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WorksheetsTHEORY AND HISTORY OF PLANNING
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The remaining space in a lot after deducting the required minimum open spaces
Physical Settlement
Buildable area
Dwelling unit
Restriction
Which of the following is a long-term plan that is required of the entire local government unit in the Philippines?
Urban plan
Zoning Map Plan
Comprehensive development plan
Site plan
All of the above
Which of the following best describe the theory of the relationship of Downtown Davao?
Concentric zone
Sector
Multiple-nuclei theory
Central place theory
In planning a new building, an architect would have to look at regulations other than the zoning ordinance to find a requirement for which of the following:
The width of the loading berth
The required size of utility easement
Parking area size
Permissible roof covering
Minimum lot size
Which of the following best describe the setback from a water line?
Setback
Easement
Right-of-way
Crossing
None of the above
Which of the following best describes the criss-crossing of overhead highways, which sometimes presents a clover-leaf form?
MMDA Overpass
Flyover
Skyway
Sidewalk
One the following is the approving government unit for subdivision project development permit. Which would that be?
HLURB
HIGC
LGU
NHA
Which of the following is a best circulation design alternative for a site plan?
Wide vehicular roads
Parking on the front of the site
Provision of a porte-cochere
Separate pedestrian and vehicular circulation system
Which of the following best describe the existing condition of Balot St., Tondo?
High density residential area
Institutional area
Central Business District
Urban Decay
Which of the following would result to the best site circulation?
Planning the service entry drive separated from the automobile entry and drive
Making parking areas oversize to accommodate pedestrian circulation
Designing all two-way roads at least 24-feet wide
If land is limited, which of the following is the best way to plan parking lots?
A two-way circulation with 90-degree parking on both sides of the drive
30-degree parking on both sides of a one-way loop system
Combining service circulation with parking at 45-degree angle
90-degree parking on one side of a one-way circulation drive.
All of the above
Influential movement in the area of applied art, originating in England in the middle of 19th century under the leadership of Philip Webb and John Ruskin. They were in favor of a return to craft tradition of the middle ages and were against industrial production.
Rococo
Classicism
Renaissance
Arts & Craft Movement
The Greek council house which is covered meeting place for the democratically-elected council is called:
Bouleuterion
Thershion
Prytaneion
Diathyros
A key house agency that assist private developers to undertake low and middle income mass housing production
National Home Mortgage & Finance Corporation (NHMFC)
Home Insurance & Guarantee Corporation (HIGC)
Housing & Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB)
National Housing Authority
The Grandest Temple of all Egyptian temples, it was not built by upon one complete plan but owes its size, disposition and magnificence to the work of many Kings. Built from the 12th Dynasty to the Ptolemaic period.
Great Temple of Ammon, Karnak
The Great temple of Abu-Simbel
Temple of Queen HATSHEPSUT
Temple of Ramsesseum, Thebes
A ________ is a ________ which extends vertically from lowest portion of the wall which adjoins two living units up to a minimum height of 0.30 meters above the highest portion of the roof and extends horizontally 0.30 meters beyond the outermost edge of the abutting living units?
Partywall; block
Firewall; lotline wall
Firewall; fireblock
Lotline wall; block
The value of extra work or change in construction plans by the owner.
Unit prices provided credit does not exceed 10 percent of original contract
Actual direct cost plus 10 percent for profit, overhead and tax
Value included in contingencies
Estimate and acceptance in lump sum
Refers to the most reasonable price of land and shelter based on the needs and financial capability of “program beneficiaries and appropriate financial schemes” (RA 7279).
Financial range
Affordable cost
House rental wage range
Lower housing rate
Architectural programming is one of the architect’s services that falls under:
Pre Design
Design
Design-Build
Specialized Services
In a PERT CPM, ________ is a starting node to two or more activities.
Concurrent node
Merge node
Simultaneous nodes
Burst node
It refers to contracts or arrangements involving the transfer of systematic knowledge for the manufacture if a product.
Technology transfer
Transfer of Record
The father of modern picture books of Architecture.
Andrea Palladio
Leon Battista Alberti
Philibert De L’orme
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
“The man of learning… can fearlessly look down upon the troublesome accidents of fortune. But he who thinks himself entrenched in defense not of learning but of luck, moves one slippery path, struggling though life unsteadily and insecurely.”
New Architecture
Ten books of Architecture by Marcus Vitruvius
Space, Time and Architecture by Sigfried Gideon
The Poetry of Architecture by John Ruskin
It was the first law passed by the national assembly in 1921 where the maestros de obra or the master builders are required to register as architects?
