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TOA M-03 01

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Best known as the author of De Architectura libre decem known today as "The Ten Books of Architecture"

a)

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

b)

Marcus Aurelius Pilus

c)

Marcus Caesar Pilus

d)

Augustus Vitruvius Pollio

e)

None of the Above

2.

Believed to be the first architect and engineer the world has known by name***

a)

Imhotep

b)

Nebuchadnezzar II

c)

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

d)

Hemiunu

e)

None of the Above

3.

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

a)

Basilica Porcia

b)

Basilica Sancti Petri

c)

Abu Mena Basilica and Complex

d)

Basilica de Fano

e)

None of the Above

4.

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: _____

a)

Nature

b)

Temples for the Gods

c)

The human body

d)

The human mind

e)

None of the Above

5.

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?

a)

cosmic ratio

b)

cosmic order

c)

cosmic shapes

d)

cosmic theory

e)

None of the Above

6.

Who discovered Vitruvius book "De Architectura" in 1414?

a)

Poggio Bracciolini

b)

Michelangelo Buonarotti

c)

Leonardo da Vinci

d)

Leon Battista Alberti

e)

None of the Above

7.

According to Vitruvius: what is the width of four fingers?

a)

cubit

b)

palm

c)

foot

d)

pace

e)

None of the Above

8.

According to Vitruvius: what is the width of four palms?

a)

cubit

b)

palm

c)

foot

d)

pace

e)

None of the Above

9.

According to Vitruvius: what is the width six palms?

a)

cubit

b)

palm

c)

foot

d)

pace

e)

None of the Above

10.

According to Vitruvius: what is four cubits?

a)

cubit

b)

palm

c)

foot

d)

pace

e)

None of the Above

11.

According to Vitruvius: what is man's height?

a)

four cubits

b)

two cubits

c)

eight cubits

d)

6 cubits

e)

None of the Above

12.

According to Vitruvius: the length of man's outspread arms is equal to what?

a)

his span

b)

his height

c)

eight cubits

d)

his waistline

e)

None of the Above

13.

According to Vitruvius: the distance from the hairline to the bottom of the chin is _____ of a man's height.

a)

one-half

b)

one-eighth

c)

one-fifth

d)

one-tenth

e)

None of the Above

14.

According to Vitruvius: the distance from the top of the head to the bottom of the chin is ____ of a man's height

a)

one-half

b)

one-eighth

c)

one-fifth

d)

one-tenth

e)

None of the Above

15.

According to Vitruvius: the maximum width of the shoulders is _____ of a man's height

a)

one-fifth

b)

one-fourth

c)

one-third

d)

one-half

e)

None of the Above

16.

According to Vitruvius: the distance from the middle of the chest to the top of the head is _____ of a man's height

a)

one-fifth

b)

one-fourth

c)

one-third

d)

one-half

e)

None of the Above

17.

According to Vitruvius: the distance from the elbow to the tip of the hand is _____ of a man's height.

a)

one-fifth

b)

one-fourth

c)

one-third

d)

one-half

e)

None of the Above

18.

According to Vitruvius: the distance from the elbow to the armpit is _____ of a man's height.

a)

one-eight

b)

one-sixth

c)

one-tenth

d)

one-fourth

e)

None of the Above

19.

According to Vitruvius: the length of the hand is _____ of a man's height

a)

one-eight

b)

one-sixth

c)

one-tenth

d)

one-fourth

e)

None of the Above

20.

According to Vitruvius: the distance from the bottom of the chin to the nose is _____ of the length of the head

a)

one-eight

b)

one-sixth

c)

one-half

d)

one-third

e)

None of the Above

21.

According to Vitruvius: the length of the ear is _____ of the length of the face

a)

one-eight

b)

one-sixth

c)

one-half

d)

one-third

e)

None of the Above

22.

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

a)

The Parthenon

b)

The Pantheon

c)

Basilica Sancti Petri

d)

Hagia Sophia

e)

None of the Above

23.

What is the real name of Le Corbusier?

a)

Jean-Charles-Jeanneret

b)

Jean-Édouard Jeanneret

c)

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret

d)

Charles-Édouard Le Corbusier

e)

None of the Above

24.

Le Corbusier is famous for being one of the pioneers of what?

a)

Brutalist Architecture

b)

Modern Architecture

c)

Post-Modern Architecture

d)

Art Deco Architecture

e)

None of the Above

25.

In 1908, Le Corbusier studied architecture in Vienna with who?

a)

Mies Van Der Rohe

b)

Joseph Paxton

c)

Josef Hoffman

d)

John Ruskin

e)

None of the Above

26.

After Le Corbusier's travels around Europe, and especially visiting the Parthenon, he wrote what book?

a)

Vers une Architecture

b)

De re Aedificatoria

c)

Trattato di Arquitectura

d)

Jugenstil

e)

None of the Above

27.

