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WorksheetsTheory of Architecture (Part 1)
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 2hrs 57mins
A unified composition of two-dimensional shapes, or three-dimensional volumes, especially one that has, or gives the impression, of weight, density, and bulk.
Massing
Composition
Form
Perspective
The tendency of air or gas in a shaft or other vertical space to rise when heated, creating a draft that draws in cooler air/gas from below.
Effective Temperature
Chimney Effect (Stack Effect)
Greenhouse Effect
Insulation Effect
A form can be transformed by altering one or more of its dimensions and still retain its family identity. What type of transformation is this?
Dimensional Transformation
Subtractive Transformation
Additive Transformation
Visible Transformation
The articulation of the importance or significance of a form or space by its size, shape, or placement relative to the other forms and spaces of the organization.
Symmetry
Hierarchy
Axis
Rhythm
It is an architectural manifesto by the Swiss-French architect. A set of principles for modern buildings.
Four Books on Architecture
Five Points of Architecture
Ten Books of Architecture
Charter of Athens
The division of a line so that the whole is the greater part as that part is the smaller part. For example, 1:1/2, a proportion which is considered to be particularly pleasing to the eye.
Golden Ratio
Golden Section
Fibonacci Sequence
Modulor
It uses colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. One color is used as a dominant color while others are used to enrich the scheme.
Monochromatic Color Scheme
Analogous Color Scheme
Complementary Color Scheme
Split-Complementary Color-Scheme
In Four Books of Architecture, which book discusses the private townhouses and country estates?
1st Book
2nd Book
3rd Book
4th Book
This refers to the manner in which the surfaces of a form come together to define its shape and volume. It clearly reveals the precise nature of its parts and their relationship to each other and to the whole.
Articulation
Form
Clustered Form
Edge
It is a consequence of concrete frame construction. Because walls were then deprived of their constructional role, their design became free as well.
Free Façade
Free Plan
Roof Gardens
Pilotis
If equally spaced windows are introduced on the unbroken wall, then regular repetition is present, what do you call this type of rhythm?
Accented Rhythm
Continuous Rhythm
Unaccented Rhythm
Rhythm by Repetition
In 1942, Le Corbusier began his study and published "__________" - a Harmonious Measure to the human scale universally applicable to architecture and mechanics.
Vitruvian Man
The Modulor
Human Dimensions
Furnicube
A color that feels flat and lifeless, yet it provides enormous support to the other hues.
White
Black
Purple
Grey
When elements compete with each other for place of importance, there is a __________. This causes 'duality' or the presence of two strong conflicting personalities or masses resulting in discord and redundancy.
Volume Contradiction
Competition
Contrast
Confusion
What type of form composition is present in the Nakagin Capsule Tower by Kisho Kurokawa.
Linear Form
Grid Form
Radial Form
Clustered Form
In architecture, this type of character bears a certain relation to the same attribute of an individual. It is found that the element of personality plays an important part in the revealing character of both with man and with architecture.
Personality Character
Personal Character
Expressive Character
Associated Character
The degree of concentration and stability of a form. It depends on its geometry as well as its orientation relative to the ground plane and our line of sight.
Visual Acceleration
Velocity of Eyesight
Visual Inertia
Structure Stability
The primary shapes can be extended or rotated to generate volumes whose forms are distinct, regular, and easily recognizable. These forms are referred to as the __________.
Polyhedron
Platonic Solids
Tectonics
Dynamic Shapes
What type of spatial organization is shown in the Villa Capra (The Rotunda) at Vicenza, Italy, by Andrea Palladio?
Grid Organization
Radial Organization
Centralized Organization
Clustered Organization
It bears a certain relation to the same attribute to the life of an individual.
Functional Character
Personal Character
Relative Proportion
Balance
Refers to the quality of surface treatment associated with materials.
Tone
Mass
Volume
Texture
A color produced by combining lights of red, yellow, and blue wavelengths. These lights or additive primaries contain all the wavelengths necessary to produce a colorless or white light.
Subtractive Color
Primary Color
Selective Color
Additive Color
This color is relatively long and stimulating. It is considered as the strongest color psychological as it perceives optimism, confidence, extraversion, emotional strength, friendliness, and creativity.
Orange
Red
Yellow
Blue
A Pritzker Prize awardee 2015, German architect and structural engineer, noted for his use of lightweight structures, in particular tensile and membrane structures, including the roof of the Olympic Stadium in Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Jean Nouvel
Frei Paul Otto
Sir James Frazer Stirling
Gottfried Böhm
"Form is the mystery that defies description, but brings people pleasure", whose dictum is this?
Michael Graves
Antoni Gaudi
Alvar Aalto
Adolf Loos
In all of his works, light is an important controlling factor. His use of concrete is impeccable, leaving its natural color and texture, and almost became his trademark design.
Oscar Niemeyer
Eero Saarinen
Gottfried Böhm
Tadao Ando
In geometry, a two- or three-dimensional space in which the axioms and postulates of Euclidean geometry applies.
Expressive Space
Euclidean Space
Aesthetic Space
Visual Space
A model developed in Germany by Bassam Tibi, where the idea is that minorities can have an identity of their own but they should at least support the core concepts of the culture on which the society is based.
Core Culture
Monoculturalism
Melting Point
Multiculturalism
Direct borrowing from one culture to another.
Stimulus Diffusion
Innovative Diffusion
Tangible Diffusion
Transculturation
An applied science concerned with the characteristics of people that needs to be considered in the design of devices and systems, in order that people and things will interact effectively and safely.
Anthropomorphism
Anthropocentrism
Anthropometrics
Ergonomics
A primary element of form that has the properties of length, width, shape, surface, orientation, and position.
Point
Plane
Line
Volume
A type of character that results directly from the purpose of use of the building.
Character
Personal Character
Functional Character
Traditional Character
Concrete textured by leaving the impression of the form in which it was modeled.
Genius Loci
Pop Architecture
Beton Brut
Abstraction
This type of relationship requires that the two forms have corresponding planar surfaces which are parallel to each other.
Spatial Tension
Face-to-face Contact
Edge-to-edge Contact
Interlocking Volumes
It is the most common type of spatial relationship. It allows each space to be clearly defined and to respond, each in its own way, to specific functional or symbolic requirements. It can be defined with a row of columns, walls, or free-standing planes.
Spaces Linked by A Common Space
Interlocking Spaces
Adjacent Spaces
Space Within A Space
The size or proportion of a building element or space, or an article of furniture, related to the structural or functional dimensions of the human body.
Visual Scale
Mechanical Scale
Generic Scale
Human Scale
One of the three dimensions of colors. It is the purity or vividness of a hue, also called as intensity.
Saturation
Chroma
Hue
Value
What is "amihan"?
Southwest Monsoon
Northeast Monsoon
Southeast Monsoon
Northwest Monsoon
The degree by which a color differs from a gray of the same lightness or brightness, corresponding to saturation of the perceived color.
Value
Hue
Saturation
Chroma
