.
________________ 1188. The crowning feature of a column or pilaster.
________________ 1189. The portion of a column between base and capital.
________________ 1190. The steps forming the base of a columned Greek temple.
________________ 1191. The upper step forming a platform on which a colonnade is placed.
________________ 1192. Blocks with vertical channels that form a distinguishing feature in the
frieze of the Doric entablature.
________________ 1193. The space between Doric triglyphs sometimes left open in ancient
examples,
________________ 1194. A flat projecting band capping the architrave of a Doric entablature.
________________ 1195. Small cones under the triglyphs and mutules of the Doric order.
________________ 1196. The short band, under the triglyphs, beneath the tenia of the Doric
entablature, and to which the guttae are attached.
________________ 1197. A small flat fillet encircling a column. It is several times repeated
under the ovolo or echinus of the Doric capital.
________________ 1198. The neck of Greek Doric column, between the annulets and the
hypotrachelion.
________________ 1199. The channels or grooves beneath the trachelion at the junction of the
capital and shaft of a column.
________________ 1200. The upper part of an order of architecture, comprising architrave,
frieze and cornice.
________________ 1201. A vertical support, generally consisting of base, circular shaft, and
spreading capital.
________________ 1202. Ornamental blocks fixed vertically at regular intervals along the lower
edge of a roof, to cover the ends of tiles.
________________ 1203. The sharp edge formed by the meeting of two surfaces.
________________ 1204. The vertical channelling on the shaft of a column.
________________ 1205. A slab forming the crowning member of a capital.
________________ 1206. The convex or projecting moulding, resembling the shell of a sea
urchin, which supports the abacus of a Greek Doric capital.
________________ 1207. Carved male figures serving as pillars, also called Telamones.
________________ 1208. The lowest square member of the base of a column.
________________ 1209. A small flat band between mouldings to separate them from each
other.
________________ 1210. Tooth-like blocks in ionic and Corinthian cornices.
________________ 1211. The crowning member of a cornice generally in the form of a cyma.
________________ 1212. An anteroom or small foyer leading into a larger space.
________________ 1213. Any one of the ornamental stalles rising between the leaved of a
Corinthian capital from which the volutes spring.
________________ 1214. A projecting member or bracket to support a weight generally formed
with scrolls or volutes.
________________ 1215. Consoles on either side of a doorway supporting a cornice.
________________ 1216. Carving in low or shallow relief on a background.
________________ 1217. Often carved with a honeysuckle ornament, whose outline
corresponds with the section.
________________ 1218. When enriched is carved with the waterleaf and tongue.
________________ 1219. When enriched is carved with egg and dart, or egg and tongue
ornament.
________________ 1220. A small plain face to separate other mouldings, usually without
 enrichments.
________________ 1221. Same as the fillet, but approaches a circle in section; sometimes
carved with the bead and reel.
________________ 1222. A simple hollow.
________________ 1223. A deep hollow that occurs in bases, generally not enriched.
________________ 1224. A magnified bead moulding which, when enriched is, is carved with
the guilloche or plait ornament or with bundles of leaves and tied
band.
________________ 1225. Occurs frequently in the Doric order and gives a deep shadow.
________________ 1226. Or deep vertical face of the upper portion of the cornice, was
frequently painted with a Greek “feet” ornament.
________________ 1227. Or town square, was the center of social and business life.
________________ 1228. A long colonnaded building were used around public places and as
shelters at religious shrines.
________________ 1229. Served as a senate house for the chief dignitaries of the city and as a
place where distinguished visitors and citizens might be entertained.
________________ 1230. Or council house, as a covered meeting place for the democratically
elected councils.
________________ 1231. A kindred type to the theatre, was a building in which musicians
performed their works for the approval of the public and competed
for prizes.
________________ 1232. A foot race course in cities where games were celebrated.
________________ 1233. For horse and chariot racing.
________________ 1234. Was a wrestling school.
________________ 1235. Included ship sheds and stores.
________________ 1236. Sculptured female figures used as columns or supports.
________________ 1237. Sculptured females bearing baskets on their heads.

ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
________________ 1238. Took great pains to exploit natural resources to the full.
________________ 1239. New order of architecture.
________________ 1240. A continuous pedestal, also the enclosing platform of the arena of an
amphitheatre.
________________ 1241. An open drain for the valleys between hills of Rome.
________________ 1242. Built of large blocks of travertine stone, without mortar.
________________ 1243. The plan has three deities and a front portico with two rows of four
column, widely spaced and approached by wall-in steps.
________________ 1244. One of the most remarkable burial sites. The tombs are laid out
systematically along the paved streets, like a town for the living.
________________ 1245. Is a simplified version of the Doric order.
________________ 1246. Combines the prominent volute of the Ionic order with the acanthus of
the Corinthian on its capital, the shaft maybe fluted or plain.
________________ 1247. Rectangular blocks of stone with or without mortar joints.
________________ 1248. Stones become quite small and the wall faces appeared in a loose
pattern resembling polygonal work.
________________ 1249. Brick facing that superceded the reticulate work.
________________ 1250. An alternation of coarse of brickwork and small squared stone blocks.
________________ 1251. A composite material which consists essentially of binding within
which are embedded particles of fragment of aggregate.
________________ 1252. An arch covering in stone or brick over any building.
________________ 1253. Semi-circular or wagon-headed vault otherwise known as the barrel or
tunnel vault.
________________ 1254. Formed by the intersection of two semi-circular vaults of equal span.
________________ 1255. Or cupolas were used over circular structures and semi domes for
exedrae or semi-circular recesses.
________________ 1256. A mass of masonry built against a wall to resist the pressure of an
 arch or vault.
________________ 1257. A turret or part of a building elevated above the main building.
________________ 1258. Corresponds to the agora in a Greek city, is a central open space used
as a meeting place, market or rendezvous for political demonstrations.
