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Master Architects

Total questions: 41

Worksheet time: 1hrs 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

He was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. He believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. He played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship.

a)

Walter Gropius

b)

Frank Lloyd Wright

c)

Cass Gilbert

d)

Louis Sullivan

2.

He was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, and he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, and North and South America.

a)

Adolf Loos

b)

Auguste Perret

c)

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris

d)

Jacques Herzog

3.

He was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings. He never regarded himself as an artist, seeing painting and sculpture as "branches of the tree whose trunk is architecture." The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards.

a)

Alvar Aalto

b)

Eero Saarinen

c)

Eilel Saarinen

d)

Gunnar Aspland

4.

He was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect, who initiated important structural systems for skyscrapers. Considered the "father of tubular designs" for high-rises. He also a pioneer in computer-aided design (CAD). He was the designer of the Sears Tower, since renamed Willis Tower, the tallest building in the world from 1973 until 1998 and the 100-story John Hancock Center. He has been called the "Einstein of structural engineering" and the "Greatest Structural Engineer of the 20th Century" for his innovative use of structural systems that remain fundamental to modern skyscraper design and construction.

a)

Skidmore

b)

Louis Kahn

c)

Bruce John Graham

d)

Fazlur Rahman Khan

5.

He was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, designing objects, typefaces, and important buildings in a range of styles from the 1900s to the 1930s. He was a foundation member of the German Werkbund in 1907, when he also began designing for AEG, pioneered corporate design, graphic design, producing typefaces, objects, and buildings for the company. In the next few years, he became a successful architect, a leader of the rationalist / classical German Reform Movement of the 1910s. After WW1 he turned to Brick Expressionism, designing the remarkable Hoechst Administration Building outside Frankfurt, and from the mid 1920s increasingly to New Objectivity. He was also an educator, heading the architecture school at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1922 to 1936.

a)

Maria Ludwig Michael Mies

b)

Peter Behrens

c)

Walter Gropius

d)

Le Corbusier

6.

Dictum of Famous Architect: "I believe that people make natural association with forms, color and composition of elements while decoration and detailing help communicate with a building's purpose."

a)

Walter Grop

b)

Michael Graves

c)

Le Corbusier

d)

Auguste Perette

7.

"The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. Let us form a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists. Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting'; ·is attributed to?

a)

Walter Gropius

b)

Peter Behrens

c)

Mies van der Rohe

d)

Le Corbusier

8.

The Iconic term "Maximum simplicity" is attributed to?

a)

Frank Lloyd Wright

b)

Marcel Breuer

c)

Mies van der Rohe

d)

Le Corbusier

9.

"The Structure must be well oriented"

a)

Juan Nakpil

b)

Cesar Concio

c)

Francisco Mañosa

d)

Mies van der Rohe

10.

“ORNAMENT is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected.”

a)

Auguste Perrette

b)

Adolf Loos

c)

Otto Wagner

d)

Gunnar Asplund

11.

This building is located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

a)

FIGURE C

b)

FIGURE B

c)

FIGURE D

d)

FIGURE E

12.

Location of Figure D

a)

Agra, India

b)

London, England

c)

Dubai, UAE

d)

Baku, Azerbaijan

13.

Location of Figure C

a)

Agra, India

b)

Jerusalem, Israel

c)

Dubai, UAE

d)

New Delhi, India

14.

Location of Figure A

a)

Agra, India

b)

Jerusalem, Israel

c)

Dubai, UAE

d)

New Delhi, India

15.

Location of Figure E

a)

Chicago, Illinois

b)

Manhattan, New York

c)

Ontario, Toronto

d)

Seattle, Washington

16.

He designed the Yoyogi Stadium in Japan.

a)

Figure A

b)

Figure B

c)

Figure C

d)

Figure D

e)

Figure E

17.

He designed the Pritzker Pavilion located in Chicago, Illinois.

a)

Figure A

b)

Figure B

c)

Figure C

d)

Figure D

e)

Figure E

18.

He designed the Lever House located in New York.

a)

Figure D

b)

Figure B

c)

Figure C

d)

Figure E

e)

None of the above

19.

