1. The type of stones used in the Stonehenge.

a. Blue Stones***
b. Petros Sussenica
c. Henge stones
d. Cursus

2. It bears a certain relation to the same attribute to the life of an individual.

a. Functional Character
b. Balance
c. Personal Character***
d. Relative Proportion

3. Which of the following is not a definition of architectural concept?

a. A perception about form resulting from analysis of the problem.
b. A strategy for moving from project needs to building form.
c. Evaluative information about an action or process prompting a return to a preceding phase for
alteration or correction.***
d. A mental image deriving from the project situation.

4. What is referred to as a Chinese geomancy originally called “under the canopy of heaven”?
a. Tai Chi
b. Feng Shui***
c. Sheng Chi
d. Ba-Gua

5. What do you call this concept in Architecture which is the result of Intellectual, Social, Religious &
Political conditions developed at a given place by a given people?
a. Architectural Character***
b. History of Architecture
c. Architectural Legacy
d. Historical Style

6. A kind of character that came from the influence of ideas and impressions related to or growing out of
past experience.
a. Associated Character***
b. Character
c. Personal Character
d. Functional Character
7. This church is the national shrine of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel located at Plaza del Carmen on the eastern
end of Claro M. Recto Street in Quiapo, Manila. Completed in 1981, it is noted for its architectural
feature being the only all steel church or basilica in Asia and claimed as the only prefabricated steel
church in the world. What is the name of this church?
a. San Sebastian Church***
b. Binondo Church
c. Manila Cathedral
d. Quiapo Church

8. Which architect was part of the team that designed the Center Pompidou? (Centre Pompidou is simply
ingenious. The building’s facade is comprised of all the air ducts, stairwells, and framework, normally
inside a building. Essentially he teamed with Renzo Piano made this building ‘inside out’. Centre
Pompidou is in Paris).
a. Le Corbusier
b. Richard Rogers***
c. Walter Gropius
d. I.M. Pei

9. Finnish architect, who by preserving a rigor from Art Noveau and never quite succumbing to the full
sentiment, produced extracting structures and restraint.
a. Felix Candela
b. Lucio Costa
c. Eliel Saarinen***
d. Fry Maxwell

10. The Secretariat Building UNESCO Headquarters by Marcel Brauer is what type of spatial organization?
a. Grid organization
b. Linear organization
c. Centralized organization
d. Radial organization***

11. In Mesopotamian architecture, religion called for temples made of sun dried brick is ________.
a. Thakamus
b. Ziggurats***
c. Megarons
d. Megalith

12. His ability to select and use motifs from the classical antique in an original way led to his success, and
his interior designs are one of the finest expressions of 18th century artistic achievement.
a. Mies van de Rohe
b. Alberti Lean Battista
c. Robert Adam***
d. Peter Behrens
13. Monoliths or menhirs are prototypes of Egyptian ______.
a. Sphinx
b. Mastaba
c. Pyramid***
d. Pylon

14. This radical architect wrote the influential book “Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manife4sto for
Manhattan”.
a. Peter Eisenman
b. Rem Koolhas***
c. Wolf Prix
d. Daniel Libeskind

15. “Everything started with the Nipa Hut” belongs to _______.

a. Francisco Mañosa***
b. Remigio Esguerra
c. Leandro Locsin
d. Froilan Hong

16. What historic style of architecture contributed architectural mouldings such as cyma recta, cyma
reversa, ovolo, etc?
a. Early Christian
b. Greek***
c. Byzantine
d. Chinese

17. Architect of the Centre Pompidou in Paris

a. Richard Rogers
b. Frank Gehry
c. Kenzo Tange
d. Renzo Piano***

18. Architect of PBCOM, Makati is SOM and with Filipino counterpart;

a. W. Cosculuella & Asso.
b. R. Villaroza
c. Recio + Casas
d. G. Formoso & Partners***
19. Who said that “The magnificent display of volume put together in the light”.
a. Le Corbusier***
b. Adolf Hitler
c. Louis Khan
d. Frank Ghery

20. The cross-in square style would most often be found in a __________ Church?
a. Romanesque
b. Rococo
c. Medieval
d. Byzantine***

21. The private house of the Roman is the _______.

a. Insula
b. Megaron
c. Domus***
d. Villa

22. Architect of TWA airport.

a. Frank Lloyd Wright
b. Eero Saarinen***
c. Mies van de Rohe
d. Alvar Aalto

23. One of the Principles of Composition which is also known as “Formal Architecture”.
a. Unity
b. Scale
c. Balance***
d. Proportion

24. Architect Leandro Locsin designed the building that houses our national artists. What is the name of
this building?
a. Cultural Center of the Philippines***
b. Folk Arts theater
c. Metropolitan Theatre
d. National Museum

25. The Egyptian ornament symbolizing fertility is ___________.

a. Scarab
b. Continuous coil of spiral
c. Papyrus***
d. Grape
1. a. Blue stones 12. c. Robert Adam
2. c. Personal character 13. c. Pyramid
3. c. Evaluative information about an 14. b. Rem Kollhas
action or process prompting a return 15. a. Francisco Mañosa
to a preceding phase for alteration 16. b. Greek
or correction. 17. d. Renzo Piano
4. b. Feng Shui 18. d. G. Formoso & Partners
5. a. Architectural Character 19. a. Le Corbusier
6. a. Associated Character 20. d. Byzantine
7. a. San Sebastian Church 21. c. Domus
8. b. Richard Rogers 22. b. Eero Saarinen
9. c. Eliel Saarinen 23. c. Balance
10. d. Radial Organization 24. a. Cultural Center of the Philippines
11. b. Ziggurats 25. c. Papyrus