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ARCHITECTURAL DICTUMS 02

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 2hrs 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Less is more, almost.

a)

Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

b)

Lucio Costa

c)

Marcel Lajos Breuer

d)

Marcus Vitruvius Polio

2.

I am neither a capitalist nor a socialist, I am not a religious or an atheist.

a)

Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

b)

Lucio Costa

c)

Marcel Lajos Breuer

d)

Marcus Vitruvius Polio

3.

Each one sees whatever he wishes to see.

a)

Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

b)

Lucio Costa

c)

Marcel Lajos Breuer

d)

Marcus Vitruvius Polio

4.

Architecture is a social art.

a)

Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

b)

Lucio Costa

c)

Marcel Lajos Breuer

d)

Marcus Vitruvius Polio

5.

Architecture must meet 3 requirements: Strength, Beauty, and Utilities.

a)

Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

b)

Lucio Costa

c)

Marcel Lajos Breuer

d)

Marcus Vitruvius Polio

6.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

a)

Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

b)

Lucio Costa

c)

Marcel Lajos Breuer

d)

Marcus Vitruvius Polio

7.

The reality of a building is not the container but the space within.

a)

Frank Lloyd Wright

b)

Pierre Luigi Nervi

c)

Oscar Niemeyer

d)

Kenzo Tange

8.

The architect is a molder of men, whether or not he consciously assumes responsibility.

a)

Frank Lloyd Wright

b)

Pierre Luigi Nervi

c)

Oscar Niemeyer

d)

Kenzo Tange

9.

Nature spelled with a capital N the way you spell God with a capital G.

a)

Frank Lloyd Wright

b)

Pierre Luigi Nervi

c)

Oscar Niemeyer

d)

Kenzo Tange

10.

Organic architecture: all parts are related to the whole as the whole was related to the parts; continuity and integrity.

a)

Frank Lloyd Wright

b)

Pierre Luigi Nervi

c)

Oscar Niemeyer

d)

Kenzo Tange

11.

Architecture is a synthesis of the technology and art.

a)

Frank Lloyd Wright

b)

Pierre Luigi Nervi

c)

Oscar Niemeyer

d)

Kenzo Tange

12.

Structural correctness is identical with functional, technical and economic truthfulness.

a)

Frank Lloyd Wright

b)

Pierre Luigi Nervi

c)

Oscar Niemeyer

d)

Kenzo Tange

13.

Architecture must have liberty of forms.

a)

Frank Lloyd Wright

b)

Pierre Luigi Nervi

c)

Oscar Niemeyer

d)

Kenzo Tange

14.

Modern architecture need not be western.

a)

Leoh Ming Pei

b)

Minoru Yamasaki

c)

Otto Wagner

d)

Kenzo Tange

15.

Symbolisms and blasphemies.

a)

Leoh Ming Pei

b)

Richard Rogers

c)

Otto Wagner

d)

Kenzo Tange

16.

Architecture is the expression of the past.

a)

Leoh Ming Pei

b)

Richard Rogers

c)

Otto Wagner

d)

Kenzo Tange

17.

Design is how, form is what.

a)

Leoh Ming Pei

b)

Richard Rogers

c)

Otto Wagner

d)

Kenzo Tange

18.

Nothing that is not practical can be beautiful.

a)

Michael graves

b)

Minoru Yamasaki

c)

Otto Wagner

d)

Adolf Loos

19.

Essential basis of natural forms as geometries.

a)

Michael graves

b)

Minoru Yamasaki

c)

Otto Wagner

d)

Adolf Loos

20.

Humanism.

a)

Michael graves

b)

Minoru Yamasaki

c)

Otto Wagner

d)

Adolf Loos

21.

Design as if you are a child.

a)

Michael graves

b)

Minoru Yamasaki

c)

Otto Wagner

d)

Adolf Loos

22.

Classical forms language of both the arctuated and trabeated models.

a)

Michael graves

b)

Minoru Yamasaki

c)

Otto Wagner

d)

Adolf Loos

23.

Ornament equals crime.

a)

Michael graves

b)

Minoru Yamasaki

c)

Otto Wagner

d)

Adolf Loos

24.

