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1. From what style of architecture were the

Chinese pagodas derived?
a. Indian
b. European
c. Muslim
d. Japanese
2. The building in the acropolis generally
considered as being the most nearly perfect
building ever erected is the__.
a. Acroterion
b. Prytaneion
c. Anthemion
d. Parthenon
3. Strictly, a pedestal at the corners or peak of a
roof to support an ornament, more usually, the
ornament itself.
a. Acroterion
b. Anthemion
c. Antefix
d. Apotheca
4. In early Christian churches, the bishop took the
central place at the end of the called
_________.
a. Narthex
b. Apse
c. Nave
d. Naos
5. Architect of the temple of Zeus, Olympia
a. Theron
b. Mnesicles
c. Libon
d. Cossutus
6. The colosseum in Rome also known as the
flavian ampitheater
was commenced by
whom and completer by
whom?

a.
b.
c.
d.

Vespasian/Domitian
Theodosius II
Nero
Julius Caesar

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7. With regards to relationship of structure to
architecture, which of the following describes
formal or sculptured structure?
a. Uses least amount of material
b. Exaggerated elements
c. Focuses on novelty of form
d. Materials used below maximum loadbearing capacity
8. The architect who said that the exterior of the
building is the result of the interior.
a. Frank Lloyd Wright
b. Mies Van de Rohe
c. Le Corbusier
d. William Ruskin
9. Greek architecture was essentially.
a. Columnar trabeated
b. Domical roof construction
c. Helm Roof
d. Arch and vault
10. The architect of Pantheon.
a. Vitruvius
b. Agrippa
c. Bernini
d. Hadrian
11. He created the Dymaxion House, the first
machine for living.
a. Le Corbusier
b. Buckminster Fuller
c. Marcel Lajos Breuer
d. Louis Sullivan
12. Which of the following indicates the name of a
color?
a. Hue
b. Chroma
c. Value
d. Intensity
13. Architecture is Organic
a. Walter Gropius
b. Frank Lloyd Wright
c. Mies Van de Rohe
d. Le Corbusier
14. The memorial column built in the form of tall
Doric order and made entirely of marble is ___.
a. Column of Diocletian
b. Column of Marcus Aurelius
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c. Trajans Column
d. Column of Antoninus Pius
15. An ancient Greek Portico, a long colonnaded
used in public spaces.
a. Anthemion
b. Stoa
c. Antefix
d. Pteroma
16. Roman architect of the Greek Temples of Zeus,
Olympius.
a. Mnesicles
b. Cossutius
c. Theron
d. Libon
17. Sculptor for the Bonifacio Monument
a. Ang Kiukok
b. Guillermo Tolentino
c. Antonio Guillermo
d. Antonio Tolentino
18. Which of the following is a major contribution
of Early Christian architecture?
a. Exterior peristyle
b. Basilican type of cruciform plan
c. Column and lintel
d. Corbelled arch
19. Mies Van de Rohe first envisioned the all-glass
skyscraper in the 1920s. A true genius, he
designed a structure that could not be built at
that time, but some thirty years later the
technology was at hand. The long-held dream of
the crystalline tower was finally realized in
these famous building, 38 stories of black steel
and glass.
a. S.R. Crown Hall
b. Seagram Building
c. Lever House
d. Lakeshore Drive Apartment
20. Which of the order was added by the Romans
to the orders used by the Greeks.
a. Doric
b. Corinthian
c. Ionic
d. Composite
21. Orientation of the Medieval Church.
a. West
b. East
c. North
d. South

