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WorksheetsHistory of Architecture
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Post & Lintel (Trabeated), Corbel or Cantilevered, Arch & Vault, Trussed
Pre-Historic
Greek
Roman
Egyptian
Isolated single upright stone also know as menhir.
Stonehenge
Monilith
Megalithic
Cave
Drapped female figure in a columnwith basket on her head.
Caryatids
Canephorae
Telamon
Atlas
Drapped female figure without hands and carrying nothing
Caryatids
Canephorae
Telamon
Atlas
Which does not belong to the group?
Doric
Tuscan
Ionic
Corinthian
Having nine columns on one or on each front
Heptasyle
Dodecastyle
Enneastyle
Pentastyle
The lowermost division if classical entablature, resting directly in the column capital.
Frieze
Cornice
Capital
Architrave
Which does not belong to the group?
Architrave
Entablature
Column
Pedestal
Colosseum, rome was commenced by vespacian and completed by?
Domitian
Trajan
Titus
None
Who design the interlocking thin shell, shark like concept, that can be seen on the shore of austrilia?
Jorg Utzon
Santiago Calatrava
Norman Foster
Michael Graves
Standard size of ifugao house?
2.5 x 2.5
3 x 3
4 x 4
5 x 5
From 5th century to the present, character of Byzantine architecture is?
Timber Trusses
Ribbed Arches
Domical Roof Construction
Valut
An ancient roman construction technique, using irregular shaped and random placed uncut stones?
Opus Caementium
Opus Reticulatum
Opus Incertum
Opus quaratum
One of world's supreme masterpieces of Romanesque arch w/c was the 1st bldg in Europe to have ribbed vaults?
Norwich cathedral
Burnham cathedral
Winchester cathedral
Durham Cathedral
Who invented a system of well-high universal application based on hyperboloids and paraboloids in buildings?
Zaha Hadid
Antoni Gaudi
Santiago Calatrava
Frank Gherry
Arch'l character of Romanesque style?
Sober and Dignified
Sober and Grotesque
Distinct piers & flat buttresses
Massiveness & Grandeur
Imposing entrance to acropolis and erected by architect mnesicles?
Poseidon
Erechtheion
Propylaea
Hypostyle
What capital order was used in the parthenon?
Doric
Ionic
Corinthian
Tuscan
A greek temple has 6 columns in front and at the back, at its sides, it has eleven columns, that includes the outermost columns at the front and back. What do you call this kind of temple?
Pseudodipteral
Tetrastyle
Decastyle
Peripteral
Development of dome to cover polygonal & square plans for churches, tombs and baptisteries is the character of?
Gothic
Byzantine
Romanesque
Early Christian
Which of the order was added by romans to the orders used by the greeks?
Composite
Tuscan
Ionic
Corinthian
Replicating materials such as marble and wood with paint, but has subsequently come to encompass many other decorative finishes for walls and furniture?
Faux painting
Fresco painting
Art deco
Bas relief
Who is the beginner of great hypostyle hall at Karnak and founder of 19th dynasty?
Rameses I
Seti I
Rameses II
Darius
Splendid example of early gothic?
St paul’s cathedral
Cathedral of notre dame
Basilica
Westminster abbey
Art Deco
Art Nouveau
Modern
American
The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is world-renowned and has the largest brick dome ever constructed, it is also known as?
Sienna cathedral
Florence cathedral
Basilica of the holy blood
Basilica of the holy cross
Architect who advocated the "organic arch." and envisioned the "broadacre city" for the future?
Frank Lloyd Wright
Wallace Harrison
Eero saarinen
Daniel Burnham
Standing stones usually capped with a horizontal slab?
Stonehenge
Chromelech
Menhir
Dolmen
Mineral of greatest importance to greek architecture of w/c Greece and her domains had ample of supplies?
Marble
Granite
Pozzolana
Clay
A continuous base of structure on which a colonnade is placed?
Stylobate
Crepidoma
Stereobate
Base
Decorative clerestory found above the windows of a Bahay na bato?
Colada
Rakuh
Ventanilla
Grill
Largest medieval cathedral in Europe, w/ exception of s. peter's rome. The largest church in the world?
Sagrada familia
Seville cathedral
Westminster abbey
Notre Dame
In egyptian arch., tomb of nobility was the?
Ziggurat
Pyramid
Mastaba
Stepped Pyramid
Temple w/ circular plan supporting a dome of about 140 ft in diam. & described by Thomas Jefferson as model of spherical arch is?
Pantheon
Parthenon
S. Sophia
St. peter basilica
Church plan of early christian churches?
Basilica
Latin cross
Greek cross
Calvary cross
Identify the arch in the illustration?
Equilateral Arch
Lancet Arch
Tudor Arch
Drop Arch
Architect/city planner who authored the "ekistics" - the science of human settlements?
Gropius
Doxiadis
Niemeyer
Vitruvius
Area reserved for entertaining guests in bahay kubo?
Dulang
Caida
Bulwagan
Sala
Temple whose most remarkable feature is use of all 3 greek orders, Doric outside, ionic & Corinthian within is
Artemus
Parthenon
Apollo epicurius
Atlas
For muslim architecture and characteristics, it is called gathering place?
Mimbar
Mihrab
Kaba
Minaret
Where did gothic architecture originate?
Spain
France
Germany
Italy
Most important distinctive character of mature Spanish Romanesque architecture?
Horseshoe arch
Parabolic arch
Lancet arch
Tudor
Traditional maranaw house for the ordinary members of the community?
Lamin
Dama
Torogan
Walay
Egyptian architecture is characterized by?
Columnar and Trabeated
Massiveness and Ornamentation
Monumental and Trabeated
Very Ornate
Round
Ellipse
Trapezoid
Half Circle
Atrium type of house, characteristic of roman times is believed to have originated w/ the?
Etruscans
Aegeans
Corsicans
None
Romanesque architecture in italy is distinguished from that of the rest of Europe by the use of ___for facing walls?
Bricks
Marble
Granite
Mosaic
What is the name for the decorated tiles that sometimes cover entire walls of buildings in Portugal, Spain, and places they colonized?
azulejos
faience
majolica
delfware
What was the world’s tallest human-made structure from 1899 to 1929?
Petronas Tower
Chrysler Building
Eiffel Tower
Empire State Building
An ornamented canopy of stone or marble permanently placed over the altar in a church.
Apse
Bema
Ambulatory
Baldachino
