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Dictums Part 3

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

There is a rumor that i cant draw and never could. This is probably because i work so much with models. Models are one of the most beautiful design tools, but i still do the finest drawings you can imagine

a)

Steven Holl

b)

Jørn Utzon

c)

Daniel Burnham

d)

Shigeru Ban

2.

Make no little plans; They have no magic to stir men's blood.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble l, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with evergrowing insistence.

a)

Shigeru Ban

b)

Jørn Utzon

c)

Daniel Burnham

d)

Alvar aalto

3.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialized form, we should try to bring it in under the same hat not a spintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together

a)

Alvar aalto

b)

Shigeru ban

c)

Jørn utzon

d)

Daniel Burnham

4.

my passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older i get the more i enjoy it, is because i believed that we architects can affect the quality of life of the people

a)

Alvar Aalto

b)

Richartd rogers

c)

Jørn Utzon

d)

Shigeru Ban

5.

Each new situation requires a new architecture

a)

Richard rogers

b)

Jean Novel

c)

Shigeru Ban

d)

Christopher Wren

6.

Architecture aims at eternity

a)

Christoper Wren

b)

Jean Novel

c)

Richard rogers

d)

Edwin Lutyen

7.

There will be never great architects or great architecture without great patrons

a)

Toyo ito

b)

Edwin Lutyens

c)

Christopher Wren

d)

Jean Novel

8.

architect made architecture too complex, we need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand

a)

Toyo ito

b)

Christopher Wren

c)

Jean Novel

d)

Edwin Lutyens

9.

in any architecture, ther is equity between the pragmatic function and symbolic function

a)

Edwin lutyens

b)

aldo rosi

c)

Toyo Ito

d)

Michael Graves

10.

what surprises me most in architecture as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state

a)

toyo ito

b)

Michael Graves

c)

Aldo rosi

d)

Minoru yamasaki

11.

the purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere which man can live, work and enjoy

a)

Aldo rosi

b)

julia morgan

c)

Minoru yamasaki

d)

Arthur erickson

12.

architecture is a visual art, and the building speaks for themeselves

a)

Aldo Rosi

b)

Julia morgan

c)

Minoru yamasaki

d)

Alvar aalto

13.

Profit and bottomline, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of the architectural expression

a)

Arthur Erickson

b)

Bruce John Graham

c)

John portman

d)

Harold wagoner

14.

Architecture is design of space, both interior and exterior. so it is much more closely related to dance than it is painting or sculpture

a)

John portman

b)

Bruce john Graham

c)

Harold wagoner

d)

Arthur erickson

15.

Architecture is not a private affair, even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most building are used by everybody, people of all walks of life."

a)

John Portman

b)

Harold Wagoner

c)

Luis baragan

d)

Arne Jacobsen

16.

the great thing about being an architect is you can walk into your dreams

a)

Harold wagoner

b)

John Portman

c)

Luis Barragan

d)

Arne Jacobsen

17.

Architecture is an art when one conciously or unconciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being

a)

Harold Wagoner

b)

Alvaro Siza

c)

Arne Jacobsen

d)

Luis Barragan

18.

if a building becomes architecture then it is art

a)

Arne Jacobsen

b)

Alvaro Siza

c)

Odile Decq

d)

John Pawson

19.

Tradition is a challenge to innovation

a)

Odile Decq

b)

Alvaro Siza

c)

John Pawson

d)

Walter Gropius

20.

Architecture is much more than a profession, it is a discipline

a)

Odile Decq

b)

John Pawson

c)

Alvaro Siza

d)

Walter Gropius

21.

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning whats already there

a)

John Pawson

b)

Odile Decq

c)

Walter Gropius

d)

Alvaro Siza

22.

Our Ultimate goal therefore was the composite but inseperable work of art, the great buildings, in which the old dividing line between monumental and decorative elements would have dissapeared forever

a)

Alvaro Siza

b)

John Pawson

c)

Walter Gropius

d)

Odile Decq