History and Theory 03

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Your ReportWrong 85% answered this correctly. 15% answered wrong Q.1) Which of the following describes frame construction as a structural system? A. Use of upright post B. Spanned by horizontal C. Result in cage-like arrangement of parts through repetition (your answer) D. All listed items (correct answer)Wrong 66% answered this correctly. 34% answered wrong Q.2) Who is the architect of Central Bank of the Phils. in Harrison? A. Ruperto Gaite (your answer) B. Gabriel Formoso (correct answer) C. Crecenciano de Castro D. Felipe MendozaWrong 57% answered this correctly. 43% answered wrong Q.3) In the given figure, identify the crepidoma A. No. 4 B. No.5 C. No. 6 (your answer) D. No. 7 (correct answer)Correct 82% answered this correctly. 18% answered wrong Q.4) Who is the architect of the Opera House who won the competition for the design of a performing arts complex in Sydney, Australia in 1957 A. Howard Upton B. Peter Hall

C. Howard Hoban D. Jorn Utzon (your answer)Wrong 52% answered this correctly. 48% answered wrong Q.5) Who is noted architect, who without formal architecture training, became famous for his architecture which is austerely dependent on the naked metal skeleton? A. Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe (correct answer) B. Frank Lloyd Wright C. Peter Behrens (your answer) D. Walter GropiusWrong 59% answered this correctly. 41% answered wrong Q.6) Whose famous dictum/philosophy is this: The city must be subject to growth, decay and renewal. A. Kenzo Tange (correct answer) B. Le Corbusier C. Minoru Yamasaki (your answer) D. Frank Lloyd WrightCorrect 59% answered this correctly. 41% answered wrong Q.7) To whom is the folded slab technique attributed as contribution to international architecture? A. Auguste perret B. Eugene Freysinnet (your answer) C. Buckminister Fuller D. Sydney FressinetWrong 27% answered this correctly. 73% answered wrong Q.8) It is known as the architecture of the curve line A. Roman B. Art Nouveau C. Renaissance (correct answer) D. Baroque (your answer)Wrong 55% answered this correctly. 45% answered wrong Q.9) Who popularize “thin shell” structures? A. Felix Candela (correct answer) B. Walter Gropius

C. Alvar Aalto (your answer) D. Robert maillartCorrect 72% answered this correctly. 28% answered wrong Q.10) Who is the architect of the US Pavilion in the 1967 Montreal Exposition and introduced the geodesic dome? A. Minoru Yamasaki B. I.M. Pei C. Buckminster Fuller (your answer) D. Edward Durell StoneWrong 72% answered this correctly. 28% answered wrong Q.11)In perception of space, which of the following describes visual sense? A. Identifies materials limiting unpleasant odors B. Affects materials to regulate transfer of sound C. Affects room size/ceiling heights to avoid discomfort (your answer) D. Identifies materials at a distance (correct answer)Correct 62% answered this correctly. 38% answered wrong Q.12)In perception of space, which of the following describes the olfactory sense? A. Identifies materials limiting unpleasant odors (your answer) B. Affects material to regulate transfer of sound C. Affects room size/ceiling heights to avoid discomfort D. Identifies material at a distanceCorrect 45% answered this correctly. 55% answered wrong Q.13) In the given figure, identify the pediment A. No. 1 (your answer) B. No. 2 C. No. 8 D. No. 9Correct 52% answered this correctly. 48% answered wrong Q.14) In the given figure, identify the echinus A. No.15

B. No. 16 (your answer) C. No. 17 D. No. 18Correct 81% answered this correctly. 19% answered wrong Q.15) The founder of Bauhaus was A. Mies van de Rohe B. Eero Saarinen C. Le Corbusier D. Walter Gropius (your answer)Correct 52% answered this correctly. 48% answered wrong Q.16) In the given figure, identify the abacus A. No.15 (your answer) B. No.16 C. No. 17 D. No. 18Correct 32% answered this correctly. 68% answered wrong Q.17) In the given figure, identify the regula A. No.10 B. No. 12 C. No. 13 D. No.14 (your answer)Wrong 54% answered this correctly. 46% answered wrong Q.18) In the given figure, identify the frieze A. No. 1 B. No. 2 C. No. 3 (correct answer) D. No. 4 (your answer)Wrong 45% answered this correctly. 55% answered wrong Q.19) Who is the architect of the Development Bank of the Philippines? A. Otillo Arellano B. Carlos Arguelles (correct answer) C. Juan Nakpil (your answer)

