THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE

1) A unified composition of two-dimensional shapes or three-dimensional volumes, especially one

that has or gives the impression of weight, density, and bulk.
a. Massing
b. Composition
c. Form
d. Perspective
2) The tendency of air or gas in a shaft or other vertical space to rise when heated, creating a draft
that draws in cooler air gas from below.
a. Effective Temperature
b. Chimney Effect/Stack Effect
c. Greenhouse Effect
d. Insulation Effect
3) A form can be transformed by altering one or more of its dimensions and still retain as a
member of a family of a form. A cube, for example, can be transformed into similar prismatic
forms through discrete changes in height, width, or length. It can be compressed into a planner
form or be stretched out into a linear one. What type of form transformation in the figure
shown below?
a. Dimensional transformation
b. Subtractive transformation
c. Additive transformation
d. Divisible transformation

4) The articulation of the importance or significance of a form or space by its size, shape, or
placement relative to the other forms and spaces of the organization.
a. Symmetry
b. Hierarchy
c. Axis
d. Rhythm
5) It is an Architectural manifesto by the Swiss-French architect, a set of principles for a modern
building.
a. Four books on Architecture
b. Five points of Architecture
c. Ten books of Architecture
d. Charter of Athens
6) The division of a line so that the whole is to the greater part as that is to the smaller part (i.e., in
a ratio of 1 to ½ (√5 +1)), a proportion which is considered to be particularly pleasing to the eye.
 a. Golden Ratio
b. Golden Section
c. Fibonacci Sequence
d. Modular
7) It uses color that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. One color is used as a dominant
color while others are used to enrich the scheme.
a. Monochromatic color scheme
b. Analogous color scheme
c. Complementary color scheme
d. Split complementary color scheme
8) In the Four books of Architecture, which book discusses the private town houses and country
estates.
a. First Book
b. Second Book
c. Third Book
d. Fourth Book
9) This refers to the manner in which the surfaces of a form come together to define its shape and
volume. It clearly reveals the precise nature of its parts and their relationships to each other and
to the whole.
a. Articulation
b. Form
c. Clustered form
d. Edge
10) It is a consequence of concrete frame construction. Because walls were then deprived of their
constructional role, their design became free as well…
a. Free Façade
b. Free Plan
c. Roof Gardens
d. Pilotis
11) If equally on the unknown broken wall, then regular repetition is present. What do you call this
type of rhythm?
a. Accented rhythm
b. Continuous rhythm
c. Unaccented rhythm
d. Rhythm by repetition
12) In 1942 Le Corbusier began his study and published “______” – a Harmonious Measure to the
human scale universally applicable to Architecture and Mechanics.
a. Vitruvian Man
b. The Modulor
c. Human dimension
d. Furnicube
13) A color that feels flat and lifeless, yet it provides enormous support to the other hues.
a. White
b. Black
 c. Purple
d. Grey
14) When elements compete with each other for the place of importance, there is a ________. This
causes ‘Duality’ or the presence of two strong conflicting personalities or masses resulting in
discord and redundancy.
a. Volume contradiction
b. Competition
c. Contrast
d. Confusion
15) Nakagin Capsule Tower by Kisho Kurokawa, identify what type of form composition?
a. Linear form
b. Grid form
c. Radial form
d. Cluster form
16) In architecture, this type of character bears a certain relation to the same attribute of an

