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WorksheetsTheory - Form,Space and Order, Arch.Styles and Theorists
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
The characteristic outline or surface configuration of a particular form. It is the principal aspect by which we identify and categorize forms.
Form
Volume
Surface
Shape
It signifies stability. When resting on one of its sides, this shape is an extremely stable figure.
Square
Circle
Triangle
Sphere
It is the relative size of parts of a whole.
Proportion
Scale
Module
Composition
It is a regular and repeated pattern.
Balance
Rhythm
Proportion
Contrast
He coined the term “International Style” along with Henry-Russel Hitchcock
Philip Johnson
Frank Lloyd Wright
Louis Khan
Le Corbusier
A style in 1920s to 1930s that is characterized by simple, clean shapes, often with a “streamlined” look; ornament that is geometric or stylized from representational forms.
Art Nouveau
Art Deco
Beaux-Art
Neoclassicism
A lavish and heavily ornamented classical style.
Art Nouveau
Art Deco
Beaux-Art
Neoclassicism
The term theory of architecture was originally simply the accepted translation of the Latin term __________. As used by Vitruvius.
Ratiocination
Doctrina de Architectura
Venustas
Racionalle
This was the first architectural handbook that emphasized the practical rather than the theoretical aspects of architecture, and it was the first to catalog the five orders.
Complete works on Architecture and Perspective
Complete works on Art and Orders
Estraordinario Libro
Sebastiano Libro
The author of the said book is ___________. An Italian Mannerist architect, painter and theorist. He also pioneered the use of high-quality illustrations to supplement the text.
Leon Batista Alberti
Sebastiano Serillo
Vitruvius
Andrea Paladio
Regola Delle Cinque Ordini D’ Architectura in english translation means _______________.
Complete works on Art and Orders.
Canon of Art and Orders
Canon of the Three Orders of Architecture.
Canon of the Five Orders of Architecture.
The author of the said book (Canon of Architecture) is ___________. He was one of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerisim
Michaelangelo
Sebastiano Serillo
Giacomo Barocci Vignola
Andrea Palladio
It is one of the most influential books in architecture history. It contains the author’s design celebrating the purity and simplicity of classical architecture.
4 books of Architecture
6 books of Architecture
8 books of Architecture
10 books of Architecture
A form transformation by altering one or more of its dimension and still retain its identity.
Dimensional transformation
Additive transformation
Subtractive transformation
Multiple transformation
Refers to the manner in which the surface of a form come together to define its shape and volume.
Transformation
Articulation
Combination
Visual Expression
What is the concept of Sydney opera house?
thin shells
snail husk
sails
slices of orange
The major characteristic of this style is swirling “whiplash curves”. Its ornaments are inspired by organic shapes such as plants flowers and animals, both in terms of design and the use of colors.
Beaux Arts
Rococo
Art Deco
Art Nouveau
He is one of the founders of Art Nouveau in the 1890s and became notable for the Central Stair Hall of Hotel Tassel in Brussels.
Victor Hugo
Victor Horta
Antoni Gaudi
Eiliel Saarinen
It is considered as the birthplace of Skyscrapers. The notable “Father of Skyscrapers” was the major contributor in this place.
It is often described as minimalist due to the idea of removing all ornaments and reduce to their most basic structural elements.
Post-modernism to Modernism
Expressionism
Metabolism
International Style
“Architecture begins where engineering ends.”
Walter Gropius
Le Corbusier
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Marcel Beuer
Farnsworth house is an example of a mature version of modern architecture which is what this architect coined as _________.
Skin-and-bones
International Style
Minimalism
Bauhaus
High-tech architectural style are identifiable by placing the support beams, duct work and other functional elements on the exterior of the building to create an open and adaptable interior space. High-tech buildings are often called as?
Bowellism
Machine-like
Structural expressionism
Futuristic
Placing the building’s service in full view is a trademark technique of this architect. This technique is also known as?
Bowellism
Metabolism
Structural expressionism
Biorealism
He was known for the innovation of tensile structure.
Buckminster Fuller
Rem Koolhaas
Frei Otto
Felix Candela
These architects are famous Post-modernist architects except for?
Who is this guy up here?
Erich Mendelsohn
Michael Graves
Robert Venturi
Philip Johnson
He is the architect of Portland building.
Erich Mendelsohn
Michael Graves
Robert Venturi
Philip Johnson
This serves as a canvas to demonstrate some of the “complexities and contradictions” in modern architecture.
Robert Venturi House
Vanna Venturi House
Fire station #4
AT&T Building
It was the Icon of Post modernism that was designed by the first ever Pritzker architecture Laurette.
The Glass House
Farnsworth House
Portland Building
AT&T bldg.
“Function influence but does not dictate form”
Alvar Aalto
Eero Saarinen
Eiliel Saarinen
Rem Koolhaas
