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WorksheetsTOA M-03 01
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Best known as the author of De Architectura libre decem known today as "The Ten Books of Architecture"
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Marcus Aurelius Pilus
Marcus Caesar Pilus
Augustus Vitruvius Pollio
None of the Above
Believed to be the first architect and engineer the world has known by name***
Imhotep
Nebuchadnezzar II
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Hemiunu
None of the Above
built in 19 BC, in a place known as Fanum Fortunae in Italy, is the only known project Vitruvius has made according to his writings but has completely disappeared
Basilica Porcia
Basilica Sancti Petri
Abu Mena Basilica and Complex
Basilica de Fano
None of the Above
Vitruvius stated that the Greeks invented the classical orders which gave them a sense of proportion, culminating in their understanding the proportion of the greatest work of art: _____
Nature
Temples for the Gods
The human body
The human mind
None of the Above
The Vitruvian Man, which was later drawn by Leonardo da Vinci, where the human body was inscribed in a circle and a square, were forms considered as the fundamental geometric patterns of what?
cosmic ratio
cosmic order
cosmic shapes
cosmic theory
None of the Above
Who discovered Vitruvius book "De Architectura" in 1414?
Poggio Bracciolini
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Leonardo da Vinci
Leon Battista Alberti
None of the Above
According to Vitruvius: what is the width of four fingers?
cubit
palm
foot
pace
None of the Above
According to Vitruvius: what is the width of four palms?
cubit
palm
foot
pace
None of the Above
According to Vitruvius: what is the width six palms?
cubit
palm
foot
pace
None of the Above
According to Vitruvius: what is four cubits?
cubit
palm
foot
pace
None of the Above
According to Vitruvius: what is man's height?
four cubits
two cubits
eight cubits
6 cubits
None of the Above
According to Vitruvius: the length of man's outspread arms is equal to what?
his span
his height
eight cubits
his waistline
None of the Above
According to Vitruvius: the distance from the hairline to the bottom of the chin is _____ of a man's height.
one-half
one-eighth
one-fifth
one-tenth
None of the Above
According to Vitruvius: the distance from the top of the head to the bottom of the chin is ____ of a man's height
one-half
one-eighth
one-fifth
one-tenth
None of the Above
According to Vitruvius: the maximum width of the shoulders is _____ of a man's height
one-fifth
one-fourth
one-third
one-half
None of the Above
According to Vitruvius: the distance from the middle of the chest to the top of the head is _____ of a man's height
one-fifth
one-fourth
one-third
one-half
None of the Above
According to Vitruvius: the distance from the elbow to the tip of the hand is _____ of a man's height.
one-fifth
one-fourth
one-third
one-half
None of the Above
According to Vitruvius: the distance from the elbow to the armpit is _____ of a man's height.
one-eight
one-sixth
one-tenth
one-fourth
None of the Above
According to Vitruvius: the length of the hand is _____ of a man's height
one-eight
one-sixth
one-tenth
one-fourth
None of the Above
According to Vitruvius: the distance from the bottom of the chin to the nose is _____ of the length of the head
one-eight
one-sixth
one-half
one-third
None of the Above
According to Vitruvius: the length of the ear is _____ of the length of the face
one-eight
one-sixth
one-half
one-third
None of the Above
This was built long after Vitruvius death but its excellent state of preservation to this day makes it of great importance to those interested in Vitruvian architecture
The Parthenon
The Pantheon
Basilica Sancti Petri
Hagia Sophia
None of the Above
What is the real name of Le Corbusier?
Jean-Charles-Jeanneret
Jean-Édouard Jeanneret
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret
Charles-Édouard Le Corbusier
None of the Above
Le Corbusier is famous for being one of the pioneers of what?
Brutalist Architecture
Modern Architecture
Post-Modern Architecture
Art Deco Architecture
None of the Above
In 1908, Le Corbusier studied architecture in Vienna with who?
Mies Van Der Rohe
Joseph Paxton
Josef Hoffman
John Ruskin
None of the Above
After Le Corbusier's travels around Europe, and especially visiting the Parthenon, he wrote what book?
Vers une Architecture
De re Aedificatoria
Trattato di Arquitectura
Jugenstil
None of the Above
The result of Le Corbusier's four years of teaching, working on theoretical architectural studies using modern techniques
Chandigarh
Robie House
Villa Savoye
Dom-ino House
None of the Above
This project of Le Corbusier's, called for large blocks of cell-like individual apartments stacked one on top of the other, with plans that included a living room, bedrooms and kitchen, as well as a garden terrace. A solution to the growing slums of Paris.
