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THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE 1 c) Plane

d) Shape
1. The logical arrangement of windows
5. The ability of individuals or groups of
in a building.
individuals to control their visual,
a) Envelope
auditory, and olfactory interactions
b) Fenestration
with others.
c) Rhythm
a) Territoriality
d) Balance
b) Privacy
2. A kind of spatial organization which
c) Individuality
consists of repetitive cellular spaces
d) Anomalism
grouped by proximity or by the
6. The architect whose dictum includes
sharing of a common trait or
“less is more”
relationship
a) Alvar Aalto
a) Centralized
b) Le Corbusier
b) Radial
c) Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
c) Clustered
d) Frank Lloyd Wright
d) Grid
7. Permit the entrance of light and
3. An applied science concerned with
circulation of air.
the characteristics of people that
a) Window
need to be considered in the design
b) Door
of devices and systems in order that
c) Clerestory
people and things will interact
d) ventilator
effectively and safely
8. In its broadest sense, may mean the
a) Anthropometrics
general terrain or contour of the
b) Ergonomics
surface of the entire country.
c) Architecture
a) Site analysis
d) Design Engineering
b) Topography
4. A term that refers to the edge
c) Climate
contour of a plane or the silhouette
d) Site location
of a volume .
9. The gifts of nature for the structures
a) Form
of man are limestone, marble, pine
b) Mass

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and mahogany, etc. (timber) clay for 12. In an architectural discussion the

brick and ore for metals. accepted definition of form deals

a) Building materials with shape and when the figure is

b) Furnishes three dimensional, it becomes mass.

c) Coverings a) Mass

d) furniture b) Tone

10. The flowing whiskers, beribboned c) Form

bonnets, mutton- leg sleeves, and d) size

bustles were simply a reflection of 13. can be vigorous or weak; it can have

the jig-saw ornament and sheet- vitality and strength, or it may be

metal cornices of the buildings of indecisive and faltering. If it is

that period. Again, it was an ugly correctly composed in an arresting

and drab variety, without the color of manner, mass alone will arouse a

the French Renaissance. definite emotional reaction. It will

a) French stimulate the observer with the

b) Victorian sense of its completeness.

c) Greek Ornament should simply enhance a

d) Japanese building.

11. The desire for freedom of movement a) Mass

and an interest in athletics is b) Tone

reflected in the contemporary c) Form

movement in architecture, which, in d) size

seeking to interpret buildings in 14. A plane extended in a direction other

terms of the needs of the people, is than its intrinsic direction.

placing the emphasis upon plain wall a) Cylinder

surfaces. b) Area

a. Minimalist c) Volume

b. Modern d) mass

c. Contemporary 15. It Is a variety in the use of the

d. Futuristic gradations from black to white.

a) Mass

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b) Tone 19. A form's location relative to its

c) Form environment or visual .

d) size a) Orientation

16. The real dimensions of form, its b) Envelope

length, width and depth; while these c) Position

dimensions determine the d) location

proportions of a form, its scale is 20. A form's position relative to the

determined by its size relative to ground plane, the compass points or

other forms in its context. to the person viewing the form.

a) Mass a) Orientation

b) Tone b) Envelope

c) Form c) Position

d) Size d) location

17. The hue, intensity, and total value of 21. The primary shapes can be

a form's surface; color is the attribute extended or rotated to generate

that most clearly distinguishes a volumes whose forms are distinct,

form from its environment. It also regular and easily recognizable.

affects the visual weight of a form. These forms are referred to as the. –

a) Neutral a) Regular form

b) Grayscale b) Irregular form

c) Monochromatic c) Platonic solid

d) color d) fluidity

18. The surface characteristic of a form; 22. It refer to those whose parts are

texture affects both tattile and light- related to one another in a

reflective qualities of a form's consistent and orderly manner. They

surfaces. are generally. stable in nature and

a) Grain symmetrical about one or more

b) Properties axes.

c) Texture a) Regular form

d) sharpen b) Irregular form

c) Platonic solid

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d) fluidity

23. It regarding a form's original identity

will result if the portion removed from

its volume erodes its edges and

drastically alters its profile.

a) Spatial tension

b) Ambiguity

c) Circulation

d) architecture

24. This type of relationship requires

that the two forms be relatively close

to each other, or share a common

visual trait such as shape, material

of color.

a. Spatial tension

b. Ambiguity

c. Circulation

d. Envelope

25. It define the meeting of two planes.

a) Edge

b) Corner

c) Intersection

d) tangent

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ANSWER KEYS 24. A. SPATIAL TENSION