________________ 1259. A simple structure compared with buildings erected for public
relaxation.
________________ 1260. Was the most sacred shrine in the Imperial city.
________________ 1261. Halls of justice and commercial exchanges.
________________ 1262. Palatial public baths of Rome.
________________ 1263. Warm room.
________________ 1264. Containing the unheated swimming bath.
________________ 1265. Dry sweating room with apodyteria (dressing room)
________________ 1266. For roman drama.
________________ 1267.For display of mortal combat.
________________ 1268. Great awning drawn over roman theatres and amphitheatres to protect
spectators against the sun.
________________ 1269. For horse and chariot racing, was derived from the Greek
hippodrome.
________________ 1270. Romans practiced two forms of burial, cremation and interment.
________________ 1271. Subterranean vaults that contain both the columbaria and loculi.
________________ 1272. Shaped tombs.
________________ 1273. Private house.
________________ 1274. Country house.
________________ 1275. Apartment block.
________________ 1276. The portion of the structural elements that supports the superstructure
of the building.
________________ 1277. A strip of reinforced concrete wider than the wall which distributes
load to the soil.
________________ 1278. The lateral reinforcement in a column is termed as.
________________ 1279. Refers to a thick piece of lumber.
________________ 1280. An English term for “pintuang de bandeha”
________________ 1281. One of several small beams to which the ceiling of a room is
attached.
________________ 1282. Any joist which carries a floor.
________________ 1283. A shallow channel of metal or wood set immediately below and along
the eaves of a building to catch and carry off rainwater from the roof.
________________ 1284. A longitudinal member at the apex of a roof which supports the upper
ends of the rafters.
________________ 1285. The projection of a tread beyond a riser as in a stair.
________________ 1286. A board that is nailed vertically to the ends of roof rafters.
________________ 1287. A metal strip rounded on top used to finish the ridge of a roof.
________________ 1288. The horizontal face of a stair step.
________________ 1289. The vertical part of a step that excludes the nosing.
________________ 1290. The surface within a room on which one walks.
________________ 1291. The best and most stable type of foundation bed.
________________ 1292. The person who introduced the Grillage floor in the year 1891.
________________ 1293. Brickwork pattern where all vertical joints are continuously aligned.
________________ 1294. A bay window corbelled out from a wall of an upper storey.
________________ 1295. A type of stringer used for a very rough work.
________________ 1296. Binders for Ric Beams are called ________
________________ 1297. A fascia board between floor and wall is called ________
________________ 1298. The standard side lapping for a corr. G.I sheets is how many
corrugations.
________________ 1299. Mixture of cement and water.
________________ 1300. Mixture of cement, sand and water.
________________ 1301. The symbol for lumber finished on 2 edges and 1 side.
________________ 1302. The vernacular term for puffy.
________________ 1303. The horizontal distance from the first to the last riser of a stair flight.
________________ 1304. Vernacular form for nail setter.
________________ 1305. One board foot is equivalent to how many cubic inches.

DRAWING
(Draw the following in sectional forms)
1306. Yellow bell (decorative conc. blocks)
1307. Egyptian (dec. conc. block)
1308. Vasmin (dec. conc. block)
1309. Corinthian (dec. conc. block)
1310. Persian (dec. conc. block)

(Draw the following in isometric view)

1311. Z-core stretcher block
1312. Z-core stretcher block (ribbed or scored)
1313. “8x8” scored face block
1314. Sash block
1315. Z-core corner L-block

________________ 1316. Defect of wood caused by drying or chipping at the edge

________________ 1317. Defect caused by broken branch.
________________ 1318. A vernacular term for mortar.
________________ 1319. A term applied to undressed or unplanned lumber.

________________ 1320. A rough lumber which is cut tangent to the annual rings running at
full length of the log and containing at least one flat surface.
________________ 1321. The formula in gearing the bd. ft. of a log.
________________ 1322. The vernacular term for eave.
________________ 1323. } Some of the causes of wood decay
________________ 1324. }
________________ 1325. }
________________ 1326. }
________________ 1327. } Are the two methods of wood construction.
________________ 1328. }
________________ 1329. } Are some of the methods of treating a lumber.
________________ 1330. }
________________ 1331. }
________________ 1332. }
________________ 1333. A type of artificial wood seasoning using chemical treatments.
________________ 1334. } Are some of the characteristics of wood.
________________ 1335. }
________________ 1336. }
________________ 1337. }
________________ 1338. }
________________ 1339. Refers to a thick piece of lumber
________________ 1340. A wide piece of lumber from 4-13 cms. thick.
________________ 1341. The English term for “estanyo”.
________________ 1342. The English term for “pintuang de bandeha
________________ 1343. The English term for “tabike
________________ 1344. The English term for “espolon”
________________ 1345. A vernacular term for conductor.
________________ 1346. Considered as the best and most stable type of foundation bed.
________________ 1347. The process of applying coal tar to wood before connecting with
concrete.
________________ 1348. Timber specie which is commonly called as the “iron wood”.
________________ 1349. Defect of lumber caused by improper wood seasoning.
________________ 1350. A lumber defect caused by broken twig.
________________ 1351. Grillage footing was introduced by _________ in the year 1891.
________________ 1352. Refers to the soil or rock beneath the footing.
________________ 1353. Is that portion of the foundation of a structure which directly transmits
the column load to the underlying soil or rock.
________________ 1354. A strip of reinforced concrete wider than the wall which distributes
the load to the soil.
________________ 1355. The horizontal distance from the first to the last riser of a stair flight.
________________ 1356. The vertical face of a stair step.
________________ 1357. A piece of timber in varying cross-section placed vertically to support
a building.
