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FAMOUS DICTUMS

MULTIPLE CHOICE;

1.

Form accommodates function


a.
b.
c.
d.

Buckminster Fuller
Robert Venturi
Paul Rudolf
Louis Sullivan

Art and Architecture, The new


unity
2.

a.
b.
c.
d.

Antonio Gaudi
Walter Gropius
Louis Kahn
Le Corbusier

Function influence but does


not dictate form
3.

a.
b.
c.
d.

Eero Saarinen
Le Corbusier
Kenzo Tange
Marcus Vitruvius Poll

4.

Form follows function


a.
b.
c.
d.

Buckminster Fuller
Louis Sullivan
Marcel lajos breuer
Le Corbusier

Modern architecture need


not to be western
5.

a.
b.
c.
d.

Kenzo Tange
I.M. Pei
Tadao Ando
Arata Isozake

6.

Cube within a cube


a.
b.
c.
d.

Walter Gropius
Le Corbusier
Kenzo Tange
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

7.

Architecture is Organic
a.
b.
c.
d.

Mies Van de Rohe


Walter Gropius
Le Corbusier
Frank Lloyd wright

8.

a.
b.
c.
d.

Less is more
Walter Gropius
Kenzo Tange
Louis Kahn
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

9.

The city must be subject to


growth, decay and renewal
a.
b.
c.
d.

Kenzo Tange
Le Corbusier
Frank Lloyd Wright
Paul Rudolf

10. Form does not necessarily follow

function

Father of fantastic architecture


a.
b.
c.
d.

Antonio Gaudi
Walter Gropius
Lousi Khan
Le Corbusier

11. Less is a bore.

unity disguised as chaoscomplexity and contradiction are


often what make works of art both
exciting and profound.
a.
b.
c.
d.

Paul Rudolf
Robert Venturi
Antonio Gaudi
Philip Johnson

12. A house is a machine to live in

a.
b.
c.
d.

Frank Lloyd wright


Le Corbusier
Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe
Walter Gropius

13. A bridge is like a house

a.
b.
c.
d.

Eero Saarinen
Louis Kahn
Robert Maillart
Kenzo Tange

14. A house is house

a.
b.
c.
d.

Le Corbusier
Robert Maillart
Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe
Louis Kahn

15. Architecture must meet 3

requirement: strength, beauty and


unity
a.
b.
c.
d.

Walter Gropius
Marcus Vitruvius Pollo
Louis kahn
Robert Maillart

16. Beauty grows from necessity, not

from repertition of formulas


a.
b.
c.
d.

Eliel Saarinen
Marcus Vitruvius Pollo
Louis kahn
Robert Maillart

17. A house is like a flower pot

a.
b.
c.
d.

Richard Josef Neautra


Marcus Vitruvius Pollo
Louis kahn
Robert Maillart

18. Ornament is crime & all

ornamentation must be rejected


a.
b.
c.
d.

Adolf Loos
Marcus Vitruvius Pollo
Louis kahn
Robert Maillart

19. Created the maxiom house, the

first machine for living


a.
b.
c.
d.

Adolf Loos
Marcus Vitruvius Pollo
Buckminster Fuller
Robert Maillart

20. Author of compilation on five

order of Architecture
a.
b.
c.
d.

Eero Saarinen
Giacomo Da Vignola
Robert Maillart
Kenzo Tange

21. The Structure must be well

oriented
a.
b.
c.
d.

Eero Saarinen
Giacomo Da Vignola
Cesar Homer concio
Kenzo Tange

22. Art noveau

a.
b.
c.
d.

Eero Saarinen
Giacomo Da Vignola
Cesar Homer concio
Jegendstijl

23. Expressionist Architect

a.
b.
c.
d.

Erich Mendelsohn
Giacomo Da Vignola
Cesar Homer concio
Jegendstijl

24. Founder of the ART NOVEUA

a.
b.
c.
d.

Cesar Pelli
John Ruskin & William Morks
Antonio Gaudi
Jegendstijl

25. Architect must meet three

requirements strength, beauty,


unity.
a.
b.
c.
d.

Otto Wagner
Frie Otto
Antonio Gaudi
Marcus Vitruvius Pollo

26. Expressionist Architect.

a.
b.
c.
d.

JJP Oud
Erich Mendelsohn
Zaha Hadid
Max Berg

27. Known to be father of

fantastic architecture.
a.
b.
c.
d.

Adolf Meyer
Victor Horta
Tony Garnier
Antonio Gaudi

28. "The building which was known as

the falling water" designed by FLW.


a.
b.
c.
d.

Richard Neutra
Kaufman House
Victor Horta
Max Berg

29. Coated tension structures

attributed as a (Otto) contribution


to Architecture.
a.
b.
c.
d.

Minuro Yamasaki
August Perret
Frie Otto
Mies van de Rohe

30. who wrote the tretise de

architectura.
a.
b.
c.
d.

Minuro Yamasaki
Marcus Vitruvius Pollo
Frie Otto
Peter Behrens

31. "The architect of the Bi-Nuclear

house, The H-plan.


a.
b.
c.
d.

Marcel Lajos Breur


Richard Neutra
Frie Otto
Peter Behrens

32. Architectural form equals

social form.

a. Marcel Lajos Breur


b. Richard Neutra

c. Eero Saarinen
d. Peter Behrens

33. All architects wnat to live

beyond their deaths.

a. Minuro Yamasaki

b. Philip Johnson
c. Frie Otto
d. Peter Behrens

34. Make no little plans, they have no

magic to stir mens blood.


a.
b.
c.
d.

Richard Neutra
Daniel Burnham
Victor Horta
Max Berg

35. Make big plans, aim high in

hope and work, remembering that a


noble, logical diagram once recorded
will not die.
a.
b.
c.
d.

Richard Neutra
Kaufman House
Victor Horta
Daniel Burnham

36. Architecture starts when you

carefully put two brick together


there it begins.

a. Ludwig mies van der rohe


b. Giacomo Da Vignola
c. Cesar Homer concio
d. Jegendstijl

37. Architecture is the will of an

epoch translated into space.


a. Eero Saarinen
b. Le Corbusier

c. Ludwig mies van der rohe


d. Marcus Vitruvius Poll

38. Every great architect is -

necessarily a great poet. The must


be a great original interpreter of his
time, his day his age.
a.
b.
c.
d.

Frank lloyd wright


Le Corbusier
Frank Lloyd Wright
Paul Rudolf

39. Form follows function that has

been misunderstood. Form and


function should be one joined in a
spiritual union.
a.
b.
c.
d.

Le Corbusier
Frank Lloyd Wright
Paul Rudolf
Frank lloyd wright

Have a blessed day


everyonegood luck!

By: JHMB/01july2012

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