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Total questions: 44
Worksheet time: 24mins
Colours that are opposite each other on the colour wheel are considered to be _______________________.
bright
complementary
dull
triadic
What are these called?
Tertiary Colours
Primary Colours
Secondary Colours
What are the secondary colours?
orange, green and blue
orange, green and violet
green, violet and red
green, red and yellow
Mixing primary and secondary Colours give us what?
Monochromatic Colours
Primary Colours
Tertiary Colours
When you mix a colour with BLACK you make a __________?
Tint
Tone
Shade
Where is the birthplace of skyscrapers?
Chicago
Florida
New York
Los Angeles
The branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with a view to establishing the meaning and validity of critical judgments concerning art.
Architecture
Taste
Aesthetics
Beauty
Who said "the magnificent display of volume put together in the light"?
Mies Van der Rohe
Minster
Louis Sullivan
Le Corbusier
Who is the first recipient of the Pritzker Prize in 1979?
Oscar Niemeyer
Luis Barragan
Philip Johnson
Mies Van der Rohe
The Pritzker Prize recipient of 2016.
Alejandro Aravena
Frei Otto
Shigeru Ban
Toyo Ito
It is the tallest building in New York City (as per 2019 record).
Empire State Building
One World Trade Center
Chrysler Building
Sears Tower
A system of elements ranked, classified, and organized one above another, according to importance or significance.
Arrangement
Position
Hierarchy
Proximity
A state of utter disorder or confusion.
Contradiction
Chaos
Tension
Opposition
The systematic arranging of interdependent or coordinated parts into a coherent unity or functioning whole.
Diagram
Composition
Organization
Structure
Human qualities are associated with non-human entities/events. Qualities such as form, values, and emotions.
Anthropocentrism
Anthropomorphism
Anthropometrics
Ergonomics
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
Refers to the quality of surface treatment associated with materials.
Tone
Mass
Volume
Texture
Which style is this church in?
Gothic
Neo-classical
Baroque
Modernist
Islamic architecture is characterized by.........
birthday cake type decorations
minarets, geometric patterns and domes
buttresses and stained glass windows
steel and glass building materials
What do you call an ancient building or settlement that is not complete?
a facade
the foundations
a column
ruins
This church is an example of ..........................architecture
Baroque
Islamic
Persian
Gothic
The name for the dome-like ceiling is..................
vault
facade
nave
concourse
A large space in front or in the middle of a building is called........
a nave
a vault
a concourse
ruins
The central part of a church is called ................
a concourse
a basement
a dome
the nave