Engineers and Architect’s Law Act no. 2986
Engineers and Architect’s Law Act no. 2896
Engineers and Architect’s Law Act no. 9286
Engineers and Architect’s Law Act no. 8296
Tomb of Atreus, a noted example of the tholos type of tomb is also known as:
Mausoleum, Helicanrassos
Tomb of Clytemnestra
Tomb of Agamemnon
Therilson, Megapolis
The memorial column built in the form of tall Doric order and made entirely of marble is:
Column of Antoninus Pius
Trajan’s Column
Column of Marcus Aurelius
Column of Diocletian
Early type of settlement in America taken after the “baug” (military town) and “fauborg” (citizen’s town) of the medieval ages.
The European Planned City
Medieval Bastide
Medieval Organic City
Laws of the Indies Towns
It is the eclectic style of domestic architecture of the 1870’s and the 1880’s in England and the USA and actually based on country house and cottage Elizabeth architecture which was characterized by a blending of Tudor Gothic, English Renaissance and colonial elements in the USA:
Mannerist Phase
Queen Anne style
Jacobean Architecture
Stuart Architecture
Le Corbusier planned a high density building that was a “super building” that contained 337 dwellings in only acres of land. What is the structure that supposed to be located in Marseilles?
Unite d’ Habitation
Brasilia
The mile High tower
Ecumenopolis
When the owner hires an Architect of a firm to coordinate the whole range of Comprehensive Architectural Services, it shall constitute?
Design-Build
Labor Supervision
Project Management
Construction Service
Which article is NOT included in the Building Contract?
Time of Completion and Liquidated Damages
Performance & Payment Bonds
Cost Records
Payments
He is a registered & licensed architect, who is academically and professionally qualified, & with exceptional or recognized expertise or specialization in any branch of architecture;
BA full time construction inspector hired by owner assisting in the supervision of the work.
Project Representative
Engineer
Contractor
Architect
After ________ substantial completion of contract work, the architect shall inspect the project & issue certificate of completion after certification, the contractor will finish outstanding work during period of making good of all known defect of 60 days.
85%
98%
95%
90%
Which of the following is NOT the architect’s responsibility in relation to the contractor?
The Architect shall immediately upon his personal knowledge and inspection, reject or condemn materials, equipment or workmanship which are not in conformity with the Contract Documents in order not to cause Unnecessary delay and additional expense to the Contractor
The Architect shall not knowingly call upon the Contractor to correct or remedy oversights or errors in the Contract Documents to the Contractor’s financial advantage.
The Architect shall give the contractor every reasonable aid to enable him to fully understand the contents of the Contract Documents by furnishing clear, definite and consistent information in all pertinent contract documents to avoid unnecessary mistakes that may involve extra costs to the Contractor.
The Architect shall consider the needs and stipulation of the Contractor and the effect of his work upon the life and well-being of the public and community as a whole
In methods of compensation, if the Architect as Project Manager performs regular architectural services for the same project, he is compensated separately for these services as stipulated in what UAP Documents?
UAP Doc 201
UAP Doc 202
UAP Doc 203
UAP Doc 204
The Contractor shall submit the following before Final Payment is to be released except for:
3 copies of directory of Panel boards with list of circuits, instructions and Manuals for Operating and Maintenance of Fixture and Equipment and Keying Schedule
Guarantee Bond equivalent to 40% of the Contract Price covering a period of one year after the Final Acceptance of the Work.
Certificate of final Building occupancy.
Original and 3 sets of prints of As-Built Drawings of the finished project.
Within how many months shall be the release of Retention from date of Final Payment?
3 months
4 months
5 months
2 months
It is the first Development Garden City where it is a combination of landscaping, informal street layouts, and main axis focusing on town center.
Savannah
Welwyn
Letchworth
Hampstead Garden Suburbs
A British pioneered in regional Planning for the Doncaster area (1920-1922) and East Kent; Involved in greater London Plan; Use of open space as structuring element.
Clarence Perry
Leslie Patrick Abercrombie
Henry Wright
Andres Duany
He is remembered for his “Ideal Cities” – star shaped plans with street radiating from central point, usually proposed for a church, palace or castle.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leon Battista Alberti
Pierre Charles L’ Enfant
Sir Christopher Wren
Whose theory is the explanation of residential land uses in terms of wedge-shaped sectors radial to the city center along established lines of transportation?
Homer Hoyt
Kevin Lynch
Ernest Burgess
None of these
Published the book called “Fields, Factories and Workshops; or Industry Combined with Agriculture with manual work”.
