Architecture quiz questions and answers

Q1) The windows of the bahay na bato is the made up of _________.
Answer: capiz
Q2) This philosophy “When change needs, asks a stranger” belongs to _________.
Answer: Peter Behrens
Q3) The type of stones used in the Stonehenge.
Answer: Blue stones
Q4) With regards to relationships of structure to architecture, which of the following describes adequate
structure:
Answer: exaggerated elements
Q5) Finest example of French-Gothic architecture.
Answer: Chartres Cathedral
Q6) Art Nouveau in Austria is known as ________.
Answer: Sezessione
Q7) Contributions where the advocacy of the idea of planning rooms by volume.
Answer: Oscar Niemeyer
Q8) Architect of Meralco Center Ortigas;
Answer: J. M. Zaragosa Araneta
Q9) The architect of Chrysler building in N.Y.

Answer: Van Alen
Q10) The 1995 Pritzker Laureate.
Answer: Tadao Ando
Q11) This is the tallest brick building in the world standing at 1,046 ft. (319 M). It was built in New York
City between September 19, 1928 to May 20, 1930 and became the tallest building at that time. After 11
months it was surpassed by another skyscraper in 1931. Who is the architect of this building?
Answer: William Van Alen
Q12) "A 1 Kilometer radius lake surrounded by villages with native houses and structures". What type of
spatial organization was described?
Answer: datum
Q13) The part of a the Elizabethan mansion which is located in a Central Position and connecting the
various parts of the mansion is the ________.
Answer: Great Hall
Q14) Romanesque Revival in the USA was introduced by ________.
Answer: Henry H. Richardson
Q15) In the middle kingdom, in Egyptian architecture, who consolidate the administrative system, made
a survey of the country, set boundaries to the provinces, and other helpful works.
Answer: Amenemhat I
Q16) A house is like a “flower pot"
Answer: Richard Josef Neutra

Q17) Traditional maranaw house for the ordinary members of the community is the ________.
Answer: Walay
Q18) Whose famous dictum or axiom is "Design as if you were a child"?
Answer: Michael Graves
Q19) Architect of Metropolitan Center, Manila.
Answer: Juan Arellano
Q20) In 1934, Walter Gropius was able to leave Nazi Germany, lived and worked in Britain then finally
settled in the United States. He was influential in bringing what style of Architecture in the U.S.?
Answer: International modernism
Q21) Scottish architect and designer who was prominent in the arts and crafts movement in Great
Britain.
Answer: Charles Mackintosh
Q22) In converting 2D objects to 3D objects, what object will be created if you rotate a vertical line from
any X,Y axis coordinate?
Answer: Tube
Q23) To conceive, contrive or devise the form and structure of a building or other construction.
Answer: design
Q24) Under additive composition, what type of form composition is "The 1 Mile High Illinois by FLW?
Answer: linear form

Q25) The style known as the 'True Style' (1750-1830) later came to be called __________ ? (Excavations
at the newly discovered cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were part of the reason for the return to
classical styles in architecture).
Answer: Neoclassicism
Q1) The cross-in square style would most often be found in a ___________ Church?
Answer: Byzantine
Q2) The Greek Council house which is covered meeting place for the democratically elected council.
Answer: Bouleuterion
Q3) What is one of possibly several points in a 2D image where lines that are parallel to the 3D source
converge?
Answer: Vanishing Point
Q4) Architectural character of Romanesque style is ________.
Answer: sober & dignified
Q5) The cistern in the bahay na bato is known as _________.
Answer: aljibe
Q6) Greek Temples stood on a foundation of three steps is called ________.
Answer: Crepidomad
Q7) King Zoser’s architect who was revered and deified in the 26th dynasty.
Answer: Imhotep
Q8) It began in Paris, it is a style of architecture, primarily French in origin which represesnts the final
phase of the baroque around the mid of 18th Century using rockworks, pebbles, coquilles and fantastic
scrolls;
Answer: Rococo Arch.
Q9) Which architect designed the Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois? (The Farnsworth House is the
ultimate example of the minimalist style. It is very simply comprised of glass windows, a roof, and a
floor).
Answer: Mies van der Rohe
Q10) Founded the great temple at Karnak.
Answer: Amenemhat I
Q11) The Japanese pyramidal roof is called _________.
Answer: hogyo
Q12) It refers to the quality of surface treatment, associated with materials.
Answer: Texture
Q13) The FEU in Manila is an example of what architectural style?
Answer: Art Deco
Q14) Greatest patron of Romanesque Architecture is __________.
Answer: Christian Church