________________ 1358. The simplest and most economical type of column footing.
________________ 1359. A wood or metal strip, rounded on top which is used to finish the
ridge of the roof.
________________ 1360. The vernacular term for baseboard.
________________ 1361. A series of steps connected by landing which permit passage between
two or more levels of floor.
________________ 1362. The finish covering of an exterior wall of a frame building.
________________ 1363. A shallow channel of metal or wood set immediately below and along
the eaves of a building to catch and carry off rainwater from roof.
________________ 1364. Refers to the vertical structure used to support a building made of
stone, concrete, steel, or the combination of the above materials.
________________ 1365. A working tool used commonly in construction to check and verify
the vertical alignment.
________________ 1366. The electrical symbol for heat and moisture resistant wire.
________________ 1367. The symbol for lumber finished on two sides and an edge.
________________ 1368. The vernacular term for putty is ___________
________________ 1369. Manufacturer of PVC pipes.
________________ 1370. Binders for reinforced concrete beam are called ___________
________________ 1371. Instruments used for horizontal and vertical line check.
________________ 1372. Mixture of sand, gravel, cement and water.
________________ 1373. Mixture of cement and water.
________________ 1374. Mixture of cement, sand and water.
________________ 1375. Lumber sawed or cut radially to the annual rings.
________________ 1376. Most common electric wire used for conducting electricity.
________________ 1377. The maximum length of G.I. pipe in feet.
________________ 1378. A fascia board between floor and wall is called _________
________________ 1379. The standard side overlap for corrugated G.I. roofing sheet is how
many corrugations.
________________ 1380. Woods which grow larger by addition of layer on the outer surface
each year.
________________ 1381. A type of wood deterioration which takes place sometimes in the
growth of the tree caused by water saturation.
________________ 1382. One horse power is equal to _________watts.
________________ 1383. Binders for R.C. column are called ___________.
________________ 1384. The front edges of the step that project beyond the riser.
________________ 1385. A type of stringer used for a very rough work.
________________ 1386. A water supply pipe which extends vertically, one full-storey or more,
to service several branches or a group of fixtures.
________________ 1387. Any vertical pipe such as waste pipe or soil.
________________ 1388. A plumbing fittings provided for cleaning the pipe run and located at
every change of direction.
________________ 1389. A bay window corbelled out from a wall of an upper storey.
________________ 1390. A Dutch door consisting of two separate leaves, one above the other;
the leaves may operate independently or together.
________________ 1391. A pattern of brickwork where all vertical joints are continuously
aligned.
________________ 1392. A vernacular term for nail setter.
________________ 1393. A secondary framing member to hold panes within the window.
________________ 1394. A longitudinal member at the apex of the roof which supports the
upper ends of the rafter.
________________ 1395. A board that is nailed vertically to the ends of the roof rafters.
________________ 1396. Consists of all wiring and apparatus needed to bring electricity into
the building.
________________ 1397. Distribute the electricity throughout the structure.
________________ 1398. Usually for underground.
________________ 1399. For exposed installation.
________________ 1400. The power source supplied to a building.
________________ 1401. A device to protect wiring against overheating and possible fire due to
overloading.
________________ 1402. Spring-loaded that bends.
________________ 1403. Monitoring device which turn off the power to the circuit when a
present amount of current is reached in any conductor in any circuit.
________________ 1404. A piece of metal melts when the circuit is heated and intercepts the
current.
________________ 1405. Are switches which automatically disconnects the power when a
circuit cabinet is opened.
________________ 1406. } Three electrical principles of Thomas Edison.
________________ 1407. }
________________ 1408. )
________________ 1409. Used to step down the voltage to a few thousand volts.
________________ 1410. Technical term for the flow of electricity.
________________ 1411. Unit to measure the magnitude of current.
________________ 1412. Amount of power to do the work.
________________ 1413. Unit to measure the consumption of electrical energy.
________________ 1414. A device used to measure what is consumed.
________________ 1415. The earliest form of dwelling developed by man.
________________ 1416. A prehistoric burial mound.
________________ 1417. A prototype in Egypt of monoliths and menhirs.
________________ 1418. Example of a Stonehenge.
________________ 1419. Smallest among the pyramids famous at Gizeh.
________________ 1420. Egyptian gateway.
________________ 1421. Egyptian ornament symbolizing fertility.
________________ 1422. Pillars that stood in pairs at the front of Egyptian temples.
________________ 1423. Tomb houses that were made to take the body at full length.
________________ 1424. Characteristic features of Egyptian external walls.
________________ 1425. Egyptian architecture was designed for.
________________ 1426. The Egyptian cornice that consists of roll and hollow mouldings.
________________ 1427. To cover the torus mould in Egyptian temples.
________________ 1428. Egyptian architecture is characterized by massiveness and
monumentality.
________________ 1429. Egyptian system of construction.
________________ 1430. Erected the colossi of mamnon.
________________ 1431. The architect of great Serapeum at Alexandria.
________________ 1432. Built the funeral temple of Der-el-Bahan.
________________ 1433. Forerunners of the caryatids of the Greeks.
________________ 1434. Characteristic wall ornament of the Egyptian.
________________ 1435. The favourite motifs of design of the Egyptian includes lotus and
papyrus.
________________ 1436. Structure whose sides were made to face the four cardinal points.
________________ 1437. The size of the great pyramid of cheops is equal to.
________________ 1438. Known as the royal architect and superintendent of pyramids.
________________ 1439. In the Egyptian temples, a pillared hall in which the roof rests on
columns.
________________ 1440. Were penetrated in sanctuaries at Egyptian temples.
________________ 1441. Imposing avenues to approach temples.
________________ 1442. An upright stone slab containing the name of the dead found in the
mastaba.
________________ 1443. The inner secret chamber in the mastaba containing the statues of the
deceased members of the family.
