Task 5

1. Frank O.Gehry is considered to be one of the proponents of ................

• high cost technology

• informational technology

• improverished technology

2. He advocates the use of low cost, industrially manufactured ….......

• materials

• goods

• skyscrapers

3. Pritzker Architecture Prize was the most prestigious award for architectural achievement presented to a living architect.

• accomplishment

• failure

• result

4. The building’s unusual morphology and atypical typology and the surprising materials choosen by Frank O.Gehery reflected the customer’s more concern about the cultural, aesthetic and pragmatic aspects of the process of habitation than by any mindless submission to conventional mores

• emotional

• rational

• practical

5. The site seclection of Schnabel Residence in Brentwood was not based on any remarkable ............... features.

• climatic

• cultural

• topographic

6. At one end of Schnabel Residence in Brentwood, the roughly rectangular site terminates in an irregular ................. area where the slope was cut back to form a lower, more private terrace.

• quadrangular

• trapezoidal

• pentagonal

7. The kitchen of Schnabel Residence in Brentwood is situated on the ground floor of this rectangular structure (closely connected to the main dining room), and at the center there is a double-height …………. family room.

• solar energy

• candle-lit

• sky-lit

8. This block has been finished on the outside with a simple gray stucco used to create an intentional visual ………. which contrasts with the artificiality of the lead finish on the adjacent block.

• complexity

• austerity

• modernity

9. Gehry has designed an ………...supported by pillars clad in natural copper, which crosses the garden to link this building to a door into the kitchen.

• roof

• corridor

• arcade