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22. The dominating personalirt who became an
ardent disciple of the Italian renaissance style.
a. John Vanbrugh
b. William Chambers
c. Christopher Wren
d. Iigo Jones
23. The father of modern picture books of
Architecture.
a. Leon Battista Alberti
b. Andrea Palladio
c. Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
d. Philibert De Lorme
24. The Arabesque surface ornamentation
originated from what style of architecture.
a. Muslim
b. Japanese
c. Chinese
d. Thai
25. The oldest and most important forum in Rome.
a. Imperial Forum
b. Forum Romanum
c. Forum Vinarium
d. Forum Cuppedinis
26. Architect of the National Library, Philippines
a. Felipe Mendoza
b. Jose Herrera
c. Cesar Concio
d. Juan Nakpil
27. Architect of Batasang Pambansa
a. Gabriel Formoso
b. Leandro Locsin
c. Felipe Mendoza
d. George Ramos
28. The final plan shape of the St.Peters Basilica by
Carlo Maderna.
a. English Cross
b. Latin Cross
c. Greek Cross
d. Frenc Cross
29. Parts of an entablature
i. Cornice
ii. Frieze
iii. Architrave
a. iii, i, ii
b. i, ii, iii
c. i, iii, ii
d. ii, i, iii
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30. Architects of Hagia Sophia (St.Sophia,
Constantinople)
a. Cossutius and Mnesicles
b. Theron and Libon
c. Callicrates and Ictinus
d. Anthemius and Isidorus
31. The architect who claim that, The ultimate of
the new architecture was the composite but
inseparable work of an art, in which the old
dividing line between monumental and
decorative elements will have disappeared
forever.
a. Le Corbusier
b. Walter Gropius
c. Mies Van de Rohe
d. Frank Lloyd Wright
32. Mexican Architect/Engineer who introduced
thin shell construction.
a. Carlos Rodriguez
b. Francisco Sanchez
c. Felix Outerino Candela
d. Luis Soria y Mata
33. The mineral of greatest importance to Greek
architecture of which Greece and her domains
had ample supply was.
a. Lime
b. Marble
c. Silica
d. Cement
34. Architect of Central Bank of the Philippines,
Manila
a. George Ramos
b. Froilan Hong
c. Leandro Locsin
d. Gabriel Formoso
35. The architect of Quiapo Church before its
restoration.
a. Jose Herrera
b. Tomas Mapua
c. Juan Nakpil
d. Cesar Concio
36. This church, 1st built by the Augustinian Fr.
Miguel Murguia, has an unusually large bell
which was made from approximately 70 sacks
of coins donated by the towns people.
a. Panay Cathedral in Capiz
b. Las Pias Cathedral
c. Quiapo Church
d. Laoag Cathedral

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37. Which historic style of architecture first
introduced the clerestory?
a. Greek
b. Egyptian
c. Roman
d. West Asiatic
38. The Hot room of the Thermae
a. Unctuaria
b. Calidarium
c. Tepidarium
d. Sudatorium
39. A type of Roman wall facing which is made of
small stone laid in a loose pattern roughly
resembling polygonal work.
a. Opus Mixtum
b. Opus Reticulatum
c. Opus Tesselatum
d. Opus Incertum
40. With the use of concrete made possible by
pozzolan, a native natural cement,the Romans
achieved huge interiors with the..
a. Helm Roof
b. Domical roof construction
c. Columnar trabeated
d. Arch and vault
41. Buddhist architecture shown in rock-cut
temples with lavishly carved interiors is a
characteristic feature of what style of
architecture?
a. Indian
b. Filipino
c. Chinese
d. Japanese
42. How many stained glass are
there in the Chartres
Cathedral?
a. 176
b. 168
c. 186
d. 167
43. The first plan shape of the St.Peters Basilica by
Bramante.
a. Greek Cross
b. Latin Cross
c. Spanish Cross
d. Roman Cross
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44. Public buildings are important structures in
Greek architecture. What do you call the town
square used as center of Greek social and
business life?
a. Tenemos
b. Stoa
c. Propylae
d. Agora
45. He erected the entrance Piazza at St. Peters
Basilica.
a. Bernini
b. Agrippa
c. Hadrian
d. Vitruvius
46. Tomb of Atreus, a noted example of the tholos
type of tomb is also known as:
a. Tomb of Agamemnon
b. Tomb of Clytemnestra
c. Thersilion, Megapolis
d. Mausoleum, Helicarnassos
47. Which of the following is true about Egyptian
pyramids and Babylonian ziggurats?
a. Pyramids have square plans, while plans of
ziggurats are rectangular
b. Pyramids are sun-dried bricks faced with
kiln-burnt bricks, while ziggurats use
masonry, huge blocks of stone
c. Both pyramids and ziggurats have square
plans
d. Pyramids are used as temple observatories,
while ziggurats are royal tombs
48. Which construction system permit great spans
of infinite variety of shapes of concrete, or steel
combined with glass or plastic?
a. Frame construction
b. Thin shell construction
c. Space frame
d. Suspension system
49. Designer of Taj Mahal
a. Shah Reza
b. Shah Naser
c. Shah Jahan
d. Shah Jalan
50. What is referred to as written record of mans
effort to build beautifully?
a. History of architecture
b. Pre-historic architecture

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51.

52.

53.