The result of Le Corbusier's four years of teaching, working on theoretical architectural studies using modern techniques

a)

Chandigarh

b)

Robie House

c)

Villa Savoye

d)

Dom-ino House

e)

None of the Above

28.

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.

a)

Unite d' Habitation

b)

Immeubles Villas

c)

Ville Contemporaine

d)

Dom-ino House

e)

None of the Above

29.

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

a)

Ville Contemporaine

b)

Immeubles Villas

c)

Unite d' Habitation

d)

Dom-ino House

e)

None of the Above

30.

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 _____

a)

Ville Contemporaine

b)

Immeubles Villas

c)

Unite d' Habitation

d)

La Ville Radieuse

e)

None of the Above

31.

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.

a)

Ville Contemporaine

b)

Immeubles Villas

c)

Unite d' Habitation

d)

La Ville Radieuse

e)

None of the Above

32.

Epitomizes Le Corbusier's five points of architecture

a)

Chandigarh

b)

Villa Savoye

c)

Unite d' Habitation

d)

La Ville Radieuse

e)

None of the Above

33.

reinforced concrete stilts that lifted the bulk of the structure off the ground

a)

Pilotis

b)

Free Facade

c)

Open Floor Plan

d)

Uninterrupted Views

e)

Roof Garden

34.

reinforced concrete stilts that lifted the bulk of the structure off the ground

a)

Pilotis

b)

Free Facade

c)

Open Floor Plan

d)

Uninterrupted Views

e)

Roof Garden

35.

meaning non-supporting walls that could be designed as the architect wished

a)

Pilotis

b)

Free Facade

c)

Open Floor Plan

d)

Uninterrupted Views

e)

Roof Garden

36.

meaning that the floor space was free to be configured into rooms without concern for supporting walls

a)

Pilotis

b)

Free Facade

c)

Open Floor Plan

d)

Uninterrupted Views

e)

Roof Garden

37.

meaning houses should have unhampered visual contact with its surrounding views.

a)

Pilotis

b)

Free Facade

c)

Open Floor Plan

d)

Uninterrupted Views

e)

Roof Garden

38.

Exemplified Le Corbusier's Modulor system's application

a)

Unite d' Habitation

b)

Villa Stein

c)

Chandigarh

d)

Villa Savoye

e)

None of the Above

39.

What does CIAM stand for?

a)

Customer Identity and Access Management

b)

Congress International of Architecture

c)

Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne

d)

Uninterrupted ViewsCongrès Internationaux d'Architecture PostModerne

e)

None of the Above

40.

"The house is a machine for living in"

a)

Mies Van Der Rohe

b)

Le Corbusier

c)

Phillip Johnson

d)

Walter Gropius

e)

None of the Above

41.

"The 'Styles' are a lie"

a)

Mies Van Der Rohe

b)

Le Corbusier

c)

Phillip Johnson

d)

Walter Gropius

e)

None of the Above

42.

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"

a)

Frank Lloyd Wright

b)

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

c)

Phillip Johnson

d)

Frank Gehry

e)

None of the Above

43.

believed that "Buildings should fit into its natural surroundings"

a)

Frank Lloyd Wright

b)

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

c)

Phillip Johnson

d)

Frank Gehry

e)

None of the Above

44.

designed the Guggenheim Museum in New York, built to house a collection of abstract art and opened shortly after his death in 1959.

a)

Frank Lloyd Wright

b)

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

c)

Phillip Johnson

d)

Frank Gehry

e)

None of the Above

45.

Spanish architect known to be the best representative of Catalan Architectural Modernism

a)

Luis Barragan

b)

Antonio Gaudi

c)

Oscar Niemeyer

d)

Robert Venturi

e)

None of the Above

46.

his works expressed firmly his individual style and are mostly found in the Catalonian capital, Barcelona that includes his magnum opus "La Sagrada Familia"

a)

Luis Barragan

b)

Antonio Gaudi

c)

Oscar Niemeyer

d)

Robert Venturi

e)

None of the Above

47.

his works have a highly individualized, sui generis style.

a)

Luis Barragan

b)

Antonio Gaudi

c)

Oscar Niemeyer

d)

Robert Venturi

e)

None of the Above

48.

an art form made of waste ceramic pieces applied as surface treatment, introduced by Antonio Gaudi

a)

Trencadis

b)

Recycling

c)

Mantequilla

d)

Ceramica

e)

None of the Above

49.

a pioneering figure of Art Nouveau and modernisme, or Catalan Modernism.

a)

Luis Barragan

b)

Antonio Gaudi

c)

Oscar Niemeyer

d)

Robert Venturi

e)

None of the Above

50.

According to Vitruvius: the length of a man's foot is _____ of his height.

a)

one-eight

b)

one-sixth

c)

one-half

d)

one-third

e)

None of the Above