Q15) This jewel of Muslim art became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. Who was the principal
architect of this building?
Answer: Ustad Ahmad Lahauri
Q16) The Robie House was designed by which architect? (On the campus of the University of Chicago, in
Illinois, the Robie House stands on a beautiful corner lot. The building resembles a battleship. It is
considered by many as the greatest prairie-style house.
Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright
Q17) Which of the following were built during the Roman Republic?
1. The Pantheon
2. The Maison Carree
3. The Baths of Caracalla
4. The Pont du Gard
Answer: 2 and 4
Q18) The most famous structure of Byzantine architecture and notable of its large dome.
Answer: Hagia Sophia
Q19) Andrea Palladio also proposed several methods for determining the height of a room so that it
would be in proper proportion to the room's width and length. Which are NOT the correct proportion
for the ceiling height?
Answer: the height of circular rooms with vaulted ceilings would be one-half greater than their diameter
Q20) A system of elements ranked, classified, and organized one above another, according to
importance or significance?
Answer: alignment
Q21) What historic style of architecture contributed architectural mouldings such as cyma recta, cyma
reversa, ovolo, etc?
Answer: Greek
Q22) Which is not true of the Lion Gate?
Answer: It is located at Pylos
Q23) Architect of (NBI) Nat’l. Bureau of Investigation, Taft Ave.
Answer: Otillo Arellano
Q24) A line extended in a direction other than its intrinsic direction.
Answer: plane
Q25) The design of the early Christian Churches were based on the Roman __________ ?
Answer: Basilica
Q1) Strictly, a pedestal at the corners or peak of a roof to support an ornament, more usually, the
ornament itself.
Answer: Acroterion
Q2) Author of the Master Plan for Ground Zero and the World Trade Center Site.
Answer: Daniel Libeskind
Q3) This jewel of Muslim art became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. Who was the principal
architect of this building?
Answer: Ustad Ahmad Lahauri
Q4) The Greek wrestling school is known as _______.
Answer: Palaestra
Q5) Where is the Rajah Sulayman Grand Mosque located?
Answer: Baclaran
Q6) Who erected the earliest known obelisk at Heliopolis.
Answer: Senusret I
Q7) “A city is subjected to growth, delay and rebuilt” belongs to _________.
Answer: Kenzo Tange
Q8) Traditional maranaw house for the ordinary members of the community is the ________.
Answer: Walay
Q9) Architect of Jai Alai, Manila.
Answer: Juan Nakpil
Q10) Contributions where the advocacy of the idea of planning rooms by volume.

Q11) “form follows function” is the dictum generally accredited to _________.
Answer: Louis Sullivan
Q12) Who wrote “Treatise de Architectura”
Answer: Vitruvius
Q13) Largest medieval cathedral in Europe, with exception of s. Peter's Rome. The largest church in the
world is _________.
Answer: Seville Cathedral
Q14) The arranging of parts or elements into proper proportion or relation so as to form unified whole.
Answer: Composition
Q15) A projecting block or spur of stone carved with foliage to decorate the raking lines formed by
angles of spires and canopies is the _______.
Answer: Crocket
Q16) Architectural character of Romanesque style is ________.
Answer: sober & dignified
Q17) Architecture is generally conceived, designed and realized.
Answer: design process
Q18) "There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." -a famous qoute by
___________.
Answer: Buckminster Fuller

Q19) Ancient Greece's largest "mall".
Answer: Stoa of Attalus
Q20) Architect of "Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp”
Answer: Le Corbusier
Q21) It bears a certain relation to the same attribute to the life of an individual.
Answer: personal character
Q22) That which the eye identifies, the mind perceives and interprets.
Answer: form
Q23) Which sensual type affects placement of rooms which could limit unpleasant odors?
Answer: olfactory
Q25) What is the spherical roof placed like an inverted cup over a circular, square, or multiangular
apartment?
Answer: cupola
Q1) Scottish architect and designer who was prominent in the arts and crafts movement in Great Britain.
Answer: Charles Mackintosh

Q2) Architect and painter, one of the personalities of Italian renaissance architecture. Already in his
early works he changed conventional architecture space by inserting illusionist features more typical of
painting and storage settings.
Answer: Bramante Donato
Q3) Roman rectangular temples stood on a _______.
Answer: podium
Q4) 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.
Answer: proportion
Q5) The merging of juxtaposed dots or strokes of pure colors when seen from a distance to produce a
hue often more luminous than that available from premixed pigment.
Answer: optical color mixing
Q6) His solutions to building problem were always direct, transmitting to the ground by the shortest
path the stresses developed within the structures.
Answer: Nervi, Pier Luigi
Q7) Another term for crenel or intervals between merlon of a battlement.
Answer: Embrasures
Q8) "Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it." This statement is rather ironic,
considering the source...
Answer: R. Buckminster Fuller

Q9) Concrete vaulting permitted what culture to first build large covered spaces with no internal
support?
Answer: Roman
Q10) The pattern produced by the lierne is called ________.
Answer: Stellar vault
Q11) “Architecture seizes upon space encompasses space and is space itself” belongs to _________.
Answer: Erich Mendelsohn
Q12) He was a leading Japanese architect who predicted a "Transition from the Age of the Machine to
the Age of Life" in 1958. Who was this architect?
Answer: Kisho Kurokawa
Q13) The principle of organization can be altered through a series of discrete manipulations and
permutation without loss of identity or concept?
Answer: Transformation
Q14) 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.
Answer: Francisco Manosa
Q15) What type of form composition is the St. Mark's Tower in New York by Frank Lloyd Wright?
Answer: rotated grid form
Q16) This architectural style was once called "opus modernum".
Answer: Gothic
Q17) The Machu Picchu is an architectural achievement of what civilization?
Answer: Inca
Q18) Zaha Hadid is one of the exponent of this architectural style. What is this style?
Answer: Decontructivism
Q19) The cross-in square style would most often be found in a ___________ Church?
Answer: Byzantine
Q20) The palace proper found in Assyrian palaces is called _______.
Answer: Seraglio
Q21) The youngest of the pioneer modernists, was instrumental in shifting the bias of the Bauhaus from
the Arts and Crafts” to Art and technology.
Answer: Marcel Breuer
Q22) Which building that Le Corbusier exemplified the principle of Modulor?
Answer: Unité d'Habitation
Q23) The emperor who built the Great Wall of China is __________.
Answer: Shi Huang Ti
Q24) Defines the limit of a boundaries or volume in a creative composition.
Answer: plane
Q25) The cooking area in the bahay kubo is the ________.
Answer: Gilir
Q1) This jewel of Muslim art became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. It was built by the Mughal
emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife. What is this historical and renowned building?
Answer: Taj Mahal
Q2) Can be regular or irregular, primary characteristic that identifies.
Answer: color
Q3) Architect of Iglesia ni Cristo Church.
Answer: Carlos Santos Viola
Answer: Art Deco
Q5) Most prominent Art Nouveau architect whose works includes the Guell Palace in Spain is _______.
Answer: Antonio Gaudi
Q6) “Everything started with the Nipa Hut” belongs to __________.
Q7) A unifying movement characterized by patterned repetition or alteration or formal elements or

