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1.

What building element did the ancient Egyptians invent to illuminate temple interiors?
Clerestory

2.

The so-called air shaft from the great pyramids king chamber which is due south is directed to what
stellar constellation?
a. Draco
b. Orions Belt
c. The Big Deeper
d. Ursa Major

3.

A monument erected in memory of one not interred in or under it. A false tomb.
Cenotaph

4.

What is the angle of inclination of the bottom part of the Bent Pyramid in Dashur?
a. 43 deg.
b. 45.20 deg.
c. 50.27 deg.
d. 54.15 deg.

5.

A stone-built subterranean tomb of the Mycenaean civilization consisting of a circular chamber

covered by a corbelled dome and entered by a walled passage through a hillside.
a. Beehive tomb
b. Dolmen
c. Dromos
d. Tumulus

6.

The principal room of an early Anatolian or Aegean house.

a. Nympaheum
b. Megaron
c. Naos

d. Thalamus

A Greek senate building or council house.

a. Bouleterion
b. Eclesiaterion

d. Prytaneion

7.
8.

c. Ephebeum

The most important monument of the Ionic order located in the Acropolis, Athens.
Erechtheion

9.

The finest manifestations of the Doric temple, designed by Libon of Elis, grand in its dimension but
simpler than the Parthenon.
a. Temple of Apollo, Didyma
c. Temple of Zeus, Olympia
b. Temple of Artemis, Ephesus
d. The Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens

10. Having an intercolumniation of 2.25 diameters.

a. Araeostyle
b. Pycnostyle

c. Eustyle

d. Distyle

11. The proportion of the Greek Corinthian column?

a. 4-6.5 D
b. 5-7 D

c. 9D

d. 10D

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12. The horizontal part of a classical entablature, between the cornice and architrave often decorated
with sculpture in low relief.

EFrieze
13. The principal temple of the ancients Etruscans.
a. The Capitoline temple
c. The Temple of Hercules
b. The Pantheon
d. The Temple of Mars Ultor
14. The largest Forum in Rome.
a. Forum of Caesar
b. Forum of Hadrian

c. Forum Romanum

d. Forum of Trajan

15. Official architect to Trajan (AD 97 117), accompanying him in his military campaigns and designing
or inspiring almost all the buildings erected under him.
a. Anthemius
c. Hippodamus of Miletus
b. Apollodorus of Damascus
d. Rabirius
16. The Roman masonry formed of small rough stones set irregularly in mortar, sometimes traversed by
beds of bricks or tiles.
a. Opus alexandrinum
b. Opus incertum
c. Opus reticulatum
d. Opus sectile
17. A monumental memorial arch erected astride the line of March of a victorious army during its
triumphal procession.
Triumphal Arch
18. The placing of one order of column above another, usually with the more elaborate orders at the top.
a. Complement
b. Intercolumniation
c. Supercolumnation
d. Superimposition

19. In early Christian architecture, what Roman building became the model for its churches?
a. Basilica
b. Cathedral
c. Exedra
d. Temple
20. What is the most pronounced feature of church facades of Romanesque architecture?
a. Ornamental arcades b. Ribbed vaults
c. Striped marbles

d. Wheel window

21. A privileged guild of architects and builders as well as sculptors originating in Como, Italy, which carried out
church building and characteristic decoration during the 11th century.
a. Comacine masters
c. Iconoplasts
b. Knights of Hospitaller
d. Maestro de Obra dela Como
22. What is the favorite molding of the Spanish Romanesque?
a. Billet
b. Fret
c. Nail head

d. Rope

23. A decorative row of arches applied to a wall as a decorative element found in Romanesque.
a. Blind arcade
b. False arcade
c. Pendentive
d. Spandrel
24. An indigenous Scandinavian church of the 12C and 13C, having a timber frame, plank walls a tiered
steeply pitched roof windows.
a. Basilica
b. Chapter house
c. Martyria
d. Stave church
Martyria church or other edifice built at a site, especially a tomb, associated with a Christian martyr or saint

25. The outer wall of a castle or the courtyard enclosed by it.

a. Bailey
b. Enceinte
c. Escarp

d. Motte

Enceinte (from Latin incinctus: girdled, surrounded), is a French term used technically in fortification for the inner ring of
fortifications surrounding a town or a concentric castle.[1]
escarp The inner wall of a ditch or trench dug around a fortification. tr.v. escarped, escarping, escarps.