________________ 1444. The grandest example of all Egyptian temples built from the 17th
dynasty to the Ptolemaic period.
________________ 1445. A colonnade or portico either concealed or partly enclosed.
________________ 1446. Representation of the great sphinx at Gizeh.
Manissi Temple 1447. Small Egyptian sphinx dedicated to the rights of goddesses Isis.
________________ 1448. The obelisk at the piazza of St. John Lateran, Rome originated.
________________ 1449. Begun the building of the Great Hypostyle hall at Karnak.
_Ptolemy 1_____ 1450. Builder of the famous pharaohs or light House.
Abu Simbel 1451. The most stupendous and impressive of the rock-cut temples. Carved
in the pylon were the four-seated colossal statues of Rameses II.
Rock Hewn Tombs 1452. Tombs built for the Egyptian nobility rather than royalty.
Cult temples ____ 1453. Egyptian temples built for the worship of the gods.
Valley bldg __ 1454. Embalmment and internment rites took place.
Seraglio ___ 1455. The palace proper found in Assyrian palaces.
________________ 1456. Mesopotamian architecture and conglomeration.
Climate ______ 1457. Factor why temples in Mesopotamia were elevated on platforms.
4 corners ___ 1458. The orientation of the ziggurats oriented towards the cardinal points.
Holy Mountain 1459. Also called ziggurats.
Persian Arch’re_ 1460. The use of monsters in doorways is prevalent.
________________ 1461. The system of construction used by the Assyrians.
Fire Altar _____ 1462. Found at the top of ziggurats.
________________ 1463. Assyrian walls are finished at the top with.
________________ 1464. The chief architectural ornament of the Assyrians.
________________ 1465. Rebuilt the ziggurat at Borsippa.
________________ 1466. The famous hanging garden is found.
________________ 1467. Built the hall of the hundred columns.
________________ 1468. The propylaea forming the monumental entrance to the palace
platform, Persepolis was built by.
________________ 1469. In the absence of windows, ventilation is allowed in the interiors of
Assyrian palaces through.
________________ 1470. The harem in Assyrian palaces.
________________ 1471. Persian developed a column because of this.
________________ 1472. Parts of the pyramid complex.
________________ 1473. }
_______________ 1474. }
_______________ 1475. }
_______________ 1476. Parts of Egyptian temples.
_______________ 1477. }
_______________ 1478. }
_______________ 1479. }
_______________ 1480. Apartments in the palace of Sargon.
_______________ 1481. }
_______________ 1483. }
_______________ 1484. Parts of Mastaba.
_______________ 1485. }
_______________ 1486. }
_______________ 1487. Structure in the palace platform, Persepolis.
_______________ 1488. }
_______________ 1489. }
_______________ 1490. }
_______________ 1491. }
_______________ 1492. Earliest known obelisk at Heliopolis.
_______________ 1493. Great Temple, Karnak.
_______________ 1494. Begun first additions to the temple of Ammon, Karnak.
_______________ 1495. Colossi of Mammon
_______________ 1496. Began the Great Hypostyle hall at Karnak.
_______________ 1497. Great Temple Abydos.
_______________ 1498. Ramniasseum, Thebes
Rock Temples; Abu Simbel
_______________ 1499. Pharaoh (lighthouse)
_______________ 1500. Great Serapeum at Alexandria
Nabuchadnezar 1501. Rebuilt the ziggurat, Borsippa
City of Babylon
Xerxes ___ 1502. Propylaea
Platform (Palace platform)
Darius _______ 1503. Hall of the Hundred columns.
_______________ 1504. Columnar and trabeated style.
_______________ 1505. Columnar difference from Mesopotamian architecture.
_______________ 1506. Columnar and trabeated, essentially.
_______________ 1507. Carpentry in marble.
Etruscan _____ 1508. New order of architecture, Tuscan.
Romans _______ 1509. Architectural aims were essentially utilitarian.
Moslem _______ 1510. Friezes and cresting.
Tholos ______ 1511. The Aegean beehive shape type of tomb.
Posticum ______ 1512. Other tern for Epinaos.
Peripteral ___ 1513. A single line of column surrounding the naos wall. A temple arranged
with a single line of columns surrounding the naos.
Temple of Zeus _ 1514. The second largest Greek temple.
2.25D _________ 1515. Intercolumniation of a eustyle.
Temenos _______ 1516. The sacred enclosure found in the highest part of a greek city.
Lacunaria_____ _ 1517. Sunk panels found in the ceilings of Greek temples.
Atlantes________ 1518. The Greek male statues used as columns.
Metope_________ 1519. The space between triglyphs with or without statues.
Doric _______ 1520. The widely used order during the Greek period.
_______________ 1521. Other name of the Tomb of Atreus, a noted example of the Tholos type
of thomb.
Pteroma_________ 1522. The space between the colonnade and the naos wall of the Greek
temple.
Dromos _______ 1523. Open to the sky passage leading to the rock cut or Tholos Aegean
tomb.
_______________ 1524. Together with the naos, epinaos, composed and complete the three
chambers of the Greek temple.
_______________ 1525. A temple, 1 to 4 columns arranged between antae at the front. A temple
arranged with a portico of columns at the front.
_______________ 1526. A temple with 1 to a columns arranged between the antae at the front
and the rear.
_______________ 1527. A temple with portico of columns arranged at the front and at the rear.
_______________ 1528. A temple arranged with flank columns attached to the naos wall.
_______________ 1529. A temple arranged with a double line of columns surrounding the naos.
intercolumnation_ 1530. Space between columns.
4D____________ 1531. The intercolumnation of an ara eostyle.
1.5 D__________ 1532. The intercolumnation of a pyc nostyle.
3D ___________ 1533. The intercolumnation of a diastyle.