motifs in the same or modified form?
Answer: Rhythm
Q8) What is referred to as the origin of architecture?
Answer: practical usefulness of space
Q9) "A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."
What architect of the tall said this?
Answer: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Q10) A concave molding approximately quarter round.
Answer: Cavetto
Q11) According to this Architect his philosophy is "Ornament equals Crime"
Answer: Adolf Loos
Q12) This famous dictum, “I am neither a capitalist nor a socialist, I am not a religious or an atheist”
belongs to.
Answer: Lucio Costa
Q13) Leandro Locsin's Chapel of the Holy Sacrifice was famously known as _______.
Answer: Delaney's Flying saucer
Q14) Which of the following is not a definition of architectural concept?
Answer: Evaluative information about an action or process prompting a return to a preceding phase for
alteration or correction.
Q15) The palace proper found in Assyrian palaces is called _______.
Answer: Seraglio
Q16) "Form ever follows function." It's a famous quote, but who said it?
Answer: Louis Sullivan
Q17) Finest and remaining example Of Byzantine arch. is ________.
Answer: s. Sophia, Constantinople
Q18) Roman rectangular temples stood on a _______.
Answer: podium
Q19) A state or position of being placed close together or side by side, as to permit comparison or
contrast.
Answer: juxtaposition
Q20) Which is the correct spelling of the contemporary name of this amphitheater?
Answer: Colosseum
Answer: design
Q22) The Pantheon, Rome is known today as the ________.
Answer: Sta. Maria, Rotunda
Q23) Built the temple at Abu- Simbel.
Answer: Seti I
Q24) Architect of Mall of Asia.

Answer: Robert Ong
Answer: Amenemhat I
Q1) Egyptian Pylon temples contained what type of halls?
Answer: Hypostyle Hall
Q2) Kind of rhythm where equally spaced windows are introduced on the broken wall, then regular
repetition is presented.
Answer: unaccented rhythm
Q3) A memorial monument to persons buried elsewhere is called _______.
Answer: Cenotaphs
Q4) What is the architectural style of Architect Leandro Locsin?
Answer: Monumentalism
Q6) Whose famous dictum/ philosophy is this “A house is a machine for living”
Q7) It is an anthropometric scale of proportions devised by Le Corbusier. It was developed as a visual
bridge between two incompatible scales, the Imperial system and the Metric system. It is based on the
height of an English man with his arm raised.
Answer: Modulor
Q8) Entertainments not provided in the Colosseum were:
Answer: Chariot races
Q9) A style of decoration in architecture and applied art developed principally in Belgium and France
toward the end of 19th century characterized by organic and dynamic forms, without traces of
historical styles.
Answer: Art Nouveau
ornament itself.
Answer: Acroterion
Q11) His first designs were drawings of fantastic architectural visions in steel and glass as well as
costume and poster design.
Answer: Erich Mendelsohn
Q12) 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.
Q13) What was the architectural style of San Sebastian Church?
Answer: Neo-Gothic
Q14) Architect of “Our Lady” at EDSA shrine of the 1986 Filipino Revolution.
Answer: Francisco Mañosa
Q15) Which architect was part of the team that designed the Centre Pompidou? (Centre Pompidou is
simply ingenious. The building's facade is comprised of all the air ducts, stairwells, and framework,
normally inside a building. Essentially He teamed with Renzo Piano made this building 'inside out'.
Centre Pompidou is in Paris).
Answer: Richard Rogers
Q16) One of world’s supreme masterpieces of Romanesque arch which was the 1st building in Europe to
have ribbed vaults
Answer: Durham Cathedral
Q17) Architect of the “Rockwell Center”
Answer: Felino Palafox
Q18) That which corresponds to the Greek Agora is the Roman.
Answer: Forum
Q19) Art Nouveau in France is known as _______.
Answer: Le Modern Style
Q20) A concave molding approximately quarter round.
Answer: Cavetto
Q21) The city of Teotihucan was:
1. A major religious center
2. Built by the Mayans
3. Laid out to align with magnetic north
4. The location of the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon
Answer: 1, 3, and 4
Q22) The space between triglyphs with or without sculptures is known a ________.
Answer: Metope
Q23) Monoliths or menhirs are prototypes of Egyptian _____.
Answer: Pyramid
Q24) "Less is a bore." Who said this in response to Mies van der Rohe's famous dictum, "less is more"?
Answer: Robert Venturi
Q25) Villa Capra (the rotunda) at Vicenza, Italy by Andrea Palladio is what type of spatial organization?
Answer: centralized organization
Q1) What do you call this concept in Architecture which is the result of intellectual, Social, Religious &
Political conditions developed at a given place by a given people?
Answer: Architectural Character