26. The place where the pointed arch was first seen and considered as the birthplace of Gothic architecture.

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a. Ile de France

b. Nimes

c. Paris

27. What country whose Gothic cathedrals are mostly built isolated from towns?
a. Britain
b. France
c. Italy

d. Venice

d. Spain

28. Ornamented timber roofs are one of the glories of the Gothic style in what country?
a. England
b. France
c. Italy
d. Scandinavia
29. Manueline Architecture, so named after King Manuel is the last phase (1495-1521) of Gothic
architecture in what country?
a. Brazil
b. France
c. Portugal
d. Spain
Manueline (architectural style), particularly rich and lavish style of architectural ornamentation indigenous to Portugal in the early
16th century.

30. Since walls in Gothic churches were less necessary as supports because of the buttress system, this
became a contribution to the invention of this material used to adorn window walls and as the chief interior
decoration?
a. Mosaic
b. Frescoes
c. Stained glass
d. Tracery
31. The final phase of English gothic architecture prevailing from the late 14 th to early 16th century,
characterized by perpendicular tracery, fine intricate stonework, and elaborate fan vaults.
a. Decorated
b. Geometric
c. Rayonnant
d. Rectilinear
32. A chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, usually located behind the high altar of a cathedral at the
extremity of the apse.
a. Lady chapel
b. Mary chapel
c. Rosary chapel
d. Virgin chapel
33. The phase of change in western European renaissance architecture (1750c.1830). Renewed
inspiration was sought from ancient Greek and Roman and from medieval architecture.
Antiquarian, Neoclassicism
34. A transitional style in European architecture in the late 16C, particularly in Italy, characterized by the
unconventional use of classical elements.
Mannerism

35. Romes first outstanding architect of the Renaissance. He made the first designs for the new S.
Peters at Rome, and inaugurated the rebuilding of the Vatican.
a. Andrea Palladio
b. Donato Bramante
c. Fra Giacondo
d. Il Cronaca
36. Donato Bram ante was the first commissioned architect for the St. Peter in Rome and it was planned
in a:
a. Greek cross
b. Basilica type
c. Maltese cross
d. Latin cross
37. A method of forming stonework with roughened surfaces and recessed joints, principally employed
in Renaissance buildings and mostly exclusive for the wealthy during that time.
a. Intercolumniation
c. Rustication
b. Long and short strap work
d. Stylar
In the history of art and design, the term strapwork refers to a stylised representation in ornament of strips
or bands of curlingleather, parchment or metal cut into elaborate shapes, with piercings and often
interwoven. Strapwork is a frequent element ofgrotesques -- arabesque or candelabra figures filled with
fantastical creatures, garlands and other elements -- which were a frequent decorative motif in 16th
century Mannerism, and revived in the 19th century and which may appear on walls -- painted, in frescos,
carved in wood, or molded in plaster or stucco -- or in graphic work.[1]
38. The greatest Spanish Renaissance architect, whose majestic, cold style was favored by King Philip
II.
a. Diego de Torralva
b. Juan de Herrera
c. Narciso Tome
d. Pedro de Ribera

