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WorksheetsTheory of Architecture
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His treatise The Four Books of Architecture made him one of the most influential figures in Western architecture.
Sebastiano Serilio
Leon Battista Alberti
Andrea Palladio
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
It contains Palladio's own designs celebrating the purity and simplicity of classical architecture.
The Four Books of Architecture
Canon of the Five Orders of Architecture
Two Rules of Practical Perspective
Complete Works on Architecture and Perspective
He introduced of ancient Roman architecture in France and pioneered the use of high-quality illustrations to supplement the text.
Andrea Palladio
Sebastiano Serilio
Leon Battista Alberti
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
His two published books helped formulate the canon of classical architectural style.
Andrea Palladio
Leon Battista Alberti
Giacomo Barocci Da Vignola
Sebastiano Serilio
First architectural handbook that emphasized the practical rather than the theoretical aspects of architecture.
Canon of the Five Orders of Architecture
Ten Books of Architecture
Complete Works on Architecture and Perspective
The Four Books of Architecture
He was the prototype of the Renaissance "Universal Man"
Giacomo Barocci Da Vignola
Sebastiano Serilio
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Leon Battista Alberti
What book written by Alberti stated that a great structure must be stable/useful, aesthetically pleasing, and decorated well, and each element must work with the others to create a consistent and unified whole?
De Pictura
Two Rules of Practical Perspective
Ten Books of Architecture
De Re Aedificatoria
Declares the importance of painting as a base for Architecture.
De Re Aedificatoria
De Pictura
De Architectura
Known for the Vitruvian Rule of Aesthetic
Sebastiano Serilio
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Giacomo Barocci Da Vignola
Leon Battista Alberti
It differentiates the intellectual from the practical knowledge in architectural education, but it has come to signify the total basis for judging the merits of buildings or building projects.
Complete Works on Architecture and Perspective
Ten Books of Architecture
Theories of Architecture
Two Rules of Practical Perspective
Father of Landscape Architecture.
Daniel Burnham
Ebenezer Howard
Frederick Law Olmstead
I.P. Santos
Father of Philippine Landscape and Architecture.
Juan Nakpil
I.P. Santos
Federico Illustre
Cesar Concio
It is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes.
Softscape
Urban Planning
Tropical Design
Landscape Architecture
Which is NOT among the considerations of site development?
Slope
Focalization
Steps
Excavation and Grading
The effective use of components in a design to express a main idea through consistent style.
Balance
Transition
Unity
Proportion
The leading of visual observation towards a feature by placement of this feature at the vanishing point between radial or approaching lines.
Focalization
Transition
Rhythm
Proportion
It comprises the animate, horitcultural elements of landscape design.
Hardscape
Site Development
Site Furnishing
Softscape
This term is used by practitioners of landscape architecture and garden design to describe the construction materials which are used to improve a landscape by design.
Woodwork
Hard Landscape
Masonry
Softscape
Which is NOT an element of hardscape?
Gazebo
Conifers
Bollards
Sculptures
It is a planned space set aside for display, cultivation, or enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature.
Parks
Garden
Resort
Greenhouse
This model shows that the city grows in radial expansion from the center to form a series of concentric zones.
Hoyt Model
Multiple Nuclei Model
Radial Model
Concentric Zone Model
It is the modification of the concentric zone model of city development that allows an outward progression of growth
Hoyt Model
Concentric Zone Model
Multiple Nuclei Model
Radial Model
He's an economist who examined the spatial variations in household rent in 1942 American cities.
E.W. Burgess
Homer Hoyt
Chauncy Harris
Eduard Ullman
Cities tend to grow around not one but several districts.
Concentric Zone Model
Sector Model
Radial Model
Multiple Nuclei Model
The Multiple Nuclei Model was developed in __________.
1955
1845
1945
1950
He pioneered the American park system and was a social reformer who was concerned with the moral disintegration in large formless cities.
Ebenezer Howard
Frederick Law Olmstead
Daniel Burnham
Clarence Stain
Ebenezer Howard, through this movement, showed how workable and livable cities could be formed within a capitalist framework.
The Conservationist and The Park Movement
The Garden City Movement
City Beautiful Movement
New Community Movement
Three magnets in his paradigm depicted both the city and the countryside had both advantages and disadvantages.
Daniel Burnham
Ebenezer Howard
Frederick Law Olmstead
E.W. Burgess
This movement gave way to the city functional concepts including zoning.
New Community Movement
City Beautiful Movement
Garden City Movement
Park Movement
This concept alloted walkways for pedestrians to reach social places without crossing the roads.
Super Block Concept
Neighborhood Unit
Radburn's Concept
New Community Movement
This is the space for buildings within the street patterns of a city, and form the basic unit of a city's urban fabric.
Neighborhood Unit
City Blocks
Residential Streets
Cul-de-sacs
This was suggested as cul-de-sacs to eliminate through traffic and park space flows into the neighborhood.
Residential Streets
City Blocks
Neighborhood Units
Main roads
These are medium to large sections of the city, conceived of as having two-dimensional extent, which the observer mentally enters ''inside of'' and which are recognizable as having some common, identifying character.
Nodes
Landmarks
Edges
District
These are points and strategic spots in
a city into which an observer can enter,
and which are the intensive foci to and
from which he is traveling.
Nodes
Districts
Landmark
Edges
These are typically seen from many
angles and distances, over the tops of
smaller elements, and used as radial
references.
Nodes
Districts
Landmark
Edges
According to the Responsive Movement, which does NOT affect the choices of people when it comes to looking at a design of a place?
Permeability
Robustness
Popularity
Visual Appropriateness
The physical patterns, layouts, and structures that make up an urban center.
Organic Urban Form
Urban Form
Planned Urban Form
Landform
This greatly influences the location of cities since they are dependent on geography
Transportation
Worship and Government
Education and Culture
Housing
The process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.
Urban Planning
Urbanization
Migration
Housing
Which among the mentioned cities is NOT part of the top 5 best cities in the world (2019) according to the Business Insider?
Melbourne, Australia
Auckland, New Zealand
London, United Kingdom
Los Angeles, US
Refers to the unrestricted growth in many urban areas of housing, commercial development, and roads over large expanses of land, with little concern for urban planning.
Leapfrog Development
Urban Sprawl
Migration
Urbanization
Which is NOT a consequence of migration?
Urban Crimes
Job Sprawl
Over Population
Inadequate Facilities and Supplies
This is one of the major factors of urbanization.
Availability of transportation
Proper infrastructure and availability of utilities
Growth of private sector
Infrastructure facilities
This road usually consists of a mixture
of signaled intersections, roundabouts, traffic circles, or stop signs, often in the form of a four-way stop.
Local road
Collector road
Arterial road
Expressway
A controlled-access highway provides an unhindered flow of traffic, with no traffic signals, intersections or property access.
Expressway
Arterial Roads
Collector Roads
Local Roads