Q2) A prehistoric burial mound is called ________.
Answer: Tumulus
Q3) Architecture is generally conceived, designed and realized.
Q4) Built the famous Colossi of Memnon.
Answer: Amenophis III
Q5) Architect of the UNESCO building in Paris which the striking feature of this complex is the enormous
“Y” shaped office and conference room block.
Q6) Completing the world-famous Pisa group of cathedral and baptistery is the campanile known as
_______.
Answer: Leaning Tower
Q7) Female statues with baskets serving as columns.
Answer: Canephora
Q8) In the bahay kubo, the private sleeping room is called ________.
Answer: Silid
Q9) Which architect designed the Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois? (The Farnsworth House is the
ultimate example of the minimalist style. It is very simply comprised of glass windows, a roof, and a
floor).
Answer: Mies van der Rohe
Q10) The Greek Council house which is covered meeting place for the democratically elected council.
Answer: Bouleuterion
Q11) Which is the most important basic need of human settlement?
Answer: water
Q12) What was Minoru Yamasaki most noted project which he described in his words during the
opening ceremony as "a living symbol of a man's dedication to world peace"?
Answer: World Trade Center Twin Tower
Q13) The principle of organization can be altered through a series of discrete manipulations and
permutation without loss of identity or concept?
Answer: Transformation
Q14) Themonastery designed with courts or shrines with a central square space surrounded by priest’s
chambers.
Answer: vihara
Answer: Embrasures
Q16) Development of dome to cover polygonal & square plans for churches, tombs and baptisteries is
the character of architecture of _________.
Answer: Romanesque
Q17) A projecting block or spur of stone carved with foliage to decorate the raking lines formed by
angles of spires and canopies is the _______.
Answer: Crocket
Q18) The style known as the 'True Style' (1750-1830) later came to be called __________ ? (Excavations
at the newly discovered cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were part of the reason for the return to
classical styles in architecture).
Answer: Neoclassicism
Q19) The great pyramid at gizeh was built in the 4th dynasty by ________.
Answer: Cheops
Q20) "The artist is only a vehicle for what always been." One of philosophies of Louis Khan. He tends to
what style of architecture?
Answer: Monumental & Monolithic
Q21) The part of a the Elizabethan mansion which is located in a Central Position and connecting the
various parts of the mansion is the ________.
Answer: Great Hall
Q22) Architect who contributed the use of reinforcement concrete flames and large areas of glazing
(glass) where we applied today.
Answer: Adolf Loos
Q23) The small private bath, very usual in Roman palaces and houses were called _________.
Answer: Balneum

Q25) Form that is generated using two or more geometric systems.
Answer: Canonic design
_______.
Q2) Egyptian Pylon temples contained what type of halls?
Answer: Hypostyle Hall
Q3) Tomb-houses that were made to take the body at full-length are called _______.
Answer: Mastaba
Q4) What art principle shows the relationships of architectural elements and is usually derived from the
human body or its spare parts as the basis of measurement system?
Answer: scale
Q5) A line established by two points in space, about which forms and space can be arranged in a
symmetrical or balanced manner?
Answer: Axis
Q6) "cubicula" or bedroom is from what architecture.
Answer: Roman
Q7) “Architecture is decorated construction not constructed decoration” is an architect philosophy
named?
Answer: Mackintosh Charles
Q8) Which of the following was designed by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw?
Answer: Waterloo International Railway Station, London
Q9) Eiffel tower I in Paris stands _______.
Answer: 984 ft.
Q10) Architect and painter, one of the personalities of Italian renaissance architecture. Already in his
early works he changed conventional architecture space by inserting illusionist features more typical of
painting and storage settings.
Answer: Bramante Donato
Q11) Female statues with baskets serving as columns.
Answer: Canephora
Q12) It began in Paris, it is a style of architecture, primarily French in origin which represesnts the final
phase of the baroque around the mid of 18th Century using rockworks, pebbles, coquilles and fantastic
scrolls;
Answer: Rococo Arch.
Q13) 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.
Answer: Alvar Aalto

Q14) Who said “The will of the epoch translated into space’
Answer: Adolf Hitler
Q15) "First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then
there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and
ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture." Who was the wood-loving
architect?
Answer: Gustav Stickley
Q16) Fort Santiago is also known as "Shrine of Freedom" designed by Engr. Diego Jordan and
_________.
Answer: Antonio Sedeňo
Q17) What is referred to as a Chinese geomancy originally called "under the canopy of heaven"?
Answer: Feng Shui
Answer: Colosseum
Q19) The emperor who built the Great Wall of China is __________.
Answer: Shi Huang Ti
Q20) Began the additions to the temple of Amnon, Karnak.
Answer: Thothmes I
Q21) The St. Peter in Rome, " first version" by Donato Bramante is what type of spatial organization?

Q22) The shaft of the greek order terminates in the ________.
Answer: hypotrachelion
Q23) A detached structure from the bahay kubo where palay is kept is the _________.
Answer: kamalig
Q24) "Man's first sense must have been beauty, a sense of total harmony." One of philosophies of Louis
Khan.
What is the most important building he designed?
Answer: Jatiyo Sangshad Babad in Bangaldesh
Q25) Who said that “The magnificent display of volume put together in the light”.
Q1) The mezzanine of the Bahay na Bato.
Answer: Entresuelo
Q2) Largest medieval cathedral in Europe, with exception of s. Peter's Rome. The largest church in the
world is _________.
Answer: Seville Cathedral
Q3) The smallest among the famous pyramids at Gizeh is _______.
Answer: Pyramid of Myrkerinos