D. Cesar H. ConcioCorrect 46% answered this correctly. 54% answered wrong Q.20) In the given figure, identify the architrave A. No. 1 B. No. 2 C. No. 3 D. No. 4 (your answer)Correct 55% answered this correctly. 45% answered wrong Q.21) To whom are pilotis (use of pillars) and industrialized units attributed as a contribution to international architecture? A. Buckminister Fuller B. Le Corbusier (your answer) C. Pier Luigi Nervi D. Mies Van Der RoheWrong 69% answered this correctly. 31% answered wrong Q.22) St. Peter’s Basilica’s original plan in the form of a Greek cross was designed by A. Michaelangelo B. Michaelozo C. Bernini (your answer) D. Bramante (correct answer)Correct 83% answered this correctly. 17% answered wrong Q.23) Which of the following indicates trabeated style? A. Pointed arch B. Post and lintel (your answer) C. Mortar joints D. Bended jointsWrong 50% answered this correctly. 50% answered wrong Q.24) e order much used by the Romans for its showiness was the A. Doric Order B. Corinthian Order (correct answer) C. Ionic Order D. Composite Order (your answer)

Wrong 58% answered this correctly. 42% answered wrong Q.25) In the given figure, identify the acroterion. A. No. 2 B. No. 8 (correct answer) C. No. 9 (your answer) D. No.10Wrong 52% answered this correctly. 48% answered wrong Q.26) Who invented a system of well-high universal application based on hyperboloids in buildings? A. Adolf Loss (correct answer) B. Peter Behrens C. Philip Johnson D. Antonio Gaudi (your answer)Correct 80% answered this correctly. 20% answered wrong Q.27)What type of architectural elements provide protection for users from inclement of the seasons or enemies? A. Decorative B. Protective (your answer) C. Structural D. Need-specificCorrect 68% answered this correctly. 32% answered wrong Q.28)What theory of architecture denotes not only the complete harmony of the parts of the building with the whole, but on integration of the building with its site and surroundings? A. Functional architecture B. Organic architecture (your answer) C. Domestic architecture D. vernacular architectureWrong 48% answered this correctly. 52% answered wrong Q.29) Whose famous axiom is this? Less is a bore. A. Michael Graves (correct answer) B. Louis Khan

C. Paul Rudolf D. Philip Johnson (your answer)Wrong 54% answered this correctly. 46% answered wrong Q.30)Who invented a system of well-high universal application based on hyperboloids in buildings? A. Adolf Loss (correct answer) B. Peter Behrens (your answer) C. Philip Johnson D. Antonio GaudiCorrect 52% answered this correctly. 48% answered wrong Q.31) In the given figure, identify the metope A. No. 10 B. No. 11 (your answer) C. No. 22 D. No. 23Correct 81% answered this correctly. 19% answered wrong Q.32) Whose philosophy is this: Form follows function. A. Louis Sullivan (your answer) B. Le Corbusier C. Adolf Loos D. Antonio GaudiCorrect 73% answered this correctly. 27% answered wrong Q.33) What is referred to as a Chinese geomancy originally called” under the canopy of heaven”? A. si chi B. ba-gua C. sheng chi D. feng shui (your answer)Wrong 51% answered this correctly. 49% answered wrong Q.34) To whom is the architect who introduced the “ferro-cement” construction? A. Pier Ligi Nervi (correct answer) B. Jacopo Palladius (your answer) C. Peter Behrens

D. Louis KhanWrong 55% answered this correctly. 45% answered wrong Q.35) Whose philosophy is this: Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected? A. Philip Johnson (your answer) B. Le Corbusier C. Adolf Loos (correct answer) D. Antonio GaudiWrong 65% answered this correctly. 35% answered wrong Q.36) Who is the architect of the Manila City Hall? A. Arcadio Arellano B. Juan Arellano C. Tomas Argueles (your answer) D. Antonio Toledo (correct answer)Correct 90% answered this correctly. 10% answered wrong Q.37) What invention brought about modern high-rise building? A. Elevator (your answer) B. Steel beam C. Curtain wall system D. Thin shell constructionWrong 49% answered this correctly. 51% answered wrong Q.38) In the given figure, identify the tympanum A. No. 2 B. No. 8 C. No. 9 (correct answer) D. No. 10 (your answer)Wrong 49% answered this correctly. 51% answered wrong Q.39) Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel is a famous example of what style of architecture? A. Expressionism (your answer) B. Baroque C. Brutalism (correct answer) D. ConstructivismCorrect 88% answered this correctly. 12% answered wrong

Q.40)What type of balance is that in which the elements are arranged in the same manner on either side of a central axis or line and gives the feeling of repose and order? A. Equal B. Contrasting C. Symmetrical (your answer) D. Assymetrical

Q.1) What do you call the gateways which is a feature of Chinese architecture and erected only by government permission as memorial to deceased persons of distinction?

A. Pagoda

B. Gazebo

C. Temple

D. Pai-lous (your answer)

Correct 87% answered this correctly. 13% answered wrong

Q.2) Which of the following describes frame construction as a structural system? A. Use of upright post B. Spanned by horizontal C. Result in cage-like arrangement of parts through repetition D. All listed items (your answer)

Wrong 79% answered this correctly. 21% answered wrong

Q.3) Who is the architect of Robinson’s Galleria?