_______________ 1534. The seat that rose in tiers and founded on natural rocks in a Greek
theatre.
_______________ 1535. Wings at the ends which projected towards that marked the width of
the orchestra.
_______________ 1536. Built in front of the skene, had its roof serving as a stage or logeion.
_______________ 1537. The scene building which was the center of the Greeks social and
business life.
_______________ 1538. A long colonnaded building used around public spaces and as shelters
and religious shrines.
_______________ 1539. The building that served as a senate house for the chief dignitaries of
the city and as a place where distinguished visitors and citizens might
be entertained.
_______________ 1540. A Greek council house which is a covered meeting place for the
democratically-elected councils.
_______________ 1541. A kindred type of theatre.
_______________ 1542. A foot race course in the cities, where games were celebrated.
_______________ 1543. Similar to the stadium, though longer type of building for horse and
chariot racing.
_______________ 1544. A prototype of hippodrome in Roman building.
_______________ 1545. Greek wrestling.
_______________ 1546. A place for all types of physical exercises. Prototype of the Roman
thermae.
_______________ 1547. The most famous of all the tombs and one of the seven wonders of the
world erected for King Mausolos.
_______________ 1548. One of the best examples of a surviving megaron type of Greek
domestic building.
_______________ 1549. Greek temples stood on a foundation of three steps.
_______________ 1550. One is stylobate, made up the two parts of the crepidoma..
_______________ 1551. Vertical features such as columns were inclined inwards towards the
top to correct the appearance of falling outwards. The continuation of
the fluted shaft in the Greek Doric column.
_______________ 1552. Water-leaf and tongue.
_______________ 1553. Anthemion or honey suckles.
_______________ 1554. Egg and dart or egg and tongue.
_______________ 1555. Bead and reed.
_______________ 1556. Ornament of torus.
_______________ 1557. Painting on a corona ornament.
_______________ 1558. The moulding that is often found in the Doric order.
_______________ 1559. The characteristic of Greek surface ornament.
_______________ 1560. Greek sculptures maybe classified as architectural sculpture, free
standing statuary.
_______________ 1561. Quadrigas.
_______________ 1562. Greek order that does not have a base.
_______________ 1563. Attributed the origin of the Corinthian capital which is distinguished by
its bell shape and acanthus leaf.
_______________ 1564. The proper ion of the Greek Doric column.
_______________ 1565. The proportion of the Greek Ionic column.
_______________ 1566. The proportion of the Greek Corinthian column.
_______________ 1567. Where the shaft of the Greek Doric order terminates.
_______________ 1568. Number of regula and mutules distributed equally in three rows.
_______________ 1569. In the latter Ionic order, a lower torus was added to the base which
originally consisted of an upper torus and scotin.
8 x dia _________ 1570. Entablature height of the Greek Doric.
9 x dia________ _ 1571. Entablature height of the Greek Ionic.
10 x dia________ 1572. Entablature height of the Greek Corinthian.
_______________ 1573. The wall of a colonnade enclosing the temenos.
Ictinus & Callicrates1573. The architects of the Parthenon.
Pheidias _____ 1574. The master sculptor of the Parthenon.
_______________ 1575. The architect of the Erectheion.
_______________ 1576. Architect of the Temple of Nike Apteros, Athens.
Theron _______ 1577. Designed the Temple of Zeus, Agrigentum.
Democrates __ 1578. Designed the Temple of Artemis, Ephesus; also called as the
Hellenistic temple.
Doric ______ 1579. Parthenon uses this kind of order.
Escopas _____ 1580. The master sculptor of the Temple of Artemis, Ephesus.
Caryatid Porch___ 1581. Unusual feature of the Erectheion, Athens which stands on the
Acropolis North of the Parthenon.
_______________ 1582. Made the Temple of Zeus, Agrigentum; the second largest Greek
temple unusual.
_______________ 1583. Made the temple of Zeus, Agrigentum; the second largest Greek
temple unusual.
Diazoma ______ 1584. Separates the tiers of seats in the Greek theatre.
Polycleitos __ 1585. The theatres of Epidiuraos, the most beautiful and best preserved of the
Greek theatres was designed by.
Phytias _____ 1586. Together with Satyros, they designed the Mausoleum, Halicanassos,
the most famous of all tombs and one of the wonders of the ancient
world.
Clepsydra __ 1587. A water clock or instrument for measuring time by the discharge of
water through a small opening.
Tympanum ____ 1588. The triangular surface bounded by the sloping and horizontal cornices
of the pediment.
Fret _________ 1589. In an ornament in classic or renaissance architecture consisting of an
assemblage of straight lines intersecting at right angles and of various
patterns.
Choragic Monument 1590. A type of monument erected to support a tripod as a prize for athletic
exercises or musical competitions in Greek festivals.
Termini ______ 1591. Figures of which the upper parts alone are carved, the rest running into
a parallel piped or diminishing pedestal.
_______________ 1592. A flat circular elements/ ornament which resembles the classical
sources used for wine in sacrificial libations.
Cyrtostyle ______ 1593. A circular protecting portico.
Ancones ______ 1594. Consoles on either side of doorway supporting a cornice of an equal
size and contrasted but connected by a flowing line from the back of
the upper one to the inner convolving face of the lower.
_______________ 1595. Blocks resisting on the vertex and lower extremities of the pediment to
support statuary or ornament.
Atrium_______ 1596. Etruscan houses originated.
Tuscan ______ 1597. Invented by Etruscans.
_______________ 1598. Character of the Roman architecture.
Opus Quadratum_ 1599. Wall facing developed by the Roman architecture of rectangular blocks
of stone work without mortar joints but freqyently secured with
dowels or cramps.
Opus Insertum _ 1600. The wall facing developed by the Romans which is made of small
stones laid in a loose pattern roughly assembling the polygonal work.