54.

c. Elements of architecture
d. Style of architecture
Which of the following represent the primary
colors?
a. Blue, yellow, violet
b. Red, yellow, green
c. Green, orange, violet
d. Red, yellow, blue
Designer of Bonifacio Monument
a. Felipe Mendoza
b. Tomas Mapua
c. Cesar Concio
d. Juan Nakpil
Most famous and perfect preservation of all
ancient buildings in Rome.
a. Acropolis
b. Parthenon
c. Pantheon
d. Apotheca
On either side of the choir, pulpits for the
reading of the epistle and the gospel are called
a. Cella
b. Cancelli
c. Bema
d. Ambo

55. The dressing room of thermae.

a. Calidarium
b. Apodyteria
c. Unctuaria
d. Sudatorium
56. Forming the imposing entrance to the Acropolis
and erected by the architect Mnesicles is the
a. Pteroma
b. Stoa
c. Propylaea
d. Parthenon
57. The sacred enclosure found in the highest part
of a Greek city is called:
a. Corps de Logis
b. Temenos
c. Pteroma
d. Peribolas
58. Conceptualized the Corinthian capital.
a. Callimachus
b. Bernini
c. Phidias
d. Ptolemy III
59. Architect of the Temple of Zeus, Agrigentum
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60.

61.

62.

63.

64.

a. Libon
b. Mnesicles
c. Cossutius
d. Theron
The characteristic of Greek ornament
a. Antefix
b. Acroterion
c. Anthemion
d. Apotheca
In some churches, there is a part which raised
as part of the sanctuary which later developed
into the transept, this is the
a. Ambo
b. Cella
c. Cancelli
d. Bema
Medieval architecture, which is characterized by
the pointed style, was prevalent in Western
Europe from the 13th to the 15th century. What
do you call this style?
a. Doric
b. Arabesque
c. Gothic
d. Romanesque
Enclosure formed by huge stones planted on
the ground in circular form
a. Menhir
b. Cromlech
c. Dolmen
d. Tumulus
The open court in an Italian palazzo.
a. Prytaneion
b. Tumuli
c. Dipteral
d. Cortel

65. Architect of SM Megamall

a. Jose Siao Ling
b. Antonio Sin Diong
c. Gilbert Yu
d. Jonathan Gan
66. Architect of the Lung Center of the Philippines
a. William Cosculluela
b. Froilan Hong
c. George Ramos
d. Gabriel Formoso
67. Which of the following indicates of a color?
a. Value
b. Intensity

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68.

69.

70.

71.

72.

73.

74.

75.

c. Hue
d. Chroma
A kindred type to the theater
a. Podium
b. Odeion
c. Pinacotheca
d. Epidauros
Which of the following is a contribution of
Byzantine architecture?
a. Use of conical timber roof over domes
b. Use of domes on pendentives
c. Interior peristyle
d. Triumphal arch
What is the difference between Chinese and
Japanese pagodas?
a. Japanese pagodas are mostly four-storeyed;
Chinese are three to seven
b. Chinese pagodas are polygonal; Japanese
are square in plan
c. Japanese pagodas plans are polygonal;
Chinese are square
d. Chinese pagodas are mostly five-storeyed;
Japanese are three to fifteen
The best example of a German Romanesque
church with apses at both east and west
a. Trier Cathedral
b. Tournai Cathedral
c. Mamberg Cathedral
d. Worms Cathedral
Master sculptor of the Parthenon.
a. Ptolemy III
b. Phidias
c. Bernini
d. Callimachus
Architect of the Rizal Memorial Stadium
a. Juan Nakpil
b. Jose Herrera
c. Cesar Concio
d. Tomas Mapua
Architect of Manila Hilton Hotel
a. Welton Becket
b. Inigo Jones
c. Daniel Burnham
d. Erich Mendelson
In modern Muslim mosques, which of the
following features are required to be applied?
a. Minarets and domes
b. Pulpit
c. Niche
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d. All listed items here

83.
76. Marble mosaic pattern used on ceilings of
vaults and domes.
a. Opus Tesselatum
b. Opus Mixtum
c. Opus Quadratum
d. Opus Reticulatum
77. It is the eclectic style of domestic architecture
of the 1870s and the 1880s in England and the
USA and actually based on country house and
cottage Elizabeth architecture which was
characterized by a blending of Tudor Gothic,
English Rennaisance and colonial elements in
the USA:
a. Queen Anne style
b. Jacobean architecture
c. Mannerist Phase
d. Stuart architecture
78. What art principle shows the relationship
between the various parts of an object/
structure/ groups pf objects and structures?
a. Proportion
b. Volume
c. Size
d. Scale
79. Type of plan of the Byzantine churches
a. Cross-type
b. Circular
c. Centralized
d. Rectangular
80. Architect of the famous Propylaea, Acropolis
a. Anthemius
b. Cossutus
c. Mnesicles
d. Isidorus

81. The most beautiful and best preserved of the

Greek theaters
a. Odeion
b. Pinacotheca
c. Podium
d. Epidaurus
82. Usual number of stories for a Chinese pagoda
a. 13
b. 10
c. 12

84.

85.

86.

87.

88.

89.