A. Philip Recto

B. William Coscolluela (correct answer)

C. Ruperto Gaite (your answer)

D. Manuel Go


Q.4) What type of distance is that which is normal spacing separating members of non-contact

species like a protective bubble? A. Social distance (your answer) B. Flight distance C. Critical distance D. Personal distance


Q.5) The first all-iron church in Asia is

A. Taal Church

B. San Agustin Church

C. San Sebastian Church (your answer)

D. Betis Church


Q.6) What is the Spanish term for a lantern or raised structure above a roof through which light

is admitted into the interior? A. Claustra B. Cloister (your answer) C. Cimborio (correct answer) D. Conoid


Q.7) What is referred to as the origin of architecture?

A. Practical usefulness of space

B. System of ornamentation or decoration

C. Expression of structural systems

D. Protection from inclemency of the seasons (your answer)


Q.8) Which of the following is a major contribution of renaissance architecture? A. Baroque form of ornamentation (your answer) B. Pointed arch C. Ribbed vaulting D. Arcades


Q.9) Historically, where did the first development of architecture took place?

A. Valley of the Nile

B. Mesopotamia (your answer)

C. China

D. Persia


Q.10) What do you call those hues, which lie opposite each other in a color wheel? A. Contrasting (your answer) B. Analogous C. Non-complementary D. Complementary (correct answer)


Q.11) Which of the following describes the “ato” in a Bontoc village?

A. Place for religious ceremonies

B. Place for social/political decisions by elders

C. Sleeping quarters for young bachelors (your answer)

D. All listed items (correct answer)


Q.12) What do you call a type of window which is in a sloping roof and usually that of a

sleeping apartment? A. Rose window B. Oriel C. Clerestory D. Dormer (your answer)


Q.13) The largest mediaeval cathedral in Europe, and with the exception of S. Peter’s Rome, the largest church in the world is

A. Westminster Abbey

B. Seville Cathedral (your answer)

C. Notre Dame Cathedral

D. Reims Cathedral


Q.14) Brahman architecture as shown is square plan with spire-shaped roof on “sikhara”;

repetitious “sikharis” and thousand figures on the temple is a characteristic feature of what style of architecture?

A. Filipino B. Chinese C. Japanese D. Indian (your answer)


Q.15) Throughout the history of human race, what is considered the mother of all arts?

A. Fine arts

B. Music

C. Painting

D. Architecture (your answer)


Q.16) One of the world’s supreme masterpieces of Romanesque architecture which was the first

building inEurope to have ribbed vaults throughout is A. Winchester Cathedral (your answer) B. Norwich Cathedral C. Durham Cathedral (correct answer) D. Charters Cathedral


Q.17) The temple with a circular plan supporting a dome of about 140 feet in diameter and described by Thomas Jefferson as the model of Spherical Architecture is the

A. St. Peter’s Basilica

B. Pantheon (correct answer)

C. Hagia Sophia

D. Notre Dame Cathedral (your answer)


Q.18) What important event changed architecture to what is termed as “modern”? A. Renaissance B. Discovery of concrete C. Metallurgy D. Industrial revolution (your answer)


Q.19) Stupa or temples cut in rock information is a contribution of what style of architecture?

A. Islamic

B. Chinese

C. Filipino

D. Indian (your answer)


Q.20) What type of architectural character is derived through the influence of tradition or past

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


Q.21) In Greek architecture, what is referred to as a wrestling school interchangeably used with gymnasium or a place for various kinds of physical exercises?

A. Propylae

B. Agora

C. Palaestra (your answer)

D. Bouleterion


Q.22) In terms of constructive principles, what is considered the Gothic style of architecture? A. Monumental (your answer) B. Trabeated C. Composite D. Arcuated (correct answer)


Q.23) What invention brought about modern high-rise building?

A. Elevator (your answer)

B. Steel beam

C. Curtain wall system

D. Thin shell construction


Q.24) Which of the following indicates trabeated style? A. Pointed arch B. Post and lintel (your answer) C. Mortar joints D. Bended joints


Q.25) What is the purpose of the disks found on the tree trunks where the Ifugao house stands?

A. Weeding-out evil spirits

B. Protection against rat’s (your answer)

C. Structural purpose

D. Decoration/ornamentation


Q.26) A niche in the mosque on any Muslim religious building indicating direction of prayer toward Mecca?

A. Mihrab (your answer) B. Minaret C. Metope D. Muqarnas


Q.27) On what aspect was Egyptian architecture specifically based?