Opus Recticulatum 1601. Wall facing developed by the Romans which is made of regular, net
like stone work.
Opus Testacium__ 1602. Wall facing developed by the Romans which is made of brick facing
with stones cut in triangular form.
Hemicycle__ _ 1603. The buttress which is used for retaining earth.
Spur ______ 1604. The buttress which catches the thrusts of the main vaults where they
are concentrated in the pockets above the columned pillars.
Pinnacle _____ 1605. The buttress which were placed on the top of the spur buttress to help
 by their weight to drive the oblique thrusts more steeply down to earth.
Opus rectile ___ 1606. Marble mosaic pattern used on ceilings of vaults and domes.
Opus Spiculatum _ 1607. Marble mosaic used on floor.
Podium ________ 1608. Where Roman rectangular temples stood.
Basilicas ____ 1609. The structure were halls of justice and commercial exchanges by the
Romans.
Thermae________ 1610. The palatial public bath generally raised on a high platform within
enclosing wall.
Hypocaust______ 1611. The furnace that provided the warm baths to the thermae.
Sudatorium______ 1612. The fry sweating room in the thermae.
Apodyteria_____ 1613. The dressing room in the thermae.
Unctuaria ______ 1614. The room containing the oils and ungents in the thermae.
Coameteria______ 1615. The Roman subterranean vault.
Columbarium____ 1616. Niches, similar to pigeon holes, formed in the rock where ashes of the
dead placed in the urn were deposited.
Cowli _________ 1617. Recesses for the corpse sealed with a front slab inscribed with the name
of the dead.
½ circle ______ 1618. The difference between the Roman and Greek theatre the Roman
auditorium encircled.
Gladiator Contest 1619. Uses of amphitheatres.
Rostral Colums 1620. The usual monument built to celebrate victorious naval campaigns of
the general.
Domus__________ 1621. Private house of the Romans.
Villa __________ 1622. The luxurious country house of the Romans which is surrounded by the
terraces and gardens.
Insula _________ 1623. The multi-storey tenement housing for the workers.
Aqueduct _______ 1624. The arched waterway erected to supply most parts of Rome with water.
Pons _________ 1625. Roman bridges.
Locust ________ 1626. A roman fountain designed with a large basin of water.
Salientes _____ 1627. A roman fountain designed with sprouting sects.
Waggon Headed 1628. The vault that is carried throughout its length on the 2 parallel walls of
a rectangular apartment.
Cross Vault ___ 1629. The vault which was formed by the intersection of 2 semicircular vaults
of equal span and used over a square apartment.
Corinthian ___ 1630. The favourite of the Romans among the 5 orders.
Acantus Scroll __ 1631. The special characteristic of the roman ornament.
Forum _______ 1632. For Romans, that which corresponds to the Greek agora.
Forum Romanum_ 1633. The oldest and most important example of roman forum.
Pantheon ___ 1634. The crowning glory of architecture.
Sta Monica Rotunda 1635. Known today as for Pantheon, Rome
Apollodorus ___ 1636. The architects of Trajan’s Basilica, Rome.
Balneum________ 1637. The small private bath very usual in Rome palaces and houses.
Ellipse _____ 1638. The plan of the coliseum, Rome is shaped in the form of.
Sping _______ 1639. The dividing wall running down the middle of the arena in a slightly
oblique direction in the circus.
Carceres_ ___ 1640. The stall for horses and chariots found at one end of the circus
Arch of Titus ___ 1641. The triumphal arch that was built to commemorate the capture of
Jerusalem.
Trajan Column 1642. The memorial column built in the form of a tall Doric and made
entirely of marble.
Palace of Emperors 1643. The roman palace building begun by Augustus and added to by latter
emperors.
Prothyrum ______ 1644. The entrance passage in the Domus.
Impluvium ______ 1645. The water cistern found in the center of the atrium.
Alcoba _______ 1646. The bedroom in the domus.
Tablinum________ 1647. The open saloon found beyond the domus atrium.
Thalamus ____ 1648. The bedroom in the megaron.
Triclinia___ ____ 1649. The dining room in the domus with different aspects for summer and
winter.
Oecus _____ 1650. The reception room of the domus.
Alae ______ 1651. The recess or conversation surrounded by the peristyle in the domus.
Palace of Dioclesian 1652. The palace that forms the greater part of the medieval town of Spalato
this has therefore been called city in a house.
Cenotaph ______ 1653. A memorial monument to persons buried elsewhere.

Nymphaeum___ 1654. A building in classic architecture for plants, flowers and running water,
ornamented with statues and forming a cool and agreeable retreat.
Groin _________ 1655. The curved arise formed by the intersection of vaulting surfaces.
Mosaic ________ 1656. Pictorial representations or ornaments formed of small pieces of stone,
marble or enamel of various colors.
Speclis ____ 1657. The smooth channel that is lined with hard cement and carried on
arches in an aqueduct.
_______________ 1658. Theories in the method of lighting applied in Greek temples.
_______________ 1659. }
_______________ 1660. }
_______________ 1661. Three main areas of Greek temple.
_______________ 1662. }
_______________ 1663. }
_______________ 1664. Three developments of the skene (scene building)
_______________ 1665. }
_______________ 1666. }
_______________ 1667. Ten structures at the acropolis theatre.
_______________ 1668. }
_______________ 1669. }
_______________ 1670. }
_______________ 1671. }
_______________ 1672. }
_______________ 1673. }
_______________ 1674. }
_______________ 1675. }
_______________ 1676. }
_______________ 1677. }
Barrel_________ 1678. Three types of roman vaults.
Cross_________ 1679. }
Dome________ 1680. }
_Sphere ____ 1681. Three types of roman buttress.