He designed the Apple Park located in Cupertino, California.

a)

Figure D

b)

Figure B

c)

Figure C

d)

Figure E

e)

None of the above

20.

He designed the famous Convention Center in Dublin, Ireland.

a)

Figure D

b)

Figure B

c)

Figure C

d)

Figure E

e)

None of the above

21.

Architect of Figure A

a)

Philip Johnson

b)

Robert Venturi

c)

I.M Pei

d)

Kevin Roche

22.

Architect of Figure E

a)

Christian De Portzamparc

b)

Herzog and De Meuron

c)

Fumihiko Maki

d)

Frank Gehry

23.

Location of Figure B

a)

Mill run, Pennsylvania

b)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

c)

New Canaan, Connecticut

d)

Plano, Illinois

24.

Architect of Figure C

a)

Rem Koolhas

b)

Zaha Hadid

c)

Renzo Piano

d)

Frank Gehry

25.

Location of Figure D

a)

London, England

b)

Paris, France

c)

Versailles, France

d)

St. Petersburg, Russia

26.

Architect of Figure A

a)

R. Villarosa

b)

Leandro Locsin

c)

C.C. De Castro

d)

Alfredo Luz

27.

Architect of Figure D

a)

Jose Maria Zaragoza

b)

Recio + Casas

c)

GF and Partners

d)

Teofilo Vasquez

28.

Architect of Figure C

a)

Jose Maria Zaragoza

b)

Recio + Casas

c)

GF and Partners

d)

Teofilo Vasquez

29.

Architect of Figure B

a)

Roque Ruaño

b)

Otilio A. Arellano

c)

GF and Partners

d)

Teofilo Vasquez

30.

Architect of Figure E

a)

Fernando Ocampo

b)

Antonio Toledo

c)

Pablo Antonio

d)

Juan Arellano

31.

Architect of the Magsaysay Building. One of the tallest Skyscraper in the Philippines

a)

C.C. De Castro

b)

Alfredo Luz

c)

Leandro Locsin

d)

Juan Arellano

32.

William Parsons was the Architect of the famous Manila Hotel. It was renovated in 1935 and the a new building was added in the year 1975. Who designed the new building?

a)

Andres Lune de san Pedro

b)

Welton Becket

c)

Leandro Locsin

d)

Alfredo Luz

33.

He design the building which has the Country’s first escalator. When it opened in 1962, it was the largest and most modern Airport in Southeast Asia.

a)

Fredirico Ilustre

b)

Felipe Mendoza

c)

Leandro Locsin

d)

Recio + Casas

34.

He designed the new GSIS building.

a)

Fredirico Ilustre

b)

Jorge Ramos

c)

C.C. De Castro

d)

Gabriel Formoso

35.

Before it became the Quirino Grandstand, an extension designed by Ilustre, It was just a Small stage (Podium) named Independence Grandstand for ceremonies and activities. Who designed the Independence Grandstand?

a)

Juan Arellano

b)

Juan Nakpil

c)

Antonio Toledo

d)

Gabriel Formoso

36.

The Pritzker Price Awardee in the Year 2015.

a)

Shigeru Ban

b)

Toyo Ito

c)

Frei Otto

d)

Wang Shu

37.

The Pritzker Price Awardee in the Year 2010.

a)

Peter Zumthor

b)

Thom Mayne

c)

Wang Shu

d)

None of the Above

38.

He designed the famous Flatiron Building located in Manhattan, New York.

a)

Louis Sullivan

b)

William LeBaron Jenney

c)

Daniel Burnham

d)

William Parsons

39.

He designed the famous Auditorium located in Chicago, Illinois. The structure was inspired by the Home Insurance Building.

a)

Louis Sullivan

b)

William LeBaron Jenney

c)

Daniel Burnham

d)

Henry Hobson Richardson

40.

Along with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, He is one of "the recognized trinity of American architecture".

a)

Eero Saarinen

b)

William LeBaron Jenney

c)

Daniel Burnham

d)

Henry Hobson Richardson

41.

Attach the word "Architect" before your complete name/nickname to get the answer correct. Then attach suffix, "uap."

(a)