DAY 1 - AM (HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE)

The columns at the Great Hypostyle Hall of Temple of Amun in Karnak were built taller than the rest, why?

• To direct people to the inner parts of the temple

• To carry the heavy slab

• To let in subdued light into the temple

• For ceremonial purposes

When the dome and the pendentives are part of the same sphere, the dome is classified as ____.

• Acute

• Simple

• Double

• Complex

One of the most important architecture of the Early Victorian period and designed by Sir Joseph Paxton.

• Art deco

• Eiffel tower

• Library of St. Genevieve, Paris

• Crystal palace

Church plan of the Romanesque Church _____.

• Greek

• Fleur de lis

• Papal cross

• Latin cross

The space for clergy and choir is separated by a low screen wall called _____.

• Nave

• Podium

• Ambo

• Ciborium

The architect of the AEG Turbine Factory, Berlin.

• Max Berg

• Gunther Bernisch

• Walter Gropius

• Peter Behrens

Spanish Gothic interiors are characterized by the use of ____.

• Iconostas

• Tore

• Rajas

• Piedra china

Style fashionable in the 1920s and 1930s in industrial design, interior design and architecture. One of the best known building in this style is the Chrysler Building in New York City.

• Jugendstil

• Functionalism

• High Tech

• Art Deco

In 1903, architects Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin were tasked to translate Ebenezer Howard’s Idea of a Garden City. This project known as the First Garden City is located approximately 35 miles from London. It is also called as_______.

• Welwyn Garden City

• Howard’s Garden City

• Letchworth Garden City

• Greenbelt Garden City

It is a term used to describe the work of those architects who prefigured the International and Fucntionalist Period of the Modern Movement. It is the outward manifestation of a design through an individual articulation.

• Organic

• Eclectic

• Expressionism

• Deconstructivism