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Architect's Dictum 2

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"I am neither a capitalist nor a socialist, I am not a religious or an atheist."

a)

Lucio Costa

b)

Marcel Lajos Breuer

c)

Marcus Vitruvius Polio

d)

Frank Lloyd Wright

2.

"Each one sees whatever he wishes to see."

a)

Lucio Costa

b)

Marcel Lajos Breuer

c)

Marcus Vitruvius Polio

d)

Frank Lloyd Wright

3.

"Architecture is a social art."

a)

Lucio Costa

b)

Marcel Lajos Breuer

c)

Marcus Vitruvius Polio

d)

Frank Lloyd Wright

4.

"Architecture must meet 3 requirements: Strength, Beauty, and Utilities."

a)

Lucio Costa

b)

Marcel Lajos Breuer

c)

Marcus Vitruvius Polio

d)

Frank Lloyd Wright

5.

"Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts."

a)

Lucio Costa

b)

Marcel Lajos Breuer

c)

Marcus Vitruvius Polio

d)

Frank Lloyd Wright

6.

"The reality of a building is not the container but the space within."

a)

Lucio Costa

b)

Marcel Lajos Breuer

c)

Marcus Vitruvius Polio

d)

Frank Lloyd Wright

7.

"The architect is a molder of men, whether or not he consciously assumes responsibility."

a)

Lucio Costa

b)

Marcel Lajos Breuer

c)

Marcus Vitruvius Polio

d)

Frank Lloyd Wright

8.

"Nature spelled with a capital N the way you spell God with a capital G."

a)

Lucio Costa

b)

Marcel Lajos Breuer

c)

Marcus Vitruvius Polio

d)

Frank Lloyd Wright

9.

"Organic architecture: all parts are related to the whole as the whole was related to the parts; continuity and integrity."

a)

Lucio Costa

b)

Marcel Lajos Breuer

c)

Marcus Vitruvius Polio

d)

Frank Lloyd Wright

10.

"Architecture is a synthesis of the technology and art."

a)

Pierre Luigi Nervi

b)

Oscar Niemeyer

c)

Kenzo Tange

d)

Ieoh Ming Pei

11.

"Structural correctness is identical with functional, technical and economic truthfulness."

a)

Pierre Luigi Nervi

b)

Oscar Niemeyer

c)

Kenzo Tange

d)

Ieoh Ming Pei

12.

"Architecture must have liberty of forms."

a)

Pierre Luigi Nervi

b)

Oscar Niemeyer

c)

Kenzo Tange

d)

Ieoh Ming Pei

13.

"Modern architecture need not be western."

a)

Pierre Luigi Nervi

b)

Oscar Niemeyer

c)

Kenzo Tange

d)

Ieoh Ming Pei

14.

"Symbolisms and blasphemies."

a)

Pierre Luigi Nervi

b)

Oscar Niemeyer

c)

Kenzo Tange

d)

Ieoh Ming Pei

15.

"Architecture is the expression of the past."

a)

Pierre Luigi Nervi

b)

Oscar Niemeyer

c)

Kenzo Tange

d)

Ieoh Ming Pei

16.

"Design is how, form is what."

a)

Richard Rogers

b)

Otto Wagner

c)

Minoru Yamasaki

d)

Michael Graves

17.

"Nothing that is not practical can be beautiful."

a)

Richard Rogers

b)

Otto Wagner

c)

Minoru Yamasaki

d)

Michael Graves

18.

"Essential basis of natural forms as geometries"

a)

Richard Rogers

b)

Otto Wagner

c)

Minoru Yamasaki

d)

Michael Graves

19.

"Humanism"

a)

Richard Rogers

b)

Otto Wagner

c)

Minoru Yamasaki

d)

Michael Graves

20.

"Design as if you are a child."

a)

Richard Rogers

b)

Otto Wagner

c)

Minoru Yamasaki

d)

Michael Graves

21.

"Classical forms language of both the arctuated and trabeated models."

a)

Richard Rogers

b)

Otto Wagner

c)

Minoru Yamasaki

d)

Michael Graves

22.

"Ornament equals crime."

a)

Adolf Loos

b)

Charles Renee Mackintosh

c)

Robert Mailart

d)

Erich Mendelsohn

23.

"Lift the building in the ground."

a)

Adolf Loos

b)

Charles Renee Mackintosh

c)

Robert Mailart

d)

Erich Mendelsohn

24.