Q4) Architect, sculptor and engineer who was the main initiator of stylistic changes in Renaissance
architecture. The engineering feat represented by the cupola of Florence cathedral, staggered by his
contemporaries.
Answer: Brunelleschi, Fillippo
Q5) "Le Corbusier" means:
Answer: "the crow-like one"
Q6) Monoliths or menhirs are prototypes of Egyptian _____.
Answer: Pyramid
Q7) Zaha Hadid is one of the exponent of this architectural style. What is this style?
Answer: Decontructivism
Q9) What historic style of architecture contributed architectural mouldings such as cyma recta, cyma
reversa, ovolo, etc?
Answer: Greek
Q10) In Mesopotamian arch., religion called for temples made of sun dried bricks is ________.
Answer: ziggurats
Q11) Which architect designed the east wing of the National Gallery of Art? (The architect had to fit the
east wing of the gallery into a small triangular space, so he decided to make the building in the shape of
a triangle to better fit the lot. The building turned out to be marvelous. The gallery is located on Fourth
Street in Washington, D.C.)
Answer: I.M. Pei
Q12) The exits in a Roman amphitheater such as the Colosseum were called:
Answer: Vomitoria
Q13) A period in Mesopotamian art from the time of the Kassite invasion in c.1800 BC culminating with
the onset of Persian rule in 539 BC.
Answer: Babylonian Period
Answer: Colosseum
Q15) What art principle shows the relationships of architectural elements and is usually derived from
the human body or its spare parts as the basis of measurement system?
Answer: scale
Q16) The ancestral Puebloan Cultural groups of the southwest:
1.Were prehistoric peoples
2.Were ancestors of many Native American tribes of the southwest
3.Originally dwelled in pit houses
4.Believed in origin myths that said their ancestors came from the south
Answer: 1, 2, and 3
Q17) The upright stone slab containing the name of the dead found in the mastaba is _______.
Answer: stele
Q18) The great pyramid at gizeh was built in the 4th dynasty by ________.
Answer: Cheops
months it was surpassed by another skyscraper in 1931. What is the architectural style of this building?
Answer: Art Deco
Q20) Whose famous dictum is this, “Unity disguised as chaos, complexity & contradiction are often what
make works of art both exciting and profound.”
Answer: Kenzo Tange
Q21) Oldest French gothic cathedrals which was begun by bishop maurice de sully, plan of whichc is on a
bent axial line.
Answer: Notre Dame Cathedral
Q22) 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.
Answer: Paul Rudolph
Q23) One of the pioneers of the modern movement in American architecture. Work auditorium building,
U.S.
Answer: Louis Henry Sullivan

Q24) What do you call the doctrine that has two extremes: One is that a building cannot be beautiful
unless it answers its function in the best simple and direct way -and that, if a building answers its
function in the most simple and direct way, it will automatically be beautiful.
Answer: Functionalism
Q25) 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 architecture, sculpture and painting to create new forms
which above all created a dramatic impact and involved the spectator.
Answer: Bernini Giovanni Lorenzo
Q1) Triangular piece of wall above the entablature.
Answer: Pediment
Q2) A memorial monument to persons buried elsewhere is called _______.
Answer: Cenotaphs
Q3) What do you call the doctrine that has two extremes: One is that a building cannot be beautiful
unless it answers its function in the best simple and direct way -and that, if a building answers its
function in the most simple and direct way, it will automatically be beautiful.
Answer: Functionalism
Q4) Which architect designed the Getty Center? (The Getty Center is made up of six buildings.
Sometimes it is called a "modern acropolis" because it is a huge center on the top of a hill in Los
Angeles).
Answer: Richard Meier
Q5) "Architecture is the art of how to waste space." This is a quote from what no-nonsense modernist?
Answer: Philip Johnson

Q6) 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.
Q8) Which architect designed the east wing of the National Gallery of Art? (The architect had to fit the
east wing of the gallery into a small triangular space, so he decided to make the building in the shape of
a triangle to better fit the lot. The building turned out to be marvelous. The gallery is located on Fourth
Street in Washington, D.C.)
Answer: I.M. Pei
Q9) What is the method use in computer drafting wherein 2d cross sections are assigned heights and
connected thereby forming a 3d object? This method is used mostly on irregular shaped structures or
objects.
Answer: Loft
Q10) Villa Capra (the rotunda) at Vicenza, Italy by Andrea Palladio is what type of spatial organization?
Q11) Which of the following Factors does NOT affect historic style of Architecture?
Answer: land use
Q12) Renaissance of 15th cen. In italy had its birth in ________.
Answer: Florence
Q13) A royal house used for political & social ceremonies of the Datu.
Answer: Maranao House
Q14) This is the proper title given by the Queen of England to Norman Foster, the quintessential british
architect.
Answer: Lord Norman Foster of Thames Bank
Q15) Hagia Sophia of Constantinople ( Istanbul) is what type of spatial organization?
Q16) A period in Mesopotamian art from the time of the Kassite invasion in c.1800 BC culminating with
the onset of Persian rule in 539 BC.
Answer: Babylonian Period
Answer: Amenemhat I
Q18) Which is the most important basic need of human settlement?
Answer: water
Answer: design
Q20) Colosseum, Rome was commenced by vespacian and completed by _________.
Answer: Domitian
Q21) "A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and fifty times: It is a beautiful
catastrophe." Who said this about the city that never sleeps?
Q22) It is the period in French which is characterized by pointed arches & geometric traceried windows.
Answer: Lancet
Q24) What type of form composition is the St. Mark's Tower in New York by Frank Lloyd Wright?
Answer: rotated grid form
Q25) It refers to the quality of surface treatment, associated with materials.
Answer: Texture
Q21) Entertainments not provided in the Colosseum were:
Answer: Chariot races
Q22) His work was with simple forms, the distillation from history and the order of industrial techniques,
these designs of bold, pure, simple forms offered both architectural integrity and structural honesty.
Answer: Mies van de Rohe
Q15) Frequently works on a large scale and is renowned for his sharp, geometric designs.
Answer: Ieoh Ming Pei
Q16) The Articulation of the importance of a form or soak by its size, shape or relative to the other forms
and spaces of the organizations?
Answer: Hierarchy
Q17) Sir Josph Paxton's design for Crystal Palace was derived from:
Answer: Water Lilies
Q10) Andrea Palladio also proposed several methods for determining the height of a room so that it
would be in proper proportion to the room's width and length. Which are NOT the correct proportion
for the ceiling height?
Answer: the height of circular rooms with vaulted ceilings would be one-half greater than their diameter
Q11) This is a Japanese gateway usually with three openings.
Answer: torii
Q6) Built the temple at Abu- Simbel.
Answer: Seti I
Q7) "I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the
rainbow." Who is the colorful, still-living architect of this quote?
Answer: Richard Meier
Q3) A purposeful activity aimed at devising a plan for changing an existing situation into a future
preferred state, esp. the cyclical, iterative process.