A. Social conditions (your answer)

B. Security

C. Religion (correct answer)

D. Climate


Q.28) Which of the following represent the secondary colors? A. Yellow, green, blue B. Green, orange, violet (your answer) C. Red, yellow, blue D. Green, yellow, violet


Q.29) Blue-green, red-orange, and blue violet belongs to which group of hues or colors?

A. Tertiary (your answer)

B. Secondary

C. Quarterly

D. Primary


Q.30) In perception of space, which sense enables one to identify materials at a distance A. Kinesthetic B. Auditory C. Visual (correct answer) D. Tactile (your answer)

Q.1) Mediaeval 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. Romanesque B. Arabesque (your answer) C. Doric D. Gothic (correct answer)


Q.2) 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 kiln-burnt bricks, while ziggurats use masonry, huge blocks of stone

C. Pyramids have square plans, while plans of ziggurats are rectangular (correct answer) D. Both pyramids and ziggurats have square plans (your answer)


Q.3) 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. Agora (your answer) B. Tenemos C. Stoa D. Propylae


Q.4) What is the principal type of building in Muslim Architecture? A. Mosque (your answer) B. Mausoleum C. Temple D. Church


Q.5) 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.6) Which of the following principles:

1. Frameworks structurally independent of walls2. Free-standing façade

3. Roof garden4. Open planning5. Cube form elevated on stilts or columnswere adopted by Le Corbusier in his Villa Savoye

A. 2, 4, 5 B. 3, 4, 5 (your answer) C. 1, 2, 3 D. All listed principles (correct answer)


Q.7) Toranas or gateways are characteristic feature of what style of architecture? A. Japanese B. Indian (your answer) C. Filipino D. China


Q.8) 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 (your answer) D. Corbelled arch


Q.9) What is referred to as written record of man’s effort to build beautifully? A. Pre-historic architecture B. History of architecture (your answer) C. Elements of architecture D. Style of architecture


Q.10) 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 (your answer) C. Peristyle D. Agora


Q.11) Buddhist architecture shown in rock-cut temples with lavishly carved interiors is a characteristic feature of what style of architecture?

A. Japanese B. Filipino C. Indian (your answer) D. Chinese


Q.12)

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 (your answer) C. Lakeshore Drive Apartment D. S.R. Crown Hall


Q.13) 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.14) From what style of architecture were theChinese pagodas derived? A. Muslim B. Indian (your answer) C. Japanese D. European


Q.15) Which historic style of architecture first introduced the clerestory? A. Egyptian (correct answer) B. Roman (your answer) C. Greek D. West Asiatic


Q.16) What is the difference between Chinese and Japanese pagodas? A. Chinese pagodas are polygonal; Japanese are square in plan(your answer) B. Chinese pagodas are mostly five-storeyed; Japanese are three to fifteen C. Japanese pagodas plans are polygonal; Chinese are square D. Japanese pagodas are mostly four-storeyed; Chinese are three to seven


Q.17) Which of the following is a contribution of byzantine architecture? A. Use of domes on pendetives (correct answer) B. Use of conical timber roof over domes C. Triumphal arch (your answer) D. Interior peristyle


Q.18) What type of architectural character is derived through the use of the building? A. Personality B. Function (correct answer) C. Association (your answer) D. Materials


Q.19) Which of the following indicates the brightness of a color? A. Chroma B. Value C. Hue D. Intensity (your answer)


Q.20) Which of the following indicates the name of a color? A. Intensity B. Chroma C. Hue (correct answer) D. Value (your answer)


Q.21) Which construction system permit great spans of infinite variety of shapes of concrete, or steel combined with glass or plastic?

A. Space frame (your answer) B. Thin shell construction C. Frame construction D. Suspension system


Q.22) 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


Q.23) 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 (your answer) D. Scale


Q.24) Due to generally rainless and bright sunshine climate, which of the following

describe Egyptian structures? A. Steep roofs B. Large openings C. Small openings (correct answer) D. Absence of open court (your answer)


Q.25) The “Arabesque” surface ornamentation originated from what style of architecture

A. Muslim (your answer) B. Chinese C. Japanese D. Thai


Q.26) In modern Muslim mosques, which of the following features are required to be

applied? A. Niche B. Pulpit C. Minarets and domes (your answer) D. All listed items (correct answer)


Q.27) What do you call the enclosed space at the top of a ziggurat in Mesopotamia? A. God’s house (your answer) B. Observatory C. Priest house D. Altar (correct answer)


Q.28) 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 (your answer) D. Exaggerated elements (correct answer)


Q.29) In Indian, architecture, which of the following is not a characteristic feature? A. Stupa (your answer) B. Horseshoe arch C. Pointed arch (correct answer) D. “sikhara”


Q.30) Which of the following represent the primary colors? A. Green, orange, violet B. Red, yellow, green C. Blue, yellow, violet D. Red, yellow, blue (your answer)

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