Antonio Sant’elia
Don Soria y Mata
Eugene Henard
Peter Kropotkin
This services giver full meaning to what the professional calls comprehensive Architectural Service. It wraps-up the whole range of architectural services.
Pre-Design Services
Design- Build Services
Post-Construction Services
Comprehensive Architectural Services
45. Condominium & Subdivision, Bridges Protective Law.
PD 1185
PD 1185
PD 957
RA 545
The approved form of security furnished by the Contractor as a guarantee of good faith on the part of the contractor to execute the work in accordance with terms of the Contract.
Guarantee Bond
Contract
Performance Bond
Payment Bond
An English Architect who prepared plan for London i.e., St. Peter ‘s and St. Paul Cathedral; Proposed a Network of Avenues connecting the main features of London.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leon Battista Alberti
Pierre Charles L’ Enfant
Sir Christopher Wren
The sacred enclosure found in the highest part of a Greek city is called:
Peribolas
Pteroma
Temenos
Corps de Logis
The architect who claimed that: “The ultimate goal of the new architecture was the composite but inseparable work of an art, in which the old diving line between monumental and decorative elements will have disappeared forever.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
Le Corbusier
Walter Gropius
Mies Van de Rohe
The architect who said that the exterior of the building is the result of the interior.
Mies Van de Rohe
Le Corbusier
Frank Lloyd Wright
William Ruskin
This means, an entities, agencies, organization & the like that have been accredited/registered with the Board of Architecture of the Professional Regulation Commission to deliver seminars, lectures, & other continuing Professional Education Modules for Architects, other than the IAPOA which is automatically accredited by the Board of Architecture?
United Architects of the Philippines
CPD Provider
Integrated Accredited Professional Organization of Architects
PIA
BP 220: The parking requirement for multi-family dwelling is
1 slot/family dwelling
1 slot/2 family dwelling
The building that serve as a senate house for the chief dignitaries of the city and as a palace where distinguished visitors and citizens might be entertained.
Bouleuterion
Thershion
Prytaneion
Diathyros
It is a traditional house that was called binangiyan. It was a single room dwelling elevated at 1.50 meters from the ground; the floor were made of hard wood like narra which rested on 3 floor joist which in turn were supported by transverse girders.
Kankanay
Badjao
Bontoc
Kalinga
Often enclosed and secluded the street, whose high density and variety of planning conveys a garden image. It sometimes includes flower planters and a water feature and usually supplies a variety of seating possibilities.
City plaza
Garden Oasis
City square
Street plaza
The emergency hideout found directly behind the headboard of the Sultan’s bed.
Biik
Bilik
Beak
Bae
The tower atop the torogan where the princess and the ladies in waiting hide during the occasions.
Lamin
Lampin
Apin
Lakip
It is the second phase of English-Gothic Architecture where elaborated ornamental vaulting, and refinement of stonecutting techniques.
Perpendicular style
Rayonnant style
Decorated style
None of these
Enclosure formed by huge stones planted on the ground in circular form.
Menhir
Cromlech
Dolmen
Tumulus
PD 957: In Design Standards for Residential Condominium Projects, offsite parking is allowed but must NOT be more how many meters away from the building it serves?
31 meters
50 meters
100 meters
110 meters
Under PD 1096 the executive officer of OBO appointed by the secretary to enforce the provision of the code in the field as well as the enforcement or orders and decisions made pursuant thereto.
Architect
Urban Planner
Building official
City Engineer
Which of the following situation would trigger the owner to suspend work?
Bankruptcy-Declared by BIR
Insubordination
Non-payment of contactors debt/non superintendence of contractor
All of the above
Contract Documents shall be the property of the
Architect
Owner
Contractor
It is instructions that supplement or modify drawings, specs, & general conditions of the contract.
Special Provisions
Supplementary Specs
Written Notice
Instruction to Bidders
Boiler Plate is essential to the production of good construction documents as are the drawings or the specifications. All are included forms except
Invitation to Bid
Wage Scales
Bond Form
Building Permit
A style in the architecture Italy I the second half of the 16th century and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Europe. It uses classical elements in an unconventional manner.
Illusionism
Mannerism
Palladianism
Abstract
A habitable room for 1 family with facilities for living, sleeping, cooking & eating
Physical Settlement
Buildable area
Dwelling unit
Restriction
A revival style based on the buildings and publications of the 6th century architect marked by ancient Greek and Roman Architectural forms.
National Romanticism
Mannerism
Palladianism
Purism
Refer to as a development of a community.