Unite d' Habitation
Immeubles Villas
Ville Contemporaine
Dom-ino House
None of the Above
In 1992, he presented this scheme for three million inhabitants. The centerpiece of this plan was the group of sixty-story cruciform skyscrapers; steel-framed office buildings encased in huge curtain walls of glass
Ville Contemporaine
Immeubles Villas
Unite d' Habitation
Dom-ino House
None of the Above
After World War II, Le Corbusier attempted to realize his urban planning schemes on a small scale by constructing a series of "unités" or housing block units around France and the most famous of these was _____
Ville Contemporaine
Immeubles Villas
Unite d' Habitation
La Ville Radieuse
None of the Above
In the 1930s, Le Corbusier expanded and reformulated his ideas on urbanism, eventually publishing them in _____ of 1935. The difference if this with contemporary city is its abandonment of the class-based stratification of the former.
Ville Contemporaine
Immeubles Villas
Unite d' Habitation
La Ville Radieuse
None of the Above
Epitomizes Le Corbusier's five points of architecture
Chandigarh
Villa Savoye
Unite d' Habitation
La Ville Radieuse
None of the Above
reinforced concrete stilts that lifted the bulk of the structure off the ground
Pilotis
Free Facade
Open Floor Plan
Uninterrupted Views
Roof Garden
reinforced concrete stilts that lifted the bulk of the structure off the ground
Pilotis
Free Facade
Open Floor Plan
Uninterrupted Views
Roof Garden
meaning non-supporting walls that could be designed as the architect wished
Pilotis
Free Facade
Open Floor Plan
Uninterrupted Views
Roof Garden
meaning that the floor space was free to be configured into rooms without concern for supporting walls
Pilotis
Free Facade
Open Floor Plan
Uninterrupted Views
Roof Garden
meaning houses should have unhampered visual contact with its surrounding views.
Pilotis
Free Facade
Open Floor Plan
Uninterrupted Views
Roof Garden
Exemplified Le Corbusier's Modulor system's application
Unite d' Habitation
Villa Stein
Chandigarh
Villa Savoye
None of the Above
What does CIAM stand for?
Customer Identity and Access Management
Congress International of Architecture
Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne
Uninterrupted ViewsCongrès Internationaux d'Architecture PostModerne
None of the Above
"The house is a machine for living in"
Mies Van Der Rohe
Le Corbusier
Phillip Johnson
Walter Gropius
None of the Above
"The 'Styles' are a lie"
Mies Van Der Rohe
Le Corbusier
Phillip Johnson
Walter Gropius
None of the Above
designed about 800 buildings, during his career and many of those are houses; was familiar with the plains of the Midwest resulting in the development of a concept of openness and the use of organic materials which is called the "Prarie Style"
Frank Lloyd Wright
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Phillip Johnson
Frank Gehry
None of the Above
believed that "Buildings should fit into its natural surroundings"
Frank Lloyd Wright
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Phillip Johnson
Frank Gehry
None of the Above
designed the Guggenheim Museum in New York, built to house a collection of abstract art and opened shortly after his death in 1959.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Phillip Johnson
Frank Gehry
None of the Above
Spanish architect known to be the best representative of Catalan Architectural Modernism
Luis Barragan
Antonio Gaudi
Oscar Niemeyer
Robert Venturi
None of the Above
his works expressed firmly his individual style and are mostly found in the Catalonian capital, Barcelona that includes his magnum opus "La Sagrada Familia"
Luis Barragan
Antonio Gaudi
Oscar Niemeyer
Robert Venturi
None of the Above
his works have a highly individualized, sui generis style.
Luis Barragan
Antonio Gaudi
Oscar Niemeyer
Robert Venturi
None of the Above
an art form made of waste ceramic pieces applied as surface treatment, introduced by Antonio Gaudi
Trencadis
Recycling
Mantequilla
Ceramica
None of the Above
a pioneering figure of Art Nouveau and modernisme, or Catalan Modernism.
Luis Barragan
Antonio Gaudi
Oscar Niemeyer
Robert Venturi
None of the Above
According to Vitruvius: the length of a man's foot is _____ of his height.
one-eight
one-sixth
one-half
one-third
None of the Above