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39. The Sun King; the King of France (1643-1715) and a great patron of art esp. in the later
Renaissance. The Louver and Versailles were monuments of his lavish expenditure on architecture
and the decorative arts
a. Henry IV
b. Louis XIV
c. Louis XV
d. Napoleon Bonaparte
40. The principal story of large building, as a palace or villa with formal reception and dining rooms
usually one flight above the ground floor.
a. Atrium
b. Cortile
c. Loggia
d. Piano noble
41. Description of buildings of the 16C & 17C that were built with strong timber foundation, supports,
knees, and studs and whose walls were filled in which plaster or masonry materials such as brick?
a. Baloonframe
b. Half-timbered
c. Rambler
d. Saltbox
42. The greatest British architect of the later 18th century. The originator of the elegant form of
neoclassicism prevalent in Britain. He is more brilliant as a decorator and furniture designer. He also
developed the use of color in interior decoration.
a. Lancelot Capability Brown
c. Richard Norman Shaw
b. Robert Adam
d. Sir Robert Smirke
43. A secular version of Gothic architecture, as in the older colleges of Cambridge and Oxford.
Collegiate Gothic
44. The wall in a mosque in which the niche or decorative panel is set oriented to Mecca.
a. Sahn
b. Mihrab
c. Mimbar
d. Minaret
45. Buddhist stupas are built to house what objects?
Relics
46. A tower of Hindu temple usually tapered convexly and capped by a bulbous stone finial.
a. Amalaka
b. Gopuram
c. Mandapa
d. Sikhara
47. The Chinese book of standard work on architecture, The Method of Architecture.
a. Lee kam keeh
b. Shah ming te
c. Tang lee poy
d. Ying tsao fa shih
48. The temple in Thailand built to record the 2000th death anniversary of the Buddha.
a. Wata-da-ge
b. Wat Jet Yot
c. Wat Lorburu
d. Wat Mahadatau
49. In Buddhist architecture in Burma (Myanmar), what is the local term for stupas?
a. Kyaung
b. Pitakat-taik
c. Thein
d. Zedi
50. One of the prodigous monuments of the last phase of the Khmer civilization at its classical period.
Built by Suryavarman II as a temple to the god-king image, as a monument to himself and as his
own sculpture.
a. Angkor Wat
c. The Temple of Heaven
b. The Great Stupa, Sanchi
d. Shwe Dagon Pagoda
51. The mother of Mesoamericas civilization and the most mystifying?
a. Chavins
b. Incas
c. Mohicans
ancient Olmec, the "mother culture" of civilization, was Mixe-Zoque
52. The principal temple- pyramid of the sacred Teotihuacn in Mexico.
a. Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl
c. Pyramid of the Moon
b. Pyramid of the Earth
d. Pyramid of the Sun

d. Olmecs

53. In Mesoamerican architecture, an outer wall that slopes inward as it rises. It first appeared c.800 BC
at the Olmec site of La Venta, in Tabasco State, Mexico?
a. Maksoorah
b. Sahn
c. Tablero
d. Talud
54. The capital city of the Incas dedicated to the sun God and has numerous examples of superb
masonry construction?

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a. Chicken Itza

b. Machu Pichu

c. Teotihuacn

55. The prevalent building materials of Victorian architecture.

a. Concrete and masonry b. Stones and iron
c. Stone and brick
glass

d. Palenque
d.

Steel

and

56. What 19th century style of architecture in the US wherein the architects incorporated in their
buildings complex electrical systems, elevators, mechanical communication devices and
sophisticated bathroom and kitchen equipments?
a. Beaux Arts
b. Chicago School
c. Modernism
d. Prairie School
57. A decorative movement in European architecture heralded in the 1880s and flourishing strongly in
the period 1893-1907. Its particular characteristics were a flowing and sinuous naturalistic ornament
and avoidance of historical architectural traits.
Art Nouveau
58. A French scholar architect and theorist that developed new and highly influential ideas on the
Gothic style as a style of rational construction. He advocated the use of new materials and
techniques in construction and engineering.
a. Eugene Emmanuel Violet-le-duc
c. Karl Friedrich Schinkel
b. Jean Nicolas Louis Durand
d. Victor Horta
59. A movement in architecture in the 1950s emphasizing the use of basic building processes
especially of cast in place concrete with no apparent concern for visual amenity.
Brutalism
60. What 19C style of architecture in the US wherein the architects incorporated in their buildings
complex electrical systems, elevators, mechanical communication devices and sophisticated
bathroom and kitchen equipments?
a. Beaux Arts
b. Chicago of School
c. Modernism
d. Prairie
The term "Beaux Arts" is the approximate English equivalent of "Fine Arts."