Lift the building in the ground.

a)

Michael graves

b)

Minoru Yamasaki

c)

Otto Wagner

d)

Adolf Loos

25.

Modern ideas in modern dress.

a)

Charles Renee Mackintosh

b)

Robert Mailart

c)

Erich Mendelsohn

d)

Eero Saarinen

26.

Design by living men for living men.

a)

Charles Renee Mackintosh

b)

Robert Mailart

c)

Erich Mendelsohn

d)

Eero Saarinen

27.

Mushroom slab construction "a bridge is like a house".

a)

Charles Renee Mackintosh

b)

Robert Mailart

c)

Erich Mendelsohn

d)

Eero Saarinen

28.

Fluid mass theory "architecture is the only tangible expression of space".

a)

Charles Renee Mackintosh

b)

Robert Mailart

c)

Erich Mendelsohn

d)

Eero Saarinen

29.

Spiritual function is inseparable from practical function.

a)

Eleil Saarinen

b)

Richard Nuetra

c)

Erich Mendelsohn

d)

Eero Saarinen

30.

Beauty grows from necessity, not from repetition.

a)

Eleil Saarinen

b)

Richard Nuetra

c)

Erich Mendelsohn

d)

Eero Saarinen

31.

A house is like a flower pot.

a)

Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)

b)

Richard Nuetra

c)

Rem Koolhaas

d)

Otto Wagner

32.

Most important material is man.

a)

Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)

b)

Richard Nuetra

c)

Rem Koolhaas

d)

Otto Wagner

33.

The client is chaos.

a)

Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)

b)

Richard Nuetra

c)

Rem Koolhaas

d)

Otto Wagner

34.

The integration of notion of cheapness to create sublime conditions.

a)

Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)

b)

Richard Nuetra

c)

Rem Koolhaas

d)

Otto Wagner

35.

A town in a town.

a)

Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)

b)

Richard Nuetra

c)

Rem Koolhaas

d)

Otto Wagner

36.

Form is the mystery that defies description but brings people pleasure.

a)

Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)

b)

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}

c)

Antonio Gaudi

d)

Marcel Bruer

37.

A cube within a cube.

a)

Walter Gropius

b)

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}

c)

Antonio Gaudi

d)

Marcel Bruer

38.

Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.

a)

Walter Gropius

b)

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}

c)

Antonio Gaudi

d)

Marcel Bruer

39.

Space and light and order. these are the things men need just as much they need bread or place to sleep.

a)

Walter Gropius

b)

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}

c)

Antonio Gaudi

d)

Marcel Bruer

40.

"the styles‟ are a lie.

a)

Walter Gropius

b)

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}

c)

Antonio Gaudi

d)

Marcel Bruer

41.

Straight lines belong to man, curved lines belong to God.

a)

Walter Gropius

b)

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}

c)

Antonio Gaudi

d)

Marcel Bruer

42.

Nature and architecture are two different things.

a)

Walter Gropius

b)

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}

c)

Antonio Gaudi

d)

Marcel Bruer

43.

Art and architecture, the new unity.

a)

Walter Gropius

b)

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}

c)

Antonio Gaudi

d)

Marcel Bruer

44.

Machine is to be our modern medium of design.

a)

Walter Gropius

b)

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}

c)

Antonio Gaudi

d)

Marcel Bruer

45.

Architecture built not for need, but for art.

a)

Adolf Loos

b)

Louis Khan

c)

Paul Rudolph

d)

Oscar Niemeyer

46.

Automobile is the most important organizing element in the structure.

a)

Adolf Loos

b)

Louis Khan

c)

Paul Rudolph

d)

Oscar Niemeyer

47.

Architecture is invention.

a)

Adolf Loos

b)

Louis Khan

c)

Paul Rudolph

d)

Oscar Niemeyer

48.

Supply and demand regulate architecture form.

a)

Adolf Loos

b)

Louis Khan

c)

Walter Gropius

d)

Marcel Bruer

49.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

a)

Adolf Loos

b)

Louis Khan

c)

Walter Gropius

d)

Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

50.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

a)

Adolf Loos

b)

Louis Khan

c)

Walter Gropius

d)

Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe