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Through gothic centuries the English style that is closest to French style is
a. Flamboyant
b. Decorated
c. Lancet
d. None
a. Casa mila
b. Casa batllo
c. Casa Milano
d. Sagrada familia spires
10. Romanesque architecture in italy is distinguished from that of the rest of Europe by the
use of ___for facing walls?
a. Bricks
b. Marble
c. Mosaic
d. Granite
11. Mineral of greatest importance to greek architecture of w/c Greece and her domains had
ample of supplies?
a. Pozzolana
b. Marble
c. Clay
d. Granite
12. One of Frank Lloyd Wright's organic architecture?
a. Falling water
b. Robbie house
c. Dulles airport
d. Petronas tower
13. Largest medieval cathedral in Europe, w/ exception of s. peter's rome. The largest church
in the world?
a. Westminster abbey
b. Seville cathedral
c. Sagrada familia
d. Notre dame
14. Who invented a system of well-high universal application based on hyperboloids and
paraboloids in bldgs?
a. Frank ghery
b. Santiago calatrava
c. Zaha hadid
d. Antoni gaudi
15. Renaissance of 15th century in italy had its birth in?
a. Venice
b. Florence
c. Rome
d. Spain
16. Egyptian architecture was principally designed for?
a. External adoration
b. Light and color
c. Internal effect
d. Life after death
17. Gutter in modern times is like a?
a. Frieze
b. Pediment
c. Girt
d. Cornice
18. Architect who designed and advocated the geodesic dome for cities of tomorrow was?
a. Mies van der rohe
b. Le Corbusier
c. Buckminster fuller
d. Louis kahn
19. What do you call the recess found in the dome to make the structure lighter?
a. Oculus
b. Coffers
c. Pendentive
d. Podium
20. Systyle intercolumnation?
a. 1.5 x cd
b. 2.5 x cd
c. 2 x cd
d. 3-4 x cd
21. In Mesopotamian arch., religion called for temples made of sun dried bricks is?
a. Megarons
b. Thakamus
c. Ziggurats
d. None
22. Temple w/ circular plan supporting a dome of about 140 ft in diam. & described by
Thomas Jefferson as model of spherical arch is?
a. St. peter basilica
b.