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Modern Architecture & Design Midterm

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name of the 16th century Italian stone mason, turned

architect, who significantly influenced design in the 18th and 19th century

England and America?

a)

Andrea Palladio

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Fred Flintstone

d)

John Soane

2.

John Soane worked on the Bank of England project as architect and

clerk-of-the-works for decades.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Karl Freidrich Schinkel was both a ___ and a ___ and ___.

a)

painter

b)

designer

c)

architect

d)

all of the above

4.

This is the interior of what building as rendered by Joseph Michael

Gandy?

a)

The Bank of England in London

b)

The School for Surgery in Paris

c)

Tyringham Lodge

d)

The Houses of Parliament in London

5.

This is a museum in Berlin designed in the neo-classical idiom by Karl

Freidrich [name].

(a)  

6.

Karl Freidrich Schinkel was insistent that the neo-Classical style was

the only style for architecture, for Germany, and was the apotheosis of

design.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

This castle built for Sir Walter Scott dates from Medieval times.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

This is a view of the Pantheon.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

These two monumental buildings are designed by whom?

a)

Etienne-Louis Boullee

b)

Claude-Nicholas Ledoux

c)

Jean-Jacques Lequeu

d)

Jacques Brel

10.

What factors contributed to the success of balloon framing? There are

multiple correct answers. Check the box next to every answer you deem

correct.

a)

Inexpensive, readily available nails

b)

Local sawmills

c)

High land prices in Chicago

d)

Lack of master housewrights and carpenters in the Chicago area

e)

the invention of the hot air balloon

11.

This house in New Bedford, Massachusetts is called Rotch Cottage.

Aside from being a rather dreadful name for a house, what distinguishes

it?

a)

It is one of the best preserved houses in America of the Gothic Revival

style.

b)

The fact that it is one of the best preserved neo-Classical houses in

America

c)

That it has two chimneys

d)

That it has porches.

12.

Match the cast iron construction with its maker: Ste. Genevieve Library

a)

Henry Labrouste

b)

Abraham Darby

c)

Calvert Vaux

d)

John Nash

13.

Match the cast iron construction with its maker: The Iron Bridge across the

River Severn in England

a)

Henry Labrouste

b)

Abraham Darby

c)

Calvert Vaux

d)

John Nash

14.

Match the cast iron construction with its maker: Cast iron bridges in

Central Park, New York

a)

Henry Labrouste

b)

Abraham Darby

c)

Calvert Vaux

d)

John Nash

15.

Match the cast iron construction with its maker: The Brighton Pavilion

a)

Henry Labrouste

b)

Abraham Darby

c)

Calvert Vaux

d)

John Nash

16.

Sarah [name] was way ahead of her time. She studied architecture from

books and designed St. Mary's Church at Wreay. The style language that

she worked with was Romanesque and Saxon.

The church is a triumph of creativity and positive energy and had little to

do with the dour, punishing ecclesiastical dictates of the day.

(a)  

17.

William Butterfield designed a church called All Saints in ____ . It

adopted many of ___ and Pugin's ideas about the use of color in

building materials, inside and out, which is known as ____ .

a)

London

b)

Ruskin

c)

polychromy

d)

None of the above

18.

Owen Jones had an affection for the design potential of industry and

machines that John Ruskin absolutely did not share. Which of the

following things did Mr. Jones accomplish?

a)

Measured the Alhambra along with Joseph Goury and published their

observations after Goury's death in Spain.

b)

Wrote the book "The Stones of Venice".

c)

Designed the astonishing paint finishes for the interior of the Crystal

Palace.

d)

Published the book "The Grammar of Ornament"

e)

Measured the Temple of Dendur.

19.

This ceiling of the Alhambra is an exquisite example of Moorish

Architecture. The Moors were Muslims who made their way to Spain and

ruled there for hundreds of years.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

This man Piranese did what?

a)

Was a gifted artist and designer who influenced many contemporaries in

the late 1700s and early 1800s.

b)

Lived in Rome during the time of the Roman Empire. While there, he made

many engravings.

c)

Invented the cure for male pattern baldness

d)

Invented the Romance novel.

21.

Which one of these French architects had his Barrieres destroyed during

the French Revolution, and was himself imprisoned and very nearly

guillotined?

a)

Claude-Nicholas Ledoux

b)

Jacques Gondoin

c)

Etienne-Louis Boullee

d)

Sir John Soane

22.

Madame de Tallayrand's dress is a stunning example of the new [style

name] style. It is a reflection of the European's new found love for

Classical Rome and Greece.

(a)  

23.

This chair is what style?

a)

Biedermeier.

b)

Empire

c)

Rococo

24.

Please match the person with their accomplishment: Frank Furness

a)

He was a Philadelphia architect

b)

She started the first drawing

c)

She invented the circular saw

d)

He wrote a poem

25.

Please match the person with their accomplishment: Alice Barber Stephens

a)

He was a Philadelphia architect

b)

She started the first drawing

c)

She invented the circular saw

d)

He wrote a poem

26.

Please match the person with their accomplishment: Shaker sister Tabitha

Babbitt

a)

He was a Philadelphia architect

b)

She started the first drawing

c)

She invented the circular saw

d)

He wrote a poem

27.

Please match the person with their accomplishment: Walt Whitman

a)

He was a Philadelphia architect

b)

She started the first drawing

c)

She invented the circular saw

d)

He wrote a poem

28.

Please match the person with their accomplishments: Isambard Kingdom Brunel

a)

He was a brilliant engineer

b)

He painted scenes

c)

Wrote many books

d)

Designed the wildly poly

29.

Please match the person with their accomplishments: David Roberts

a)

He was a brilliant engineer

b)

He painted scenes

c)

Wrote many books

d)

Designed the wildly poly

30.

Please match the person with their accomplishments: John Ruskin

a)

He was a brilliant engineer

b)

He painted scenes

c)

Wrote many books

d)

Designed the wildly poly

31.

Please match the person with their accomplishments: William Butterfield

a)

He was a brilliant engineer

b)

He painted scenes

c)

Wrote many books

d)

Designed the wildly poly

32.

What distinguishes Ruskinian Gothic?

a)

A prevalence of natural forms integrated with the architecture.

b)

Monochromatic building exteriors.

c)

Buildings that have pointed arches at the windows.

d)

No answer text provided.

33.

This Philadelphia building was designed by whom?

a)

Frank Furness

b)

Thomas Eakins

c)

John McArthur

d)

Alice Barber Stephens

34.

American Federal style has which of these attributes?

a)

Plainness.

b)

Highly ornamented inside and out.

c)

Bigger windows.

d)

Brick chimneys