individual. It is found that the element of personality plays an important part in the revealing
character of both with man and with architecture.
a. Personality Character
b. Personal Character
c. Expressive Character
d. Associated Character
17) The degree of concentration and stability of a form. It depends on its geometry as well as its
orientation relative to the ground plane and our line of sight.
a. Visual acceleration
b. Velocity of eyesight
c. Visual Inertia
d. Structure stability
18) The primary shapes can be extended or rotated to generate volumes whose forms are distinct,
regular and easily recognizable. These forms are referred to as the?
a. Polyhedron
b. Platonic solids
c. Tectonics
d. Dynamic Shapes
19) Villa Capra (the rotunda) at Vicenza, Italy by Andrea Palladio is what type of spatial
organization?
a. Grid organization
b. Radial organization
c. Centralized organization
d. Clustered organization
20) It bears a certain relation to the same attribute to the life of an individual.
a. Functional character
b. Personal character
c. Relative proportion
d. Balance
21) Refers to the quality of surface treatment, associated with materials.
a. Tone
b. Mass
c. Volume
d. Texture
22) A color produced by combining lights of red, green, and blue wavelengths. These light or
additive primaries contain all the wave lengths necessary to produce a colorless or white light.
a. Subtractive Color
b. Primary Color
c. Selective Color
d. Additive Color
23) This color is relatively long and stimulating. It is the considered as the strongest color
psychologically as it perceives optimism, confidence, self-esteem, extraversion, emotional
strength, friendliness, creativity.
a. Orange
b. Red
c. Yellow
d. Blue
24) A Pritzker Prize awardee 2015, German architect and structural engineer noted for his use of
lightweight structures, in particular tensile and membrane structure, including the roof of the
Olympic Stadium in Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics.
a. Jean Nouvel
b. Frei Paul Otto
c. Sir James Frazer Stirling
d. Gottfried Bohm
25) “Form is the mystery that defies description but brings people pleasure.”. Who’s dictum is this?
a. Michael Graves
b. Antonio Gaudi
c. Alvar Aalto
d. Adolf Loos
26) In all of his works, light is an important controlling factor. His use of concrete is impeccable
leaving its natural color and texture and almost become his trademark design.
a. Oscar Niemeyer
 b. Eero Saarinen
c. Gottried Boehm
d. Tadao Ando
27) In geometry, a two- or three-dimensional space in which the axioms and postulates of Euclidean
geometry apply.
a. Expressive space
b. Euclidian space
c. Aesthetic space
d. Visual space
28) A model developed in Germany by Bassam Tibi, where the idea is that minorities can have an
identity of their own, but they should at least support the core concepts of the culture on which
the society is based.
a. Core Culture
b. Monoculturalism
c. Melting Pot
d. Multiculturalism
29) Direct borrowing from one culture to another.
a. Stimulus diffusion
b. Innovative diffiusion
c. Tangible diffusion
d. Transculturation
30) An applied science concerned with the characteristics of people that need to be considered in
the design of devices and systems in order that people and things will interact effectively and
safely.
a. Anthropomorphism
b. Anthropocentrism
c. Anthropometrics
d. Ergonomics
31) A Primary Element of form that has the properties of length, width, shape, surface, orientation,
and position.
a. Point
b. Plane
c. Line
d. Volume
32) A type of character that results directly from the purpose of the use of the building.
a. Character
b. Personal Character
c. Functional Character
d. Traditional Character
33) Concrete textured by leaving the impression of the form in which it was modeled, as when wood
is used to create a grained surface affect.
a. Genius Loci
b. Pop Architecture
c. Beton Brut
 d. Abstraction
34) A form can be transformed by altering one or more of the dimensions and still retain its identity
as a member of a family of forms.
a. Additive Transformation
b. Dimensional Transformation
c. Subtractive Transformation
d. Centralized Form
35) This type of relationship requires that the two forms have corresponding planar surfaces which
are parallel to each other.
a. Spatial Tension
b. Face to Face contact
c. Edge to Edge contact
d. Interlocking volumes
36) It is the most common type of spatial relationship. It allows each space to be clearly defined and
to respond, each in its own way, to specific functional or symbolic requirements. It can be
defined with a row of columns, walls, free standing plane.
a. Space linked by a common space
b. Interlocking spaces
c. Adjacent spaces
d. Space within a space
37) The size or proportion of a building element or space, or an article of furniture related to the
structural or functional dimensions of the human body.
a. Visual Scale
b. Mechanical scale
c. Generic Scale
d. Human Scale
38) One of the three dimensions of colors, the purity or vividness of a hue also called as intensity.
a. Saturation
b. Chroma
c. Hue
d. Value
39) What is “amihan”
a. Southwest Monsoon
b. Northeast Monsoon
c. Southeast Monsoon
d. Northwest Monsoon