Q4) During Macedonian dynasty, favorite type of church plan is ________.
Answer: Greek Cross
Q1) In graphic arts, what it is an approximate representation, on a flat surface, of an image as seen by
the eye?
Answer: Perspective
Q1) Author of compilation on “five orders of architecture”.
Answer: Giacomo da Vignola
ornament itself.
Answer: Acroterion
Q3) Which of the following describes the art aspect of architecture?
Answer: none of listed items
Q4) "A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and fifty times: It is a beautiful
catastrophe." Who said this about the city that never sleeps?
Q5) The Amygdaloidal trap formationof living rocks in Buddhist architecture is called;
Answer: rath
Q6) In his practice he explores the use of indigenous materials infused with current technological trends
to bring a new dimension in designs.
Q7) Romanesque was the great age of the monasteries in _______.
Answer: England
Q8) The most distinguished part of the Sydney Opera House is the prominent roof structure made up of
large pre-cast concrete sections of spheres set on a monumental podium. What is the architectural style
of the Sydney Opera House?
Answer: Modern Expressionist
Q9) A projecting block or spur of stone carved with foliage to decorate the raking lines formed by angles
of spires and canopies is the _______.
Answer: Crocket
Q11) A polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular faces meeting at a common point or vertex?
Answer: pyramid
Q12) The most famous structure of Byzantine architecture and notable of its large dome.
Answer: Hagia Sophia
Q13) This famous dictum, “I am neither a capitalist nor a socialist, I am not a religious or an atheist”
belongs to.
Answer: Lucio Costa

Q14) Emperor of Byzantine empire who codified roman laws and responsible for rebuilding of s. Sophia
was ________.
Answer: Justinian
Q15) What type of distance is that which is psychological and is indicated by a hidden band that contains
two or more individuals in a group?
Answer: social distance
support?
Answer: Roman
Q17) The design of the early Christian Churches were based on the Roman __________ ?
Answer: Basilica
Q18) Which of the following describes Fajada Butte
1.It the location of the Sun Dagger site
2.The Sun Dagger site tracks solar equinoxes and solstices, as well as lunar minimum and maximum
extremes
3.The Sun Dagger site has two spirals, one large and one small, carved into the rock
4.It has numerous carvings and petroglyphs besides the Sun Dagger site
Answer: All of the four statements

Q19) The balanced distribution and arrangement of equivalent forms and spaces on opposite sides of a
dividing line or plane or about a center axis?
Answer: Symmetry
Q20) What art principle shows the relationships of architectural elements and is usually derived from
the human body or its spare parts as the basis of measurement system?
Answer: scale
Q21) What type of art outlines the crude realities of life, like filthy dustbins, mud, dirty works and vulgar
situations?
Answer: pop
Answer: Art Deco
Q23) Roman bridges are called _______.
Answer: Pons
Q24) Character of early christian arch is determined by the novel development of _________.
Answer: arched vaults
Q25) To whom are space frame systems and lamella construction attributed as contribution to
arcitecture?
Q1) The dry sweating room in the thermae is the _________.
Answer: Sudatorium
Q2) “Hall” churches are a special characteristic of _________.
Answer: German Gothic
Q3) This famous axiom “Each one sees whatever he wishes to see” belongs to __________.
Answer: Lucio Costa
Q4) A state of utter disorder or confusion?
Answer: chaos
Q5) In converting 2D objects to 3D objects, what object will be created if you rotate an inclined line at
either end points?
Answer: Cone
Q6) A line plane or volume that by its continuity and regularity, serves to gather, measure and organize a
pattern of forms and space?
Answer: Datum
Q7) The widely used order during the Greek period is the _______.
Answer: Doric
Q9) What is referred to as the origin of architecture?
Answer: practical usefulness of space

Q10) The architects of the Parthenon are _________.
Answer: Ictinus & Callicrates
Q11) Who created the Dymaxion House, the first machine for living?
Q12) Began the hypostyle hall at Karnak.
Answer: Rameses I
Q13) Character of early christian arch is determined by the novel development of _________.
Answer: arched vaults
Q14) The low table found in the bulwagan is called _________.
Answer: Dulang
Q15) Whose famous dictum is this: Unity disguised as chaos -complexity and contradiction are often
what make works of art both exciting and profound.
Answer: Robert Venturi
Q16) What is the purpose of the disks found on the tree trunks where the Ifugao house stands?
Answer: Protection against rats
Q17) When lines, planes, and surface treatments are repeated in a regular sequence.
Answer: rhythm
Q18) Architect of the “Reichstag” in Berlin ( Frankfort commerce bank building).
Answer: Norman Foster
Q19) Building in acropolis generally considered as being the most nearly perfect bldg ever erected is
________.
Answer: Parthenon
Q20) To whom are space frame systems and lamella construction attributed as contribution to
arcitecture?
Q21) Architect of (NBI) Nat’l. Bureau of Investigation, Taft Ave.
Answer: Otillo Arellano
Q22) Defines the limit of a boundaries or volume in a creative composition.
Answer: plane
Answer: Colosseum

Q5) The master sculptor of the Parthenon is ________.
Answer: Pheidias
Q6) A rectangle whose sides are proportioned according to the golden section is known as?
Answer: golden rectangle
Q7) Received the “Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinanagan “award for the city of manila, who is the architect?
Answer: Tomas Mapua
Q9) "Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead." Said by
what important woman architect?
Answer: Julia Morgan
Answer: Adolf Loos
Q11) A house is like a “flower pot"
Answer: Richard Josef Neutra
Q12) Architect of “ Salt Institute for Biological Studies, in La Jolla, California.