90.

d. 11
The ornamental pattern work in stone, filling
the upper part of a Gothic window
a. Tracery
b. Cavetto
c. Embrasures
d. Crenel
First president and founder of PAS
a. Cesar Concio
b. Jose Herrera
c. Felipe Mendoza
d. Juan Nakpil
Plan shape of a Chinese pagoda
a. Hexagonal
b. Square
c. Octagonal
d. Rectangular
Plan shape of a Japanese pagoda
a. Triangula
b. Rectangle
c. Round
d. Square
The Greek council house which is covered
meeting place for the democratically-elected
council is called:
a. Thersihon
b. Prytaneion
c. Diathyros
d. Bouleuterion
It is a traditional house that was called
binangiyan. It was single room dwelling
elevated at 1.50 meters from the ground; the
floor were made of hard wool like narra which
rested on 3 floor joist which in turn were
supported by transverse girders.
a. Bontoc
b. Kalinga
c. Kankanay
d. Badjao
Built by the Franciscan priest Fr. Blas dela
Madre, this church in Rizal whose design
depicts the heavy influence in Spanish Baroque,
was declared a national treasure.
a. Antipolo Church
b. Jala-jala Cathedral
c. Angono Bhurch
d. Morong Church
From the Greek temples, a temple that have
porticoes of columns at the front and rear.
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91.

92.

93.

94.

95.

96.

97.

a. Dipteral
b. Amphi-Prostyle
c. Tympanum
d. Astylar
The Grandest Temple of all Egyptian temples, it
was not built by upon one complete plan but
owes it size, disposition and magnificence to the
work of many Kings. Built from the 12th dynasty
to the Ptolemic period.
a. Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
b. Great temple of Ammon, Karnak
c. The great temple of Abu-Simbel
d. Temple of Ramsesseum, Thebes
An upright ornament at the eaves of a tile roof,
concealing the foot of a row of convex tile that
cover the joints of the flat tiles.
a. Apotheca
b. Anthemion
c. Antefix
d. Acroterion
What do you call the long colonnaded building
used around public places and as shelters at
religious shrines in Greek architecture?
a. Stoa
b. Agora
c. Propylaea
d. Peristyle
The fortified high area or citadel of an ancient
Greek city.
a. Apotheca
b. Acropolis
c. Parthenon
d. Pantheon
A style in architecture Italy I the second half of
the 16th century and to a lesser extent
elsewhere in Europe, It uses classical elements
in an unconventional manner.
a. Palladianism
b. Illusionism
c. Abstract
d. Mannerism
Architect of GSIS Building, Roxas Boulevard
a. Gabriel Formoso
b. Froilan Hong
c. Felipe Palafox
d. George Ramos
In an ancient Greece and Rome, a storeroom of
any knid but especially for storing wine.
a. Anthemion

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b. Apotheca
c. Antefix
d. Acroterion
98. A type of Roman wall facing with a net-like
effect
a. Opus Mixtum
b. Opus Quadratum
c. Opus Incertum
d. Opus Reticulatum
99. What historic style of architecture contributed
the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of
architecture?
a. Greek
b. Byzantine
c. Egyptian
d. Early Christian
100. Orientation of the Etruscan temple is
towards the
a. South
b. North
c. East
d. West
1. What is the purpose of the disks found on the
tree trunks where the Ifugao house stands?
Protection against rats
2. His design for the Bauhaus School, Dessau
Germany (1925) was the first example of the
new international style architecture. Walter
Gropius
3. The leader of the Chicago school of architecture
and a pioneer in skyscraper design. The
Auditorium Building, Chicago (1887) was his
first major work together with Dankmar Adler.
Louis Sullivan
4. Hagia Sophia is the finest remaining of
Byzantine Architecture
5. In Mesopotamian architecture, religion called
for temples made of sun-dried bricks known as.
Ziggurats
6. A Gothic Cathedral designed by Master Gerhard
who, thou no doubt German, was thoroughly
conversant with the contemporary French
Gothic. The cathedral was consecrated in 1322,
by which time designs for the west front had
already been prepared. Cologne Cathedral
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7. The first all iron church in Asia. San Sebastian
Church
8. What historic style of architecture contributed
to the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian Orders of
Architecture? Greek
9. Stupa or temples cut in rock formation is a
contribution of what style of architecture.
Indian
10. What invention brought about modern high-rise
building? Elevator
11. A recess in a wall (interior or exterior),
especially for a statue and usually curved at the
back. Niche
12. From what style of architecture were the
Chinese pagodas derived? Indian
13. The traditional Maranao house for the ordinary
members of the community is the Walay
14. What is referred to as the intramuros of the
North which is the third oldest settlement
founded by Spaniards and contains Castillan
houses built in the 16th century. Vigan
15. One of the most controversial architect who
was identified as one of the New York five and
the first who became known for a series of
private houses based on renowned themes of
Le Corbusier. One of his work is the Binondo
Tower in Sta. Cruz, Manila. Michael Graves
16. The dry or sweating room in the thermae.
Sudatorium
17. Greek architecture was essentially. Columnar
trabeated
18. The hot room of the thermae. Calidarium
19. Space between the colonnade and the naos
wall in Greek temple. Pteroma
20. One of the few churches of its type to have
survived having a square nave and without
cross-arms, roofed by a dome which spans to
the outer walls of the building. Nea Moni
21. A roman house with a central patio. Atrium
House
22. Council house in Greece. Bouleuterion
23. A small private bath found in Roman houses or
palaces. Balneum

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24. Space for the clergy and choir is separated by a
low screen wall from teh body of the church
called. Cancelli
25. Finest of Greek Tombs, also known as the
Tomb of Agamemnon. Treasury of Atreus
26. Senate house of the Greeks. Prytaneion
27. Sleeping room of the megaron. Thalamus
28. Architect of the Chicago Tribune Tower. John
Mead Howells and Raymond Hood
29. Smallest cathedral in the world (Byzantine
Period) Little Metropole Cathedral, Athens
30. First school which offered architecture in the
Philippines. Liceo de Manila
31. Architect of Manila Hilton Hotel. Welton Becket
32. Architect of the Pantheon. Agrippa
33. Roman architect of the Greek Temples of Zeus,
Olympia. Cossutius
34. Marble mosaic pattern used on ceilings of
vaults and domes. Opus Tesselatum
35. Architect of the Great Serapeum at Alexandria.
Ptolemy III
36. Most beautiful and best preserved of the Greek
theatres. Epidauros
37. A type of Roman wall facing which is made of
small stone laid in loose pattern roughly
resembling polygonal work. Opus incertum
38. Dominating personality who became an ardent
disciple of the Italian Renaissance style. Inigo
Jones
39. Type of roman wall facing with rectangular
block with or without mortar joints. Opus
Quadratum
40. Architect of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia. Libon
41. Conceptualized the Corinthian Capital.
Callimachus
42. Architect of the Lung Center of the Philippines.
George Ramos
43. Type of roman wall facing with a net-like effect.
Opus Recticulatum
44. Architects of the Hagia Sophia (St. Sophia,
Constantinople). Anthemius and Isidorus
45. He erected the entrance Piazza at St. Peters
Basilica. Bernini
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46. First plan shape of the St. Peters Basilica by
Bramante. Greek Cross
47. Raised stage reserved for the clergy in early
Christian Churches. Bema
48. In some churches, there is a part which is raised
as part of the sanctuary which later developed
into the transept. Bema
49. First president and founder of PAS. Juan Nakpil
50. On either side of the choir, pulpits for the
reading of the epistle and gospel are called.
Ambo
51. The final plan shape of the St. Peters Basilica by
Carlo Maderna. Latin cross
52. Orientation of the Roman temple is towards the
Forum
53. In greek temples, the equivalent of the crypt is
Naos
54. Expressionist architect. Erich Mendelsohn
55. Architect of the Rizal Memorial Stadium. Juan
Nakpil
56. Architect of GSIS Building, Roxas Boulevard.
George Ramos
57. From the greek temples, a temple that has
porticoes of columns at the front and rear.
Amphi-Prostyle
58. Architect of the Batasang Pambansa. Felipe
Mendoza
59. Architect of the National Library, Philippines.
Felipe Mendoza
60. Built by the Franciscan priest Fr. Blas de Madre,
this church in Rizal whose design depcts the
heavy influence of Spanish Baroque, was
declared a national treasure. Morong Church
61. Cubicula or bedroom is from what architecture.
Roman
62. Plan shape of a Chinese pagoda. Octagonal
63. Amphitheaters are used for Gladitorial Contests
64. Triangular piece of wall above the entablature.
Pediment
65. Architecture of the curved line is known as
Baroque
66. How many stained glass are there in the
Chartres Cathedral. 176