Pinnacle_______ 1682. }
Hemicycle_____ 1683. }
_______________ 1684. Three main parts of thermae.
_______________ 1685. }
_______________ 1686. }
Tepidarium___ 1687. Apartments of the thermae main building
Sudatorium_____ 1688. }
Calidarium_____ 1689. }
Frigidarium______ 1690. }
_Lows ____ 1691. Two types of roman fountain.
__Salientes______ 1692. }
_______________ 1693. Five types of roman tomb.
_______________ 1694. }
_______________ 1695. }
_______________ 1696. }
_______________ 1697. }
_______________ 1698. Three types of Roman houses.
_______________ 1699. }
_______________ 1700. }
Ictinus & Calicrates1701. Parthenon, Athens
__Mnesicles ____ 1702. Erectheion, Athens
_______________ 1703. Temple of Nike Apteros, Athens
___Pheron _____ 1704. Temple of Zeus, Agrigentum
__Escopas ___ 1705. Temple of Artemis, Ephesus
_______________ 1706. Theatre, Epidauros
_______________ 1707. Propylaea at Acropolis, Athens
_Safyros & Pythias_1708. Mausoleum, Halicarnassos
__damascus__ 1709. Temple of Venus & Rome, Rome
____Agrippa_____ 1710. Pantheon, Rome
Bespatian & Domitian 1711. Colosseum, Rome
Appolodorus of Damascus 1712. Trajan’s Basilica, Rome
____Churches____ 1713. Chief structure of the early Christian period.
____Basilican _ 1714. Church plan of early Christian churches.
____Saint ____ 1715. It is a rule in the early Christian period that churches should be built
over the burial place of.
__Baldachino __ 1716. Is raised in the early Christian churches, immediately over the burial
place of the saint.
__Stained Glass_ 1717. Principal interior decoration of early Christian churches.
__ Forum______ 1718. Orientation of Roman temple.
___East _____ 1719. Orientation of Greek temple. Orientation of Early Christian churches.
____West ____ 1720. Orientation of medieval churches.
____Stoup ____ 1721. Is use in the center of Early Christian churches atrium; a fountain of
water for ablutions- a custom which is still adopted by the Roman
Catholics.
___narthex ___ 1722. The covered space between the atrium and the church which was
assigned to penitents.
__nave ____ 1723. Central aisle of the church.
__cimborio ____ 1724. Underneath the high altar is the crypt or burial place of the saint to
whom the church was dedicated.
___Choir _____ 1725. Fronting the high altar of an early Christian and later medieval
churches.
___cAncelli_____ 1726. The space for clergy and choir is separated by a low screen wall from
the body of the church.
___Ambo _____ 1727. On either side of the choir pulpits for the reading of the Epistle and the
Gospel.
___Bema _____ 1728. In some churches there is a raised dais as part of the sanctuary which
later develops into the transepts.
___apse ___ 1729. In early Christians churches, the bishops took the central place at the
end of the church.
__Statues ___ 1730. The iconoclastic movement during the Byzantine period forbade the
use of.
Little metropol cathedral, athens__ 1731. The smallest cathedral in the world built
During Byzantine period.
___horizontal __ 1732. Due to its length, the early Christian church gives an impression of.
__vertical ___ 1733. Because of the dome as its central feature, Byzantine churches gave an
impression of.
___simple __ 1734. The dome is classified as when the dome and the pendentives are part
of the same sphere.
superimposed_ 1735. The dome is classified as when the dome is placed on a drum.
_Curved fluttings_ 1736. In the melon shaped type of dome, there is a treatment of the inner
surface which consisted of.
_Dosseret Block__ 1737. A deep abacus in Byzantine column capitals which is used to support
 the wide voussoirs of an arch a thick wall.
___immortal life__1738. Peacock symbolizes in Byzantine interior ornament.
____eternity ____ 1739. Endless knot symbolizes in Byzantine interior ornament.
____Fresco__ 1740. Figures in sculptures were banned by the Byzantine church and where
mosaic was not used.
__Domical___ 1741. The Byzantine style is a fusion of classic columnastyle of the west with
these construction of the west.
_pendentive _ 1742. The triangular curved overhanging the surface by means of which a
circular dome is supported over a square or polygonal compartment.
_Iconostasis__ 1743. A screen which separates channel from the space open to the laity.
Anthemius & Isodorus 1744. Architects of the church of Sta. Sophia, Constantinople which
was built for the Justinians.
St. Sofia of Cons._ 1745. As the Parthenon is the masterpiece of greek architecture and the
pantheon of Rome, so it remains for all ages the masterpiece of
Byzantine architecture is this.
__Loggia________ 1746. A gallery behind an open colonnade or arcade.
__Lantern_______ 1747. A tower or the cimborio raised above a roof pierced to admit light.
_Aquinch Arch___ 1748. Arches placed diagonally at the internal angles of towers to bring
them from the square to support an octagonal dome or spire.
_Chapter house____ 1749. The place of assembly for abbot, prior and members of a monastery
for the transaction of business.
__Refectory____ 1750. The dining hall on a monastery, convent or college.

__Transept____ 1751. That part of a cruciform church projecting at right angles to the main
building.
__Greek Cross___ 1752. Church plan of the Byzantine church.
__Latin Cross___ 1753. Church plan of Romanesque churches.
__cloisters____ 1754. The covered passage round an open space or Garth connecting the
church to the chapter house, refectory and other parts of the
monastery.
_Sober & dignified__1755. Character of Romanesque architecture.
____Domes____ 1756. Prominent feature of Romanesque churches which maybe square,
octagonal or circular.
___ ____ 1757. Connected at the top walls of the Romanesque churches are relieved
by shallow buttresses or pilaster strips.
__Corbel arches____ 1758. In Romanesque architecture, door and window opening have jambs
or side formed in a series of receding moulded planes.