Answer: Louis Kahn
Q13) Which of the following describes Fajada Butte
1.It the location of the Sun Dagger site
2.The Sun Dagger site tracks solar equinoxes and solstices, as well as lunar minimum and maximum
extremes
3.The Sun Dagger site has two spirals, one large and one small, carved into the rock
4.It has numerous carvings and petroglyphs besides the Sun Dagger site
Answer: All of the four statements
Q14) Architect of Post Office Building.
Answer: Juan de Guzman Arellano
Q15) It gives a feeling of grandeur, dignity and monumentality.
Answer: scale
Q16) The male statue in kneeling position used in Greek Temples as columns & ornamental blocks
_______.
Answer: Atlantes
Q17) The dressing room in the thermae is called ________.
Answer: Apodyteria
Q18) The size of a building element or space relative to the dimensions and proportion of human body.
Answer: human scale
Q19) Architect of Chrysler Building.
Answer: Van Alen
Q20) This radical architect wrote the influential book "Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for
Manhattan".
Answer: Rem Koolhaas
Q21) Art Nouveau in Austria is known as ________.
Answer: Sezessione
Q22) A group process in which several people, for a given amount of time, gathers together and discuss
a particular problem. During this time, they all contribute positive thoughts to the discussion and try to
produce a workable solution.
Answer: brainstorming
Q23) This famous axiom “Each one sees whatever he wishes to see” belongs to __________.
Answer: Lucio Costa
Q24) "There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." -a famous qoute by
___________.

Q25) A movement founded by a group of Dutch painters & architects who abolish all styles & liberate art
from representation & individual expression.
Answer: Jugendstijl
Q1) Aerostyle should have an intercolumniation ht of?
Answer: 8D
Q2) The merging of juxtaposed dots or strokes of pure colors when seen from a distance to produce a
hue often more luminous than that available from premixed pigment.
Answer: optical color mixing
Q3) The upper portion of a pinnacle, bench-end, or other architectural feature is the _______.
Answer: Finial
Q4) The state or quality of being a whole composed of complicated, intricate or interconnected parts.
Answer: Complexity
Q5) Roman temples differ from Greek temples in their:
1. Axial orientation
2. Use of engaged columns
3. Prevalence of Ionic columns

4. Use of a podium
Answer: 1, 2, and 4
Q6) Development of dome to cover polygonal & square plans for churches, tombs and baptisteries is the
character of architecture of _________.
Answer: Romanesque
Q7) The Robie House was designed by which architect? (On the campus of the University of Chicago, in
Illinois, the Robie House stands on a beautiful corner lot. The building resembles a battleship. It is
considered by many as the greatest prairie-style house.
Answer: Adolf Loos
Q9) The youngest of the pioneer modernists, was instrumental in shifting the bias of the Bauhaus from
the Arts and Crafts” to Art and technology.
Q10) What type of structure uses materials not necessarily efficiently and where much of it is utilized
below its maximum load-bearing capacity? This is the type in which the structure of most buildings
should be placed.
Answer: minimal structure
Q11) The dressing room in the thermae is called ________.
Answer: Apodyteria
Q12) The principal floor of the Italian palazzo.
Answer: Piano nobile
Q13) 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.
Q14) He termed the "International Style" as "flat chested," because of lack of depth in their facades.
Q15) "Modern architecture need not be western".
Answer: Kenzo Tange
Q16) In his practice he explores the use of indigenous materials infused with current technological
trends to bring a new dimension in designs.
Q17) Architect, sculptor and engineer who was the main initiator of stylistic changes in Renaissance
architecture. The engineering feat represented by the cupola of Florence cathedral, staggered by his
contemporaries.
Answer: Brunelleschi, Fillippo
Q18) The prayer tower from the saracenic architecture;
Answer: Minaret
Q19) 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.
Answer: Robert Adam
Q20) A German architect who uses more representational styles which has been called “Scrapped
Classicism”.
Q21) A rectangle whose sides are proportioned according to the golden section is known as?
Answer: golden rectangle
Q22) The plan for the colosseum, rome, is shaped in the form of a _______.
Answer: ellipse
Q23) The most distinguished part of the Sydney Opera House is the prominent roof structure made up
of large pre-cast concrete sections of spheres set on a monumental podium. What is the architectural
style of the Sydney Opera House?
Answer: Modern Expressionist
Answer: Embrasures
Q25) Viewing from above a long river with different sizes of stones on both sides are what type of space
organization?
Answer: Datum
support?
Answer: Roman
Q2) This is a Japanese gateway usually with three openings.
Answer: torii
Q3) A system of elements ranked, classified, and organized one above another, according to importance
or significance?
Answer: alignment
Q4) In Graphic Arts, what is a protocol by which an image of a three-dimensional object is projected in a
planar surface without the aid of mathematical calculation?
Answer: Graphical projection
ornament itself.
Answer: Acroterion
Q6) At what architectural view does the "Devour House at Pennsylvania design by Louis Khan where
datum organization is clearly emphasized?
Answer: elevation
Q7) The architects of the Parthenon were:
Answer: Iktinos and Kallikrates

