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WorksheetsHistory of Architecture (General Overview) [Dee - Quiz no.1]
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 22mins
A temple Tower in Khmer Architecture constructed of stone and richly carved with bas-reliefs depicting epic tales and important events of Khmer history
Wat
Prasat
Baray
Mebon
A large shallow water tank in the architecture of Khmer Empire, holding water of irrigation and symbolizing the font of the hindu cosmos.
Mebon
Baray
Prasat
Wat
The architecture of the Bronze Age civilization that flourished on Crete from about 3000 to 1100 BCE. Named after the legendary King Minos of Knossos and characterized by the elaborate palaces at Knossus and Phaetus.
Greek Architecture
Mycenaean Architecture
Minoan Architecture
Greek Architecture
an ancient Egyptian tomb rectangular in shape with sloping sides and a flat roof, consisting of an underground burial chamber with rooms above it (at ground level) in which to store offerings.
(a)
The arcuated system - that involving the use of arches - was not employed by the greeks. What system or fundamental principle of construction did they employ instead?
(a)
a slight convex curve in the shaft of a column, introduced to correct the visual illusion of concavity produced by a straight shaft.
Arrises
Flutting
Entasis
Peristyle
Greeks were the first to employ entasis in their architecture. True or false?
True
False
The standard unit of space in Chinese Architecture, maked by adjacent frame supports. The nature and appropriate scale of a building determine the number of such unit to be alloted.
Lingtai
Biyong
Jian
Yin-yang
The term used to define the space between columns that supports an entablature. The measurement between columns was calculated and expressed in terms of the diameters of the columns in the building
Peristyle
Echinus
Supercolumniation
Intercolumniation
An elaborate public bathing establishment of the ancient greeks and romans. Consisting of hot, warm, and cool plunges, sweat rooms, and athletic and other facilities.
(a)
A covered walkway or portico in greek architecture. Commonly for public use.
Agora
Forum
Stoa
Lyceum
The religious center of ancient Athens.
(a)
Who built the Machu Picchu atop the eastern cordillera of Southern Peru?
Aztec
Mayans
Inca
Zapotec
The islamic Architecture of North Africa and especially of the regions of Spain. Characterized by the building of large mosques and elobrate fortress-palaces
Moorish Architecture
Mozarabic Architecture
Sudano-Sahelian Architecture
Mughal Architecture
The style of architecture originating in France in the 12th century and existing in the western half of Europe through the middle of 16th century. Characterized by the building of great cathedrals, a progressive lightening and heightening of structure.
(a)
A style of fine and applied art current in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Characterized by fluid, undulating motifs, often derived from natural forms.
Jugendstil
Stile Liberty
Art Nouveau
Sezession
The architect who helped design the new capital of Brazil that is to replace Rio De Janeiro
Lucio Costa
Oscar Niemeyer
Le Corbusier
Bruno Costa
The movement in Architecture in the 1950s. Emphasizing the aesthetic use of basic buildign processes, esp. of cast-in-place concrete, with no apparent concern for visual amenity.
(a)
A school of art that was founded in the Netherlands in 1917, embracing painting, sculpture, architecture, furniture, and the decorative arts, marked esp. by the use of black and white with the primary colors, rectangular forms, and assymetry.
Bauhaus
Jugendstil
De Stijl
Taliesin
A deliberate philosophical and practical estrangement from the past in the arts and literature occuring in the course of the 20th century and taking form in any of various innovative movements and styles.
Post-modernism
Modernism
Deconstructivism
International Style
Way before the famous grid pattern of New York’s urban fabric was created, it existed in the ancient Greek civilization. Who is the father of European Urban Planning?
Thales of Miletus
Hippodamus of Miletus
Pericles
Erasthostenes
Parthenon is dedicated to which Ancient Greek God?
(a)
The Ancient Greek architecture, particularly their temples, were originally made of
stone
Wood
Concrete
Combination of stone and wood
The architecture of the Amerindian people who settled in Central MExico around 900 CE and who are traditionally credited with laying the foundation of Aztec Culture.
Mixtec Architecture
Toltec Architecture
Aztec Architecture
Inca Architecture
People of Cambodia who established an empire in the 5th century CE and dominated most of Indochina from the 9th to the 12th centuries
(a)
The activity, spirit, or time of the humanistic revival of classical art, literature, and learning originating to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
(a)
The school of design established in Weimar, Germany, in 1919 by Walter Gropius, moved to DEssau in 1926, and closed in 1933 as a result of Nazi Hostility.
(a)
A functional architecture devoid of regional characteristics, developed in the 1920s and 1930s in Western Europe and the US and applied throughout the world.
Modernism
Post-modernism
Constructivism
International style
4 of these are included in Le Corbusier’s 5 points of architecture. Pick which of the following is not included.
I. Pilotis (pillars)
II. roof garden
III. open floor plan
IV. Full-height windows
V. open facades
I.
II.
V.
IV.
A style of decorative art developed originally in the 1920s. Marked chiefly by geometric motifs, streamlined and curvilinear form, sharply defined outlines, use of synthetic materials such as plastics. Also called style moderne
(a)