_Wheel Window __ 1760. Over the principal west doors of a Romanesque church it is located.
_Monastic Church__ 1761. With this at the center, the typical monastery plan during the
Romanesque period consisted of a group of buildings designed for
all occupations both spiritual and temporal, of the monks and
resemble a village.
_Camacine Masters_ 1762. A privileged guild of architects and sculptors originating in Como,
which carried out church buildings designed and characteristics
decoration during the 11th century.
Ornamental Arcades__ 1763. The prominent picture of the facades in Romanesque in central
Italy.
Central Projecting Porch 1764. Together with wheel window, it is the characteristic feature of
Romanesque in North Italy.
___Muslim art ___ 1765. Romanesque in South Italy is influenced because of the application
of stripes of colored marbles and the use of stilted pointed arches.
_Leaning Tower___ 1766. The campanile, completing the world of famous Pisa group of
cathedral and baptistery.
__Flanky Towers ___ 1767. Feature used to distinguish the west façade of the cathedral in
northern France, particularly in Normandy.
__St. Madelain___ 1768. The church with a remarkable narthex, believed to have the earliest
 pointed cross vault in France built during the Romanesque period.
__________________ 1769. Considered as the prototype of later gothic facades in the French
Romanesque church.
_east & west apse___ 1770. Aside fro octagonal turrets and polygonal cupolas, German
Romanesque church plans are peculiar in having both of this.
__________________ 1771. The best example of a German Romanesque church with apses at
both east and west ends.
_____quadripartite_ 1772. Two types of Romanesque vaulting.
_________ sixpartite_ 1773. }
__mills, workshops 1774. Parts of the Monastic group.
__monastic church __ 1775. }
__cloister court ___ 1775. }
__inner court _____ 1776. }
__common court____ 1777. }
__________simple___ 1779. Three types of Byzantine dome.
___compound_______ 1780. }
___melon-shaped_____1781. }
_Isodorus of Moletus_ 1782. Sta. Sophia, Constantinople
___Dicti Salvi____ 1783. Baptistery, Pisa cathedral
___Charlenagne_____ 1784. Aux-La-Chapelle Cathedral
__Stilted arch______ 1785. An arch having its springing line higher than the line the mouldings
are.
___Triforium______ 1786. The space between the sloping roof over the aisle and the aisle
vaulting.
__Clerestorey_______ 1787. The upper story of the nave walls rising above the aisle roof which
is pierced with windows.
_____Corbel_______ 1788. A block of stone projecting from a wall, often elaborately carved or
moulded, supporting any incumbent weight.

___Helm Roof___ 1789. A type of roof in which four faces rest diagonally between the
gables and converge at the top.
___Style Ogivale____ 1790. Gothic in France.
Millard de Hannecourt 1791. Forerunner of the gothic in France
__Carlo Maderna__ 1792. Forerunner of the gothic in Italy.
__Peter Parker_______1793. Forerunner of the gothic in Germany.
__________________ 1794. One of the two forerunners of the Gothic in England.
__________________ 1795. The term applied to the Episcopal church of the diocese and also
the important structure of the gothic period.
__________________ 1796. The period known as the early English period of the gothic style in
England and which is less massive in character and simple in
ornament.
__________________ 1797. It was during this period if the English gothic when the triforium
disappeared due to the increase of height of the clear storey and
aisle window.
__________________ 1798. The intermediate ribs between the main ribs of a gothic vault.
__________________ 1799. During the Tudor period of the English gothic architectural activity
was geared towards.
__________________ 1790. A projecting block of spur of stone carved with foliage to decorate
the raking line formed by angles of spines and canopies.
__________________ 1801. The upper portion of a pinnacle, bench-end or other architectural
feature.
____Tower Bolt_____1802. A small turret-like termination on the top of buttresses parapets or
elsewhere, often ornamented with bunches of foliage called
crockets.
__________________ 1803. A moulding made up of a convex and concave curve and which
could also be applied to an arch.
__________________ 1804. The ornamental pattern work in stone filling the upper part of a
gothic window.
__________________ 1805. A term applied to any rib other than a ridge rib which does not start
from the springing of the vaulting compartment.
_Stellar vault_______ 1806. The pattern provided by the lierne
__________________ 1807. Keystone which were used to cover the mitres produced by the
meeting of moulded ribs.
__connoidal vault____ 1808. The stellar vaulting led to fann vaulting is also known as.
__________________ 1809. It is very usual in English gothic cathedrals to include a chapel in
honor of the Virgin Mary.
__________________ 1810. It is a chapel where mass is said for the souls of pluos founders and
their families.
__________________ 1811. The earliest and simplest open timber roof used during the gothic in
England.
__________________ 1812. It is a type of open timber roof in gothic England which consists of
a series of trusses repeated at intervals to support the intermediate
purlins and rafters whose objects is to transmit thrust of the roof as
low down as possible in the supporting wall.
__________________ 1813. It is a Norman convex moulding usually ¾ of a circle applied to an
angle, a form of roll moulding.
__________________ 1814. A roll moulding in which two faces meet in a blunt arris.
__________________ 1815. A late gothic moulding consisting of two ogee mouldings with
convex faces adjoining.
__________________ 1816. A moulding of the decorated period consisting of a slight convexity
followed by hollows.
__________________ 1817. A moulding formed of two ogee curves meeting in a sharp arris.
__________________ 1818. A moulding at the end of which projects over the other part.
__________________ 1819. A wide flat hollow moulding so called because it encased bunches
of foliage.
__________________ 1820. The projecting moulding over the heads of doorways, windows and
archways to throw off rain is a drip store.
__________________ 1821. The characteristic of English gothic cathedral.
__________________ 1822. The largest medieval cathedral in Europe.