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Famous architects and their dictums

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

“Strength, Beauty, and Unity ”

a)

a. Michelangelo

b)

b. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

c)

c. Mimar Sinan

d)

d. Christopher Wren

2.

“Make big plan; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die”

a)

a. Louis Kahn

b)

b. Walter Gropius

c)

c. Daniel Burnham

d)

d. Robert Venturi

3.

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen”

a)

a. Zaha Hadid

b)

b. Frank Lloyd Wright

c)

c. Antoni Gaudi

d)

d. Richard Rogers

4.

“It is not an individual act, architecture you have to consider your client, only out of that can you produce great architecture you cannot work in the abstract”

a)

a. Norman Foster

b)

b. Ioh Ming Pei

c)

c. Renzo Piano

d)

d. Oscar Niemeyer

5.

“The home should be the treasure chest of living”

a)

a. Le Corbusier

b)

b. Michael Graves

c)

c. Steven Holl

d)

d. David Adjaye

6.

“Creating Architecture that is both modern and undeniably Filipino”

a)

a. Leandro Locsin

b)

b. Luis Zaragosa Araneta

c)

c. W.V Coscoluella

d)

d. William Parsons

7.

“I design Filipino”

a)

a. Fernando Hizon Ocampo

b)

b. Fernando Ocampo

c)

c. Gabriel Formoso

d)

d. Francisco ‘Bobby’ Mañosa

8.

“The structure should not only look good but must also be made well”

a)

a. Federico Ilustre

b)

b. Carlos Santos Viola

c)

c. Ildefonso Santos

d)

d. Carlos Argüelles

9.

“The structure must be well oriented”

a)

a. Jorge Ramos

b)

b. Pablo Antonio

c)

c. Caesar Homero Concio

d)

d. David Nestor

10.

“A truly great work of architecture must express harmony, simplicity, organic beauty natural integrity, and beauty”

a)

a. Antonio Sedano

b)

b. Pablo Antonio

c)

c. Antonio Sindiong

d)

d. Antonio Toledo

11.

'Forms follows function”

a)

a. Louis Sullivan

b)

b. Eero Saarinen

c)

c. Rem Koolhaas

d)

d. Santaigo Calatrava

12.

“God is in the details”

a)

a. Jean Nouvel

b)

b. Peter Zumthor

c)

c. Daniel Libeskind

d)

d. Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

13.

“All Architects want to live beyond their deaths”

a)

a. Peter Eisenman

b)

b. Alvaro Siza

c)

c. Phillip Johnson

d)

d. Peter Behrens

14.

“The city must be subject to growth, decay and renewal”

a)

a. Arata Isozaki

b)

b. B.V. Doshi

c)

c. Kenzo Tange

d)

d. Jeanne Gang

15.

“I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future”

a)

a. Shigeru Ban

b)

b. Toyo Ito

c)

c. Moshe Safdie

d)

d. Tadao Ando

16.

“Nothing that is not practical can be Beautiful”

a)

Felix Candela

b)

Otto Wagner

c)

Marcel Breuer

d)

Peter Behrens

17.

“Ornament Equals Crime”

a)

Victor Horta

b)

Buckminster Fuller

c)

Adolf Loos

d)

Cass Gilbert

18.

“Beauty is based on the perfect mastery of all scientific, technological, and formal pre-requisites of the task”

a)

Walter Gropius

b)

Philip Johnson

c)

Louis Khan

d)

Kisho Korukawa

19.

“Simplicity & Functionality is the Essences of Design”

a)

Robert Maillat

b)

Charles Mackintosh

c)

Benjamin H. Latrobe

d)

Wells Wintemute Coates

20.

“Form Accommodates Function”

a)

Erich Mendelsohn

b)

Robert Charles Venture

c)

Oscar Niemeyer

d)

Henry H. Richardson

21.

“ _________ is in the details.

a)

a. Art

b)

b. God

c)

c. Nature

d)

d. History

22.

“ To create, one must first _________ everything”

a)

a. Unique

b)

b. Question

c)

c. Creative

d)

d. Design

23.

“ Architecture is about _________”

a)

a. Beauty

b)

b. People

c)

c. Art

d)

d. Nature

24.

“There are ________, so why stick to one?"

a)

a. 360 degrees

b)

b. 180 degrees

c)

c. 90 degrees

d)

d. 45 degrees

25.

“The best advice I’ve received is to be __________. The best artist do that.”

a)

a. Architect

b)

b. Yours

c)

c. Love

d)

d. Yourself