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Periods in Architecture

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Period with rapid industrialization that unleashed mass produced items like furniture and wallpaper (late 19th early 20th century)

a)

Art Deco

b)

Arts and Crafts

c)

Byzantine

d)

Modern

2.

Period around 1925-1940 filled with sharp angles, zigzag shapes, and implied movement. Works were often referred to as Jazz Modern.

a)

Classical

b)

Renaissance

c)

Art Deco

d)

Arts and Crafts

3.

Mid 14th -16th centuries period took inspiration from Tuscan, Corinthian, and Composite orders.

a)

Classic

b)

Gothic

c)

Renaissance

d)

Byzantine

4.

Late 16th century to early 18th century period whereby palaces and churches displayed wealth with rich colors and surfaces.

a)

Baroque

b)

Byzantine

c)

Renaissance

d)

Modern

5.

850 BCE-476 CE period where Greeks developed cities and urban grids to control movement of people.

a)

Romanesque

b)

Classical

c)

Mesoamerican

d)

Gothic

6.

Period aligned around solar and astronomical features framed in towering temples (1800BCE-1521 CE)

a)

Mesoamerican

b)

Byzantine

c)

Classical

d)

Arts and Crafts

7.

1970s to early 21st century period included stylistic hybrids and mixed forms from other periods.

a)

Modern

b)

Postmodernism

c)

Classical

d)

Art Deco

8.

Before 3500 BCE, period where earliest societies formed gathering sites, created sunken spaces, and erected monuments.

a)

Ancient Egypt

b)

Prehistoric

c)

Classical

d)

Byzantine

9.

1100-1450 period with cathedrals built with soaring interiors, flying buttresses, and stained glass.

a)

Neoclassicism

b)

Gothic

c)

Byzantine

d)

Prehistoric

10.

Grand traveling tours led to opera house, library, and museum designs. (18th-19th centuries)

a)

Classic

b)

Gothic Revival

c)

Neoclassicism

d)

Gothic

11.

Late 19th-20th centuries, characteristics included whiplash/arabesque and graceful lines winding through space.

a)

Gothic

b)

Modern

c)

Art Nouveau

d)

Art Deco

12.

Period of Mass production using concrete, steel, and glass with minimal decorations (1900s-1960).

a)

Modernism

b)

Postmodernism

c)

Classical

d)

Art Deco

13.

330-15th century period where forms were merged with high domes adding mosaics and carved beauty.

a)

Classical

b)

Byzantine

c)

Modernism

d)

Arts and Crafts

14.

800-1100 period featuring Christian structures with thick walls and columns symmetrical around more than 2 axes.

a)

Mesoamerican

b)

Romanesque

c)

Classical

d)

Baroque

15.

3050-332 BCE period whose core foundations had intricate measures. Period had designated architects who offered detailed drawings.

a)

Prehistoric

b)

Ancient Egypt

c)

Classical

d)

Postmodernism

16.

18th and 19th centuries, the Gothic Revival period featured what?

a)

foreboding structures using cast iron and large pane glass

b)

arches and high domes

c)

sunken spaces for dwelling

d)

a palette of aluminum, black lacquer, and glass

17.

Your architecture teacher's first name is

a)

Kathy

b)

Karyn

c)

Quinn

d)

Kay

18.

In its most basic form, architecture is

a)

a structure

b)

shelter

c)

building

d)

a career