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67. Usual number of stories for A Chinese Pagoda.
13
68. 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. Antefix
69. In ancient Greece and Rome, a storeroom of
any kind, but especially for storing wine.
Apotheca
70. Space between the colonnade and naos wall in
Greek temple. Pteroma
71. Open court in an Italian palazzo. Cortel
72. Building in the Acropolis generally considered as
being the most nearly perfect building ever
erected is the Parthenon
73. Fortified high area or citadel of an ancient
Greek city. Acropolis
74. Romanesque architecture in Italy is
distinguished from that of the rest of Europe by
the use of what material for facing walls.
Marble
75. Strictly, a pedestal at the corners or peak of a
roof to support an ornament, more usually, the
ornament itself. Acroterion
76. Filipino architect whose philosophy is the
structure must be well oriented Caesar
Homer Concio
77. Female statues with baskets serving as columns.
Canephora
78. Highest sloped pyramid in Gizeh. Pyramid of
Khufu
79. Architect of TWA airport. Eero Saarinen
80. Compound bracket or capital in Japanese
architecture. Masu-gumi
81. A large apsidal extension of hte interior volume
of a church. Exedra
82. Not among the three pyramids in Gizeh.
Pyramid of Djoser
83. Architect of Iglesia ni Cristo. Carlos Santos
Viola
84. Plan shape of Chinese Pagoda. Octagonal
85. Founder of the Bauhaus School of Art. Walter
Gropius
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86. Decorative niche often topped with a canopy
and housing a statue. Tabernacle
87. Another term for crenel or internal between
merlon of a battlement. Embrasures
88. King Zosers architect who was deified in the
26th dynasty. Imhotep
89. A house is like a flower pot Richard Josef
Neutra
90. Modern architecture need not be western
Kenzo Tange
91. Less is more. Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
92. A house is a house. Louis Kahn
93. Architecture is ht will of an epoch translated
into space. Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
94. Form follows function. Louis Sullivan
95. But the buildings identity resided in the
ornament. Louis Sullivan
96. The city must be subject to growth, decay and
renewal. Kenzo Tange
97. A bridge is like a house. Robert Maillart
98. Architectural-form equals social form. Eliel
Saarinen
99. Each new situation requires a new architecture.
Jean Nouvel
100. Art and architecture, the new unity. Walter
Gropius
101.
Without this spirit, Modernist
architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is
often a mismatch between the logic and the
spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to
reconcile the two. Tadao Ando
102.
Form does not necessarily follow
function. Antonio Gaudi
103.
God is in the details. Ludwig Mies Van
Der Rohe
104.
Architecture is invention. Oscar
Niemeyer
105.
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture
as dealing with separated problems. If we split
life into separated problems we split the
possibilities to make good building art. Alvar
Aalto
106.
Cube within a cube. Le Corbusier

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107.
The house is a machine for living in. Le
Corbusier
108.
Less is a bore. Robert Venturi
109.
Architecture starts when you carefully
put two bricks together. There it begins. Van
der Rohe
110.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and
work, remembering that a noble, logical
diagram once recorded will not die. Daniel
Burnham
111.
Make no little plans; they have no
magic to stir mens blood. Daniel Burnham
112.
Function influence but does not dictate
form. Eero Saarinen
113.
Modern architecture need not to be
western. Kenzo Tange
114.
All architects want to live beyond their
deaths. Philip Johnson
115.
Architecture must meet three
requirements: strength, beauty and utility.
Marcus Vitruvius Polio
116.
Every great architect is necessary a
great poet. He must be a great original
interpreter of his time, his day, his age. Frank
Lloyd Wright
117.
Forms accommodate function. Robert
Venturi
118.
It is better to be good than to be
original. Mies van der Rohe
119.
Architecture or revolution. Le Corbusier
120.
Architecture is organic. Frank Lloyd
Wright
121.
All fine architectural values are human
values, else not valuable. Frank Lloyd Wright
122.
The longer I live the more beautiful life
becomes... FLW
123.
Think simple as my old master used
to say meaning reduce the whole of its parts
into hte simplest terms, getting back to first
principles. FLW
124.
An idea is salvation by imagination. FLW
125.
Mother art is architecture. FLW
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126.
Architecture arouses sentiments in
man. Adolf Loos
127.
We should concentrate our work not
only to a separated housing problem but
housing involved in our daily work and all other
functions. Alvar Aalto
128.
When you look at Japanese traditional
architecture, you have to look at Japanese
culture and its relationship with nature. Tadao
Ando
129.
Nothing requires the architects care
more than the due proportions of the building.
Vitruvius
130.
Color in certain places has the great
value of making the outlines and structural
planes seem more energetic. Antonio Gaudi
131.
The work of art shows people new
directions and thinks of the future. The house
thinks of the present. Adolf Loos
132.
Architects today tend to depreciate
themselves, to regard themselves as no more
than just ordinary citizens without the power to
reform the future. Kenzo Tange
133.
I dont believe in morality in
architecture. Michael Graves
134.
It seems fantastic paradox, but it is
nevertheless a most important truth, that no
architecture can be truly noble which is not
imperfect. John Ruskin
135.
Organic architecture seeks superior
sense of use and a finer sense of comfort
expressed in organic simplicity. FLW
136.
Maybe we can show government how
to operate better as a result of better
architecture. FLW
137.
Noble life demands a noble architecture
for noble uses of noble men. FLW
138.
Consider the momentous event in
architecture when the wall parted and the
column became. Louis Kahn
139.
To create architecture is to put in order.
Put what in order? Function and objects. Le
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140.
Architecture will always express the
technical and social progress of the country in
which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the
human content that it lacks, we must
participate in the political struggle. Oscar
Niemeyer
141.
I would like my architecture to inspire
people to use their own resources, to move into
the future. Tadao Ando
142.
Look, architecture has a lot of places to
hide behind, a lot of excuses. the client made
me do this. The city made me do this Oh, the
budget. I dont believe that anymore. Frank
Gehry
143.
The speed of change makes you wonder
what will become of architecture. Tadao Ando
144.
Every time a student walks past a really
urgent, expressive piece of architecture that
belongs to his college, it can help reassure him
that he does have that mind, does have that
soul. Louis Kahn
145.
All those involved in the construction of
an architectural design, from the architect to
the builder, have an attachment to the
architecture, although its difficult to quantify
the attachment. Tadao Ando
146.
Architecture is a science arising out of
many other sciences, and adorned with much
and varied learning; by the help of which a
judgment is formed of those works which are
the result of other arts. Vitruvius
147.
Does it follow that the house has
nothing in common with art and is architecture
not to be included in the arts? Only a very small
part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb
and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a
function is to be excluded from the domain of
art. Adolf Loos
148.
I like to play with architecture! Its my
favourite game. Jean Nouvel
149.
I think architecture has to be a gift. Jean
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150.
There is powerful need for symbolism,
and that means the architecture must have
something that appeals to the human heart.
Kenzo Tange