1. B. FENESTRATIONS 25. B. CORNER

2. C. CLUSTERED

3. B. ERGONOMICS

4. D SHAPE

5. A. TERRITORIALITY

6. B. LE CORBUSIER

7. A. WINDOW

8. B. TOPOGRAPHY

9. A. BUILDING MATERIALS

10. B. VICTORIAN

11.C. CONTEMPORARY

12. C.FORM

13. A. MASS

14. C. VOLUME

15. B. TONE

16. D. SIZE

17. D. COLOR

18. C. TEXTURE

19. C. POSITION

20. A. ORIENTATION

21. C. PLATONIC SOLID

22. A. REGULAR FORM

23. B. AMBIGUITY

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THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2 c) Adjacent space

d) Parallel space
1. The Euclidean approach has
6. It consists of two spaces whose
recently been. Stimulated by the
fields overlap to form a zone of
importance of three - dimensional
shared space.
geometry.
a. Space within space
a) eclidean space
b. Interlocking space
b) physical space
c. Adjacent space
c) anthropometrics
d. Overhead space
d) visual space
7. This allow each space to be clearly
2. Objects are designed for people's
defined and to respond, each its own
convenience and comfort.
way, to its functional or symbolic
a) Eclidean space
requirements.
b) Physical space
a) Space within space
c) Anthropometrics
b) Interlocking space
d) Visual space
c) Adjacent space
3. the measurement of the size and
d) Overhead space
proportions of the human body
8. A horizontal plane elevated above
a) eclidean space
the ground plane establishes vertical
b) physical space
surfaces along its edges that
c) anthropometric
reinforces the visual separation
d) visual space
between its field and the surrounding
4. A place to rest the eyes.
ground.
a) Eclidean space
a) based plane elevated
b) Physical space
b) based plane depressed
c) Anthropometrics
c) overhead plane
d) Visual space
d) space within space
5. A large space can envelop, and
9. A horizontal plane depressed into
contain within its volume, a smaller
the ground plane utilizes the vertical
space.
surfaces of the de· pression to
a) Interlocking space
define a volume of space.
b) Space within space

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a) Space within space 14. Path prolongs the sequence of the

b) Based plane depressed approach, and emphasizes the

c) Based plane elevated three-dimensional form of a building

d) Overhead plane as it moves around the building's

10. A horizontal plane located overhead perimeter.

defines a volume of space between a) Frontal

itself and the ground plane. b) Oblique

a) Based plane elevated c) Spiral

b) Based plane depressed d) flush

c) Overhead elevated 15. The entrances maintain the

d) Overhead plane continuity of a walls' surface, and

11. The sensation of movement or strain can be, if desired, deliberately

in muscles, tendons, joints. obscured.

a) Parametric a) Frontal

b) Tension b) Oblique

c) Kinesthetic c) Spiral

d) paradoxical d) flush

12. .Approach leads directly to a 16. The entrances announce their

building's entrance along a straight, function to the approach and provide

axial path. shelter overhead.

a) Frontal a) Projected

b) Oblique b) Sematics

c) Spiral c) Recessed

d) flush d) overhead

13. Approach enhances the effect of 17. The entrances also provide shelter

perspective on a building's front and receive a portion of exterior

facade and form.. space into the realm of the building.

a) Frontal a) Recessed

b) Oblique b) Projected

c) Spiral c) Sematics

d) flush d) overhead

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18. Meaning is not only the first mental b) Pragmatic design

entity to come into consciousness, c) Analogical design

but that it is also the entity which d) canonic

commonly inspires creative work. A 21. The drawing of analogies (usually

memory image of an earlier visual) into the solution of one's

perceived form changes in the design problems with existing

direction of the nearest form. buildings, with forms from nature,

a) Projected from painting and so on.

b) Sematics a) Typologic design

c) Overhead b) Analogical design

d) recessed c) Canonic

19. In which available materials are d) Pragmatic design

used, earth, stones, tree trunks 22. In which the form is generated by

branches, leaves, reeds bamboos, some two or three dimensional

animal skins, tendons were put geometric system, originated by the

together initially by trial and error Egyptians given extensive

until a building form was achieved philosophical stiffening by the

which actually 'worked'. Greeks (plato, Aristotle) and utilized

a) Typologic design in the design of the Gothic

b) Pragmatic design catnedrals, renaissance palaces and

c) Analogical design so on.

d) canonic a) Canonic

20. In which the members of a particular b) Typologic design

culture share a fixed 'mental image' c) Analogical design

of what the design of the building d) Pragmatic design

form should be 'like using the 23. Prefabricated reinforced concrete

materials which happen to be which have been cast and cured in a

available, at a particular place with a factory rather than in place on the

particular climate, to house an site.

established life-style a) Precast concrete

a) Typologic design b) Prestressing

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c) Lift slab

d) ekistics

24. It is a basic principle of design in

which stresses are buift into a

structural element, such as a beam,

in order to offset load-carrying

stresses.

a) Precast concrete

b) Prestressing

c) Lift slab

d) Ekistics

25. The science of human settlements.

a) Ethnocentrism

b) Proxemics

c) Ekistics

d) Tectonics

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ANSWER KEYS 24. B. PRESTRESSING

1. A. ECLIDEAN SPACE 25. C. EKISTICS

2. B. PHYSICAL SPACE

3. C. ANTHROPOMETRICS

4. D. VISUAL SPACE

5. B. SPACE WITHIN A SPACE

6. B. INTERLOCKING SPACE

7. C. ADJACENT SPACE

8. A. BASED PLANE ELAVATED

9. B. BASED PLANE DEPRESSED

10. D. OVERHEAD PLANE

11. C. KINESTHETIC

12. A. FRONTAL

13. B. OBLIQUE

14. C. SPIRAL

15. D. FLUSH

16. A. PROJECTED

17. A.RECESSED

18. B. SEMATICS

19. B. PRAGMATIC DESIGN

20. A. TYPOLOGIC DESIGN

21. B. ANALOGICAL DESIGN

22. A. CANONIC

23. A. PRECAST CONCRETE

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