Q9) The Japanese teahouse is called _________.
Answer: cha-sit-su
Q10) “Design Science” is a philosophy of architect?
Q11) An upright ornament at the eaves of a tile roof, concealing the foot of a row of convex tiles that
cover the joints of the flat tiles.
Answer: Antefix
Q12) The physical dimension of length, width and depth of a form. It's scale is relative to its other form
in its context.
Answer: size
Q13) Which sensual type affects placement of rooms which could limit unpleasant odors?
Answer: olfactory
_______.
Q15) A prismatic solid bounded by "six" equal square sides, the angle between any two adjacent faces
being at right angle.
Answer: cube
Q16) "A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."
What architect of the tall said this?
Answer: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Q18) In 1934, Walter Gropius was able to leave Nazi Germany, lived and worked in Britain then finally
settled in the United States. He was influential in bringing what style of Architecture in the U.S.?
Answer: International modernism
Q19) That which corresponds to the Greek Agora is the Roman.
Answer: Forum
Q20) "A 1 Kilometer radius lake surrounded by villages with native houses and structures". What type of
spatial organization was described?
Answer: datum
Q21) The naos, epinaos and the _________ are the 3 chambers of the Greek temple.
Answer: Pronaos
Q23) Architect of Robinson's Galleria.
Answer: William Cosculluela
Q24) Assessing how well an implemented solution in use satisfies the specified goals and criteria.
Answer: reevaluation
Q25) Who said “Beauty grows from necessity, not from repetition of formulas”
Answer: Eliel Saarinen
Q1) Meso-American architecture is generally characterized by:
1. Large, steeply built temples, often with stairs on all four sides
2. Tablero and talud design
3. Ballcourts that served to reenact Mayan myth
4. The use of the true arch
Answer: 1, 2, and 3
Q2) What is the name of awning at the colosseum?
Answer: Velarium
Q6) Architect of the “PHIVOLCS” building in C.P. Garcia Ave., Diliman, Quezon City.
Answer: Froilan Hong
Q7) Which architect designed the Harwood-Stone House? (The Harwood-Stone House was built in
Northampton, Massachusetts. He designed what he calls "the ark," because if the building were flipped
over it would look like Noah's ark. This octagon house uses passive solar energy for heating).
Answer: Tullio Inglese
Q8) The Circular discs or post guards of Ifugao houses.
Answer: Halipan
Q10) What type of structure uses materials not necessarily efficiently and where much of it is utilized
below its maximum load-bearing capacity? This is the type in which the structure of most buildings
should be placed.
Answer: minimal structure

Q11) That part of the Elizabethan mansion which forms a Dignified Approach to the rooms above is
________.
Answer: Grand Staircase
Q12) Which is not true of the Lion Gate?
Answer: It is located at Pylos
Q13) What asian architecture is so rich in design that “no facet of any structure is left unadorned”?
Answer: Thai
Q15) Architect of the U.S. Embassy Building, Manila.
Answer: Aydelott
Q18) Architect of Post Office Building.
Answer: Juan de Guzman Arellano
Q19) A German architect who uses more representational styles which has been called “Scrapped
Classicism”.
Q20) What Architecture did they reintroduced the Classical Orders?
Answer: Renaissance
Q21) One of the Principles of Composition which is also known as "Formal Architecture".
Answer: Balance
Q24) 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.
Answer: Sir Norman Foster

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Q1) The windows of the bahay na bato is the made up of _________.

Answer: Peter Behrens

Q3) The type of stones used in the Stonehenge.

Answer: Blue stones

Answer: exaggerated elements

Q5) Finest example of French-Gothic architecture.

Answer: Chartres Cathedral

Q6) Art Nouveau in Austria is known as ________.

Answer: Oscar Niemeyer

Q8) Architect of Meralco Center Ortigas;

Answer: J. M. Zaragosa Araneta

Q9) The architect of Chrysler building in N.Y.

Q10) The 1995 Pritzker Laureate.

Answer: Tadao Ando

Answer: William Van Alen

Answer: Great Hall

Q14) Romanesque Revival in the USA was introduced by ________.

Answer: Henry H. Richardson

Q16) A house is like a “flower pot"

Answer: Richard Josef Neutra

Q18) Whose famous dictum or axiom is "Design as if you were a child"?

Answer: Michael Graves

Q19) Architect of Metropolitan Center, Manila.

Answer: Juan Arellano

Answer: International modernism

Answer: Charles Mackintosh

Answer: linear form

Answer: Vanishing Point

Q4) Architectural character of Romanesque style is ________.

Answer: sober & dignified

Q5) The cistern in the bahay na bato is known as _________.

Q6) Greek Temples stood on a foundation of three steps is called ________.

Answer: Rococo Arch.

Answer: Mies van der Rohe

Q10) Founded the great temple at Karnak.

Q11) The Japanese pyramidal roof is called _________.

Q12) It refers to the quality of surface treatment, associated with materials.

Q13) The FEU in Manila is an example of what architectural style?

Answer: Art Deco

Q14) Greatest patron of Romanesque Architecture is __________.

Answer: Christian Church

Answer: Ustad Ahmad Lahauri

Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright

2. The Maison Carree

3. The Baths of Caracalla

4. The Pont du Gard

Answer: Hagia Sophia

Q22) Which is not true of the Lion Gate?

Answer: It is located at Pylos

Q23) Architect of (NBI) Nat’l. Bureau of Investigation, Taft Ave.

Answer: Otillo Arellano

Q24) A line extended in a direction other than its intrinsic direction.

Answer: Ustad Ahmad Lahauri

Q4) The Greek wrestling school is known as _______.

Q5) Where is the Rajah Sulayman Grand Mosque located?

Q6) Who erected the earliest known obelisk at Heliopolis.

Q7) “A city is subjected to growth, delay and rebuilt” belongs to _________.

Answer: Kenzo Tange

Q9) Architect of Jai Alai, Manila.

Answer: Juan Nakpil

Answer: Oscar Niemeyer

Answer: Louis Sullivan

Q12) Who wrote “Treatise de Architectura”