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WorksheetsModern Architecture & Design Midterm
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 19mins
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?
Andrea Palladio
Thomas Jefferson
Fred Flintstone
John Soane
John Soane worked on the Bank of England project as architect and
clerk-of-the-works for decades.
True
False
Karl Freidrich Schinkel was both a ___ and a ___ and ___.
painter
designer
architect
all of the above
This is the interior of what building as rendered by Joseph Michael
Gandy?
The Bank of England in London
The School for Surgery in Paris
Tyringham Lodge
The Houses of Parliament in London
This is a museum in Berlin designed in the neo-classical idiom by Karl
Freidrich [name].
(a)
Karl Freidrich Schinkel was insistent that the neo-Classical style was
the only style for architecture, for Germany, and was the apotheosis of
design.
True
False
This castle built for Sir Walter Scott dates from Medieval times.
True
False
This is a view of the Pantheon.
True
False
These two monumental buildings are designed by whom?
Etienne-Louis Boullee
Claude-Nicholas Ledoux
Jean-Jacques Lequeu
Jacques Brel
What factors contributed to the success of balloon framing? There are
multiple correct answers. Check the box next to every answer you deem
correct.
Inexpensive, readily available nails
Local sawmills
High land prices in Chicago
Lack of master housewrights and carpenters in the Chicago area
the invention of the hot air balloon
This house in New Bedford, Massachusetts is called Rotch Cottage.
Aside from being a rather dreadful name for a house, what distinguishes
it?
It is one of the best preserved houses in America of the Gothic Revival
style.
The fact that it is one of the best preserved neo-Classical houses in
America
That it has two chimneys
That it has porches.
Match the cast iron construction with its maker: Ste. Genevieve Library
Henry Labrouste
Abraham Darby
Calvert Vaux
John Nash
Match the cast iron construction with its maker: The Iron Bridge across the
River Severn in England
Henry Labrouste
Abraham Darby
Calvert Vaux
John Nash
Match the cast iron construction with its maker: Cast iron bridges in
Central Park, New York
Henry Labrouste
Abraham Darby
Calvert Vaux
John Nash
Match the cast iron construction with its maker: The Brighton Pavilion
Henry Labrouste
Abraham Darby
Calvert Vaux
John Nash
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)
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 ____ .
London
Ruskin
polychromy
None of the above
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?
Measured the Alhambra along with Joseph Goury and published their
observations after Goury's death in Spain.
Wrote the book "The Stones of Venice".
Designed the astonishing paint finishes for the interior of the Crystal
Palace.
Published the book "The Grammar of Ornament"
Measured the Temple of Dendur.
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.
True
False
This man Piranese did what?
Was a gifted artist and designer who influenced many contemporaries in
the late 1700s and early 1800s.
Lived in Rome during the time of the Roman Empire. While there, he made
many engravings.
Invented the cure for male pattern baldness
Invented the Romance novel.
Which one of these French architects had his Barrieres destroyed during
the French Revolution, and was himself imprisoned and very nearly
guillotined?
Claude-Nicholas Ledoux
Jacques Gondoin
Etienne-Louis Boullee
Sir John Soane
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)
This chair is what style?
Biedermeier.
Empire
Rococo
Please match the person with their accomplishment: Frank Furness
He was a Philadelphia architect
She started the first drawing
She invented the circular saw
He wrote a poem
Please match the person with their accomplishment: Alice Barber Stephens
He was a Philadelphia architect
She started the first drawing
She invented the circular saw
He wrote a poem
Please match the person with their accomplishment: Shaker sister Tabitha
Babbitt
He was a Philadelphia architect
She started the first drawing
She invented the circular saw
He wrote a poem
Please match the person with their accomplishment: Walt Whitman
He was a Philadelphia architect
She started the first drawing
She invented the circular saw
He wrote a poem
Please match the person with their accomplishments: Isambard Kingdom Brunel
He was a brilliant engineer
He painted scenes
Wrote many books
Designed the wildly poly
Please match the person with their accomplishments: David Roberts
He was a brilliant engineer
He painted scenes
Wrote many books
Designed the wildly poly
Please match the person with their accomplishments: John Ruskin
He was a brilliant engineer
He painted scenes
Wrote many books
Designed the wildly poly
Please match the person with their accomplishments: William Butterfield
He was a brilliant engineer
He painted scenes
Wrote many books
Designed the wildly poly
What distinguishes Ruskinian Gothic?
A prevalence of natural forms integrated with the architecture.
Monochromatic building exteriors.
Buildings that have pointed arches at the windows.
No answer text provided.
This Philadelphia building was designed by whom?
Frank Furness
Thomas Eakins
John McArthur
Alice Barber Stephens
American Federal style has which of these attributes?
Plainness.
Highly ornamented inside and out.
Bigger windows.
Brick chimneys