1) "Function influence but does not dictate form"

B. EERO SAARINEN
2. "Architectural-form equals social-form"
C. ELIEL SAARINEN
3. "Form does not necessarily follow function"
A. ANTONIO GAUNDI
4. "Form follows function"
A. Frank Lloyd Wright
B. Antonio Gaudi
C. Eliel Saarinen
D. NONE
5. Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be
rejected
C. ADOLF LOOS
6. "Form and Function is One"
D. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
7. Art and Architecture, the new UNITY
B. WALTER GROPIUS
8. "Architecture is the reaching out for the truth"
B. LOUIS KAHN
9. "A house is a house"
C. LOUIS KHAN
10. "Cube within a cube"
C. LE CORBUSIER
11. Created the dymaxion house,the first machine for
living?
C. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
12. "The house is a machine for living in"
B. LE CORBUSIER
13. "A bridge is like a house"
C. ROBERT MAILLART
14. "Less is more"
C. LUDWIG MIES VAN DE ROHE
15. "Less is a bore"
A. ROBERT VENTURI
16. "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir
men's blood"
D. DANIEL BURNHAM
17. "Form follows function"
D. LOUIS SULLIVAN
18. "Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into
space"
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19. "Architecture starts when you carefully put two
bricks together. There it begins"
A. LUDWIG MIES VAN DE ROHE
20. "Make big plans; aim high in hope and work,
remembering that a noble, logical diagram once
recorded will not die"
B. DANIEL BURNHAM
21. Modern architecture "need not" to be Western.
B. KENZO TANGE
22."You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with
these materials you build house and palaces. That is
construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly, you
touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say:
'This is beautiful". That is architecture. Art enters in.
B. Le corbusier
23. "All architects want to live beyond their deaths"
B. PHILIP JOHNSON
24. "Architecture must meet 3 requirements: strength,
beauty, and unity"
D. MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLIO
25. "Every great architect is- necessarily - a great poet.
He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his
day, his age"
A. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
26. The Architect who is known to be the "Father of
Fantastic Architecture"
B. ANTONIO GAUDI
27. He was a Japanese Architect, and a winner of the
1987 Pritzker Prize for Architecture and is one of the
most significant architects of the 20th century.
B. MODERN ARCHITECTURE NEED NOT TO BE
WESTERN
28 " I believe that people make natural association with
forms, color and the composition of elements while
decoration and detailing help communicate with
buildings purpose".
B. WALTER GROPIUS
29. "Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois"
B. LE CORBUSIER
30. This Architect was inspired in his early stage from
this famous Swiss Architect known for his works such as
Unite Habitation'
A. LUDWIG MIES VAN DE ROHE
30. Architect who advocated the organic architecture
and envisioned the Broadacre city for the future?
A. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
31. Design as if you were a child - famous axiom by?
B. MICHAEL GRAVES
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Q.1) Which of the following is a contribution of byzantine

architecture?
A. Use of domes on pendetives (answer)
B. Use of conical timber roof over domes
C. Triumphal arch
D. Interior peristyle
Q.2) From what style of architecture were the
Chinese pagodas derived?
A. Muslim
B. Indian (answer)
C. Japanese
D. European
Q.3)