"Modern ideas in modern dress."

a)

Adolf Loos

b)

Charles Renee Mackintosh

c)

Robert Mailart

d)

Erich Mendelsohn

25.

"Design by living men for living men."

a)

Adolf Loos

b)

Charles Renee Mackintosh

c)

Robert Mailart

d)

Erich Mendelsohn

26.

Mushroom slab construction


"A bridge is like a house."

a)

Adolf Loos

b)

Charles Renee Mackintosh

c)

Robert Mailart

d)

Erich Mendelsohn

27.

Fluid mass theory


"Architecture is the only tangible expression of space."

a)

Adolf Loos

b)

Charles Renee Mackintosh

c)

Robert Mailart

d)

Erich Mendelsohn

28.

"Spiritual function is inseparable from practical function."

a)

Eero Saarinen

b)

Eleil Saarinen

c)

Richard Nuetra

d)

Rem Koolhaas

29.

"Beauty grows from necessity, not from repetition."

a)

Eero Saarinen

b)

Eleil Saarinen

c)

Richard Nuetra

d)

Rem Koolhaas

30.

"A house is like a flower pot."

a)

Eero Saarinen

b)

Eleil Saarinen

c)

Richard Nuetra

d)

Rem Koolhaas

31.

"Most important material is man."

a)

Eero Saarinen

b)

Eleil Saarinen

c)

Richard Nuetra

d)

Rem Koolhaas

32.

"The client is chaos."

a)

Eero Saarinen

b)

Eleil Saarinen

c)

Richard Nuetra

d)

Rem Koolhaas

33.

"The integration of notion of cheapness to create sublime conditions"

a)

Eero Saarinen

b)

Eleil Saarinen

c)

Richard Nuetra

d)

Rem Koolhaas

34.

"A town in a town"

a)

Otto Wagner

b)

Alvar Aalto

c)

Le Corbusier

d)

Antonio Gaudi

35.

"Form is the mystery that defies description but brings people pleasure."

a)

Otto Wagner

b)

Alvar Aalto

c)

Le Corbusier

d)

Antonio Gaudi

36.

"A cube within a cube."

a)

Otto Wagner

b)

Alvar Aalto

c)

Le Corbusier

d)

Antonio Gaudi

37.

"Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light."

a)

Otto Wagner

b)

Alvar Aalto

c)

Le Corbusier

d)

Antonio Gaudi

38.

"Space and light and order. These are the things men need just as much they need bread or place to sleep."

a)

Otto Wagner

b)

Alvar Aalto

c)

Le Corbusier

d)

Antonio Gaudi

39.

"The styles are a lie."

a)

Otto Wagner

b)

Alvar Aalto

c)

Le Corbusier

d)

Antonio Gaudi

40.

"Straight lines belong to man, curved lines belong to God."

a)

Otto Wagner

b)

Alvar Aalto

c)

Le Corbusier

d)

Antonio Gaudi

41.

"Nature and architecture are two different things."

a)

Marcel Bruer

b)

Walter Gropius

c)

Louis Khan

d)

Paul Rudolph

42.

"Art and architecture, the new unity"

a)

Marcel Bruer

b)

Walter Gropius

c)

Louis Khan

d)

Paul Rudolph

43.

"Machine is to be our modern medium of design."

a)

Marcel Bruer

b)

Walter Gropius

c)

Louis Khan

d)

Paul Rudolph

44.

"Architecture built not for need, but for art."

a)

Marcel Bruer

b)

Walter Gropius

c)

Louis Khan

d)

Paul Rudolph

45.

"Automobile is the most important organizing element in the structure."

a)

Marcel Bruer

b)

Walter Gropius

c)

Louis Khan

d)

Paul Rudolph

46.

"Architecture is invention."

a)

Oscar Niemeyer

b)

Adolf Loos

c)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

d)

Walter Gropius

47.

"Supply and demand regulate architecture form."

a)

Oscar Niemeyer

b)

Adolf Loos

c)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

d)

Walter Gropius

48.

"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."

a)

Marcel Bruer

b)

Adolf Loos

c)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

d)

Walter Gropius

49.

"Architecture begins where engineering ends."

a)

Marcel Bruer

b)

Adolf Loos

c)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

d)

Walter Gropius

50.

"A building has straight geometrical lines. Even when these lines are free, it must always be evident that they have been studied and that they did not spring up simultaneously."

a)

Marcel Bruer

b)

Adolf Loos

c)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

d)

Walter Gropius