PAMOTONGAN, JAY B.

ACOMPRE ARCP04

1. A style which is primarily French in origin, rock-like forms, fantastic scrolls, and crimped shells.
Profuse, often semi-abstract ornamentation, light in color and weight.
a. Gothic - is an architectural style that flourished in Europe during the High and Late
Middle Ages.
b. Rococo - is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and
decoration, often described as the final expression of the Baroque movement.
c. Purist – where Roman tradition was held in high respect (represented by Andrea
Palladio)
d. Mannerist – where practices which had no Roman precedent, it uses architectural
elements in a free, decorative and illogical way.

B. Rococo

2. A City in Italy where the Renaissance had its birth?

a. Venice – A City in Italy which had a Venetian Gothic as its local variant architectural style
b. Rome – Splendidly presented by examples of High Renaissance and Proto – baroque.
c. Milan - the main city of northern Italy and one of the most populous metropolitan areas
in Europe.
d. Florence - The development of a uniquely Renaissance style centered on this city, the
town often called the "birthplace of the Renaissance."

D. Florence

3. A special feature of Italian Architecture and represents a period of Christianity, it is large and is a
separate building.
a. Campanile – are civic monuments rather than integral part of the church, and is a
symbol of power and served as watch guard.
b. Sanctuary – it is an area around the altar, it is also considered holy because of the
physical presence of God in the Eucharist.
c. Baptistery - is the separate centrally planned structure surrounding the baptismal font.
d. Tabernacle - is a fixed, locked box in which, in some Christian churches, the Eucharist is
"reserved" (stored).

C. Baptistery

4. One of the most remarkable buildings in 19th century, it housed the Great Exhibition of 1851,
erected in Hyde Park, moved to Sydenham in 1852 to 1854 to display technologies developed in
the Industrial Revolution.
a. Crystal Palace - was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park,
London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.
 b. Westminster New Palace - known as the Houses of Parliament, serves as the meeting
place for both the House of Commons and the House of Lords
c. The Opera House - The Palais Garnier is a 1,979-seat opera house at the Place de l'Opéra
in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France.
d. Empire State Building – is a Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan in New York
City, and it was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930-1931.

A. Crystal Palace

5. Is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished
internationally throughout the 1930s and into the World War II era.
a. Art Nouveau - Derived from the “Arts and Crafts Movement” in Britain, it is also an art
free of any historical style.
b. Art Deco - a style of decoration that was especially popular in the 1930s and uses simple
shapes and lines and strong colours.
c. Arts & Crafts Movement - in Britain in the tradition of craft guilds in the Middle Ages led
by artist-craftsman William Morris, ar. Philip Webb and writer John Ruskin.
d. None of the Above

B. Art Deco

6. Frank Lloyd Wright, in an effort to get prominence in Europe, toured for a year bringing along a
document that ignited the 1st generation of Modernist architects. What is this document?
a. Bar Tracery – glass panels were held between narrow stone mullions made up of
carefully shaped lengths of masonry fitten together with mortar & metal pins.
b. Wasmuth Portfolio – is a work of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, it was
published in Germany in 1911 by the Berlin publisher Ernst Wasmuth.
c. Document of architecture treatise - has been regarded as the first book on architectural
theory, and it’s based on Vitruvius’ own experience.
d. None of the Above

B. Wasmuth Portfolio

7. It is said to be heralded by the return of wit, ornament and reference to architecture in response
to the formalism of the international style of modernism.
a. Brutalism - a movement in architecture that flourished from 1950’s to the mid 1970’s
descending from the modernist arch’l movement of the early 20th century.
b. Deconstructivism - A strand of postmodernist, opposed to the ordered rationality of
geometry, preferring a non-rectilinear approach to design.
c. International Style - it became the dominant tendency in American architecture during
the middle decades of the 20th century.
d. Postmordenism - It is said to be heralded by the return of wit, ornament and reference
to architecture in response to the formalism of the international style of modernism.

D. Postmodernism
8. A genius of modern architecture, established a school in Weimar and lived his life as an architect
who “can’t draw”.
a. Le Corbusier - was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer,
and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.
b. Peter Behrens - was a leading German architect and industrial designer, best known for
his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909.
c. Walter Gropius - established Bauhaus, a school or training intended to relate art and
architecture to technology and the practical needs of modern life.
d. Mies Van der Rohe - was a German-American architect, he is regarded as one of the
pioneers of modernist architecture.

C. Walter Gropius

9. A constructive method that relates the geometry of the architecture on a proportional system,
specifically used in the architectural design of classic styles such as the Gothic and Renaissance.
a. Firmitas - is a building’s ability to remain durable after extended use and exposure to
the natural elements.
b. Golden Ratio – was used in Ancient Greek architecture to determine pleasing
dimensional relationships between the width of a building and its height.
c. Ad Triangulum - The most prominent geometrical patterns produced according to the
Euclidean postulates are those developed from square within a circle.
d. None of the Above

C. Ad Triangulum

10. It is the most important Renaissance building in Italy, with cathedral, piazza and the Vatican,
forms a world famous group.
a. St. Peter’s Basilica – most important Renaissance building in Italy with cathedral, piazza
and the Vatican, forms a world-famous group.
b. Palais du Louvre – built from Francis I to Napoleon III together with Tuilleries, 45 acres
constituting one of the most imposing palaces in Europe.
c. Florence Cathedral - is the cathedral of Florence, it was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style
to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by 1436.
d. Notre Dame Cathedral - is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité in the 4th
arrondissement of Paris, and it was consecrated to the Virgin Mary.

A. St. Peter’s Basilica