3.
Roof garden
4.
Open planning
5.
Cube form elevated on stilts or columns
were adopted by Le Corbusier in his Villa Savoye
A. 2, 4, 5
B. 3, 4, 5
C. 1, 2, 3
D. All listed principles (answer)
Q.5) With regards to relationship of structure to
architecture, which of the following describes
formal or sculptured structure?
A. Uses least amount of material
B. Focuses on novelty of form
C. Materials used below maximum load-bearing
capacity
D. Exaggerated elements (answer)
Q.6) Which of the following is a major contribution of
Early Christian architecture?
A. Column and lintel
B. Exterior peristyle
C. Basilican type of cruciform plan (correct answer)
D. Corbelled arch
Q.7) What do you call the long colonnaded building
used around public places and as shelters at
religious shrines in Greek architecture?
A. Propylae
B. Stoa (answer)
C. Peristyle
D. Agora

Mies van der Rohe first envisioned the all-glass

skyscraper in the 1920s. A true genius, he
designed a structure that could not be built at that
time, but some thirty years later the technology
was at hand. The long-held dream of the crystalline
tower was finally realized in these famous building,
38 stories of black steel and glass.
A. Lever House
B. Seagram Building (answer)
C. Lakeshore Drive Apartment
D. S.R. Crown Hall
Q.4) Which of the following principles:
1.
Frameworks structurally independent
walls
2.
Free-standing faade

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Q.8) Which of the following is true about Egyptian

pyramids and Babylonian ziggurats?
A. Pyramids are used as temple observatories,
while ziggurats are royal tombs
B. Pyramids are sun-dried bricks faced with kilnburnt bricks, while ziggurats use masonry, huge
blocks of stone
C. Pyramids have square plans, while plans of
ziggurats are rectangular (answer)
D. Both pyramids and ziggurats have square plans
Q.9) What is the difference between Chinese and
Japanese pagodas?
A. Chinese pagodas are polygonal; Japanese are
square in plan (answer)
B. Chinese pagodas are mostly five-storeyed;
Japanese are three to fifteen
C. Japanese pagodas plans are polygonal;
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D. Japanese pagodas are mostly four-storeyed;

Chinese are three to seven
Q.10) Which of the following represent the primary
colors?
A. Green, orange, violet
B. Red, yellow, green
C. Blue, yellow, violet
D. Red, yellow, blue (answer)
Q.11) What art principle shows the relationships
between the various parts of an
object/structure/groups of objects and structures?
A. Size
B. Volume
C. Proportion (answer)
D. Scale

D. China (your answer)

Q.16) Which construction system permit great spans of
infinite variety of shapes of concrete, or steel
combined with glass or plastic?
A. Space frame (correct answer)
B. Thin shell construction
C. Frame construction (your answer)
D. Suspension system
Q.17) In modern Muslim mosques, which of the
following features are required to be applied?
A. Niche
B. Pulpit
C. Minarets and domes
D. All listed items (your answer)
Q.18)

Q.12) What historic style of architecture contributed the

Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian Orders of
Architecture?
A. Early Christian
B. Byzantine
C. Greek (your answer)
D. Egyptian
Q.13) What do you call the tool in architecture which
organizes space or spatial composition related to
function?
A. Space planning (your answer)
B. Space articulation
C. Functional interrelationship diagram (correct
answer)
D. Territoriality
Q.14) What manifestation in a structure that identifies it
as a work of architecture shows the adequate
scheme or structural arrangement, effective
choice of materials, and effective construction
system?
A. Structural stability (your answer)
B. Aesthetic sense of beauty
C. Economic quality
D. Utility

What type of architectural character is derived through the

A. Personality (your answer)
B. Function (correct answer)
C. Association
D. Materials

Q.19) The Arabesque surface ornamentation

originated from what style of architecture
A. Muslim (your answer)
B. Chinese
C. Japanese
D. Thai
Q.20) What is the principal type of building in Muslim
Architecture?
A. Mosque (your answer)
B. Mausoleum
C. Temple
D. Church
Q.21) Which historic style of architecture first introduced
the clerestory?
A. Egyptian (correct answer)
B. Roman (your answer)
C. Greek
D. West Asiatic

Q.15) Toranas or gateways are characteristic feature of

what style of architecture?
A. Japanese
B. Indian (correct answer)
C. Filipino

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