61. The Arts & Crafts movement originated in England (c.1860) is actually a reaction of what historical
event?
a. Modernism
b. Purism
c. Industrial revolution d. Neoclassic
62. He wrote Ornament and Crime, an essay that proposed that architecture should be beautiful in
proportion to the degree of usefulness it attained.
a. Adolf Loos
b. Hector Guimard
c. Josef Hoffman
d. Otto Wagner
63. The architect who conceptualized arcology 1969 involving a fusion of architecture and ecology it is
his solution to urban problems he proposes vast vertical mega structure capable of housing millions
of inhabitants. One of his visionary projects, arcosanti is now being constructed.
a. Bruno Taut
b. Kevin Roche
c. Leon Krier
d. Paolo Soleri
64. Even a brick wants to be something.
a. Eero Saarinen
b. I.M. Pei

c. Louis Kahn

65. Who was regarded as the Dean of modern American architecture?

a. Frank Lloyd Wright
b. Louis Sullivan
c. Michael Graves
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Phillip

66. Fascia

68. Epinaos
67. Cathetus
69. Pteroma

70. Raking Cornice

71. mutule

72. Metope, Zophorus

73. Abacus
74. Pendentive

76. Finial

77. Crocket

75. S. John the Divine in New York City is:

a.
b.
c.
d.

The largest church in the world. 4th

The oldest church in the United States.
The worlds largest altar.
The last project built by Thomas Jefferson.

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78. This is an example of what trussed timber roof?

a. Aisle roof
b. Collar-braced roof
c. Hammerbeam
d. Tie-beam roof

79. The Queens House in Greenwich by Inigo Jones

is the earliest example of what style in 17C England?
a. Anglo-Saxon
b. Norman
c. Palladianism
d. Regency

81. Crossing
80. Mandapa

82. An international art and design style, so named in the 1960s after the Paris 1925 Exposition Internationale des
Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, which brought together all aspects of design: fashion, interior, printed,
architectural and industrial.
a. Art Deco
b. Art Nouveau
c. Arts & Crafts
d. De Stijl

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83. The Arts & Crafts house is called:

84. This mayan temple-pyramid is called:

a. Huaca del Luna
b. The Pyramid in Chitchen Itza
c. The Temple of Inscriptions
d. The Temple of the Warriors

Craftsman House
85. The earliest form of
window tracery, typical of
Gothic architecture prior to
the early 13th century;
individual lights (the glazed
openings in the window)
have the appearance of
being cut out of a flat plate
of masonry.

86. Who designed the Sears

Tower in Chicago?
SOM

Plate tracery

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87. SM North Edsa is the 2009 3rd largest shopping

mall in the world and designed by:
a. Arquitectonica
b. Kohn Pederson Fox
c. RMJM
d. Skidmore Owings & Merill

89. The grandest achievement of Egyptian

planning:

axial

S. Agustin Church,
Paoay, Ilocos Norte

88. Scroll Buttress

91-93. Draw a Motte and Bailey and identify the parts.

90. The St. Louis Arch in Missouri is one of the

masterpieces of:
a. Edward Durrell Stone
b. Eero Saarinen
c. Gunnar Asplund
d. I. M. Pei
94. Draw a Long-and-Short Strapwork.

95. Draw an Onion Dome.

96. Draw a Corbusian Piloti.

97. Draw a Japanese Tori.

98. Draw an Astragal Molding.

Hypostyle hall

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99. Draw a Scotia Molding.

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