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What Makes Buildings Beautiful?

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
Date
1.

According to the video, what is the quality that makes some buildings and urban environments attractive?

a)

Functionality

b)

Innovation

c)

Beauty

d)

Size

2.

What did the 2011 survey in the United States find the strongest correlation with, in terms of a place's attributes?

a)

Physical beauty

b)

Basic services

c)

Safety

d)

Education

3.

According to the video, what is the part of the brain that processes fear and can cause a fight-or-flight reaction?

a)

Hippocampus

b)

Cerebellum

c)

Amygdala

d)

Thalamus

4.

What is the term used to describe nested structures that are self-similar on multiple levels of scale, often found in nature?

a)

Ornament

b)

Curves

c)

Symmetry

d)

Fractals

5.

According to the video, what do humans seem to strongly prefer above asymmetry?

a)

Curves

b)

Fractals

c)

Ornament

d)

Symmetry

6.

What did the study by psychologist David Halpern discover about the preferences of architecture students and non-architecture students?

a)

They had similar preferences

b)

Non-architecture students preferred traditional buildings

c)

Architecture students and non-architecture students had opposite preferences

d)

Architecture students preferred modern buildings

7.

According to the video, what is the word used to describe the love of nature and the inherent preferences for natural shapes and features?

a)

Fractals

b)

Symmetry

c)

Biophilia

d)

Ornament

8.

What did the study using eye tracking technology reveal about the shapes and features that humans naturally like?

a)

Animals, plants, faces, and humans

b)

Organised complexity

c)

Plain facades

d)

Sharp angles

9.

According to the video, what do humans need a certain amount of from their environment to function in a normal way?

a)

Informational load

b)

Symmetry

c)

Curves

d)

Ornament

10.

What did the analysis of the Louvre building in Paris reveal about its features?

a)

Lacks symmetry

b)

Lacks ornament

c)

Displays symmetry, curves, and ornament

d)

Lacks fit for purpose