Urban blight
Urbanization
Suburbanization
Urban development
Social Contact and interaction in a pavilion would be promoted most by which of the following design decision?
Making the dimensions of the pavilion small enough so the anticipated number of users would cross into each other's personal distance,
Designing benches around the support columns so people would have a place to sit and talk
Organizing the cooking and servicing area distinct from the dining area and entrance
Providing an informal variety of spaces of different sizes, locations and uses.
Which of the following would probably not be considered an element of a city's image?
A group of houses
A freeway
A neighborhood bar
A rice paddies
A monument, fixed object, or marker used to designate the location of a land boundary on the ground.
Nodes
Landmark
Path
Edge
The rough equivalent of the present tenement cities that existed in ancient Rome
Insula
Domus
Bahay-Kubo
Bouleterion
A land development decision is also what kind of decision the orderly arrangement of urban streets & public places.
City Planning
Urban Renewal
A profession which falls between planning & architecture.
City Planning
Urban Renewal
Urban Design
Agricultural Surplus
The container of man, which consist of both the natural & man made or artificial
Physical Settlement
Buildable area
Dwelling unit
Restriction
What is the longest day in a year? Also called the summer solstice.
June 21
December 21
September 22
March 20
What is the shortest day in a year? Also called the winter solstice.
June 21
December 21
September 22
March 20
The earth is tilted on what degree?
22° 50'
23° 47'
24° 45'
25° 47'
In 1573, King Philip II proclaimed this law that established uniform standards and planning procedures for colonial settlements. This law provides guidelines for site selection, layout and dimensioning of streets and squares, the location of civic and religious buildings, open space, cultivation and pasturing lands, and even the main procedural phases of planning and construction. The plaza complex is a result of this ordinances.
Laws of Indies
Laws of Loss
BP 344
PD 1096
Who was the first person to suggest the possible kinship between Gothic and Muslim Architecture?
James Hobain
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Latrobe
Sir Christopher Wren
What historic style of architecture contributed the architectural moldings such as cyma recta, cyma reversa, ovolo, etc.?
Byzantine
Early Christian
Chinese
Greek
Having no saturation and therefore no hue, as white, black, or gray.
Monochromatic
Achromatic
Polychromatic
Brightness
Having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
Monochromatic
Achromatic
Polychromatic
Brightness
Having only one color, as red, yellow and blue regarded as generating all other colors.
Monochromatic
Achromatic
Polychromatic
Brightness
What is the color for Residential in zoning?
(a)
Which of the following characterizes a “balai”?
chief function is eating/cooking activities
requires professional help from architects/engineers to build
design harmonizes with the hill, the sea and mountain
Generally multi-room dwelling, light and airy.
Which is the most sacred part of a church or temple, which is a holy or consecrated place?
transept
scene
sanctuary
shrine
Who is the author of the compilation of “The Five Orders of Architecture”?
Antonio de Sangallo
Jacopo Sansovino
Raphael Santi
Giacomo da Vignola
To whom are space frame systems and lamella construction attributed as contribution to architecture?
Eugene Freyssinet
Pier Luigi Nervi
Buckminster Fuller
Richard Navarro Bautista
What art principle shows the relationships of architectural elements and is usually derived from the human body or its spare parts as the basis of measurement system?
contrast
balance
volume
scale
Which of the following explains the classification of structures in relation to architecture?
used for architect’s particular aesthetic thought
all listed
reflects non-efficient materials
None of the above.
Who created the Dymaxion House, the first “machine for living” – which is a portable home made from metal alloys and plastics and where all necessary mechanical systems and devices are placed in the center of the building, with the living spaces around it—open to the arrangement tastes of the owner?
Moshe Safdie
Frank Lloyd Wright
Buckminster Fuller
Louis Kahn
What was the first modern architecture school in the world?
Chicago School of Arts
Bauhaus
Ash Can School
Ecole de Beaux Arts
It is the illustrado territory, the enclave of the rich and powerful in the Arrabales. It is also the manifestation of folk religiosity.
Quaipo
Binondo
Santa Cruz
Sampaloc
Which of the following factors should be considered in color selection as affected by light?
functions of room
all listed items
lighting arrangements
location
What will be the result if two complementary colors are mixed in proper amounts in the pigment pot?
black
white
brown
gray
Which of the following relates to the basic concept of territoriality?
What is another term for human engineering which is applied science concerned with characteristics of people that need to be considered designing and arranging things that they use in order that people and things will interact most effectively and safely?
ergonomics
ertogenics
ecology
proxemics
