THEORY OF

ARCHITECTURE
PART 2 Review
AR. EMMANUEL R.
BADAGUAS
1. It is a comparison showing differences,
the opposite of similarity.

A. Rhythm
B. Contrast
C. Proportion
D. Character
2. The most important kind of character in
architecture is that which result from the
purpose of the building or reason of
erection.

A. Personal Character
B. Associated Character
C. Functional Character
D. Social Character
3. Most elementary means of organizing
forms and spaces in architecture.

A. Axis
B. Balance
C. Scale
D. Character
4. Characterized by an arrangement
where all the part radiate from a center
like the spikes in a wheel.

A. Radial
B. Formal
C. Centralized
D. Unsymmetrical
5. It means equality.

A. Rhythm
B. Contrast
C. Proportion
D. Balance
6. A kind of character that came from the
influence of ideas and impressions
related to or growing out of past
experience.
A. Personal Character
B. Associated Character
C. Functional Character
D. Social Character
7. Deals with the relationship between the
different parts of the whole to the various
parts.

A.  Proportion
B. Balance
C. Absolute Proportion
D. Relative Proportion
8. It bears a certain relation to the same
attribute to the life of an individual.

A. Personal Character
B. Associated Character
C. Functional Character
D. Social Character
9. A number of secondary forms clustered
about a dominant, centra-perceive form.

A.  Linear
B. Clustered
C. Centralized
D. Grid form
10. The size and proportion of an
element appear to have relative to
other elements of   known or assumed
size.
A. Visual scale
B. Mechanical scale
C. Generic scale
D. Human scale
11. One of the pioneers of the modern
movement in American architecture.
Work: Auditorium Building, U.S.

A. Louis Henry Sullivan

B. William Le Baron Jenney
C. Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
D. Daniel Burnham
12. Arch of the famous Twin Tower World
Trade Center.

A. I.M. Pei
B. Yamasaki and Roth
C. Brunelleschi
D. SOM
13. Scottish architect and designer who
was prominent in the arts and crafts
movement in
Great Britain.
A.  Charles Mackintosh
B. Peter Behrens
C. Robert Adam
D. Mies Van de Rohe
14. In 1989 he received the Pritzker prize
commonly referred to as “The Noble of
Architecture” the loftiest recognition. It is a
lifetime achievement award granted to living
architect whose body of work represents a
superlative contribution to the field.
A. Minoru Yamasaki
B. Frank Gehry
C. Renzo Piano
D. Kenzo Tange
15. His first designs were drawings of
fantastic architectural visions in steel and
glass as well as costume and poster design.

A.  Norman Foster

B. Ieoh Ming Pei
C. Frank Gehry
D. Erich Mendelsohn
16. Much of his works has been described
as post modern, since he rejected the
excessive abstractionism of architects
such as Le Corbusier and strove instead to
incorporate the valid elements of older
style.
A. Louis Kahn
B. Ieoh Ming Pei
C. Fry Maxwell
D. Marcel Breuer
17. Spanish architects, one of the most
creative practitioners of his art in modern
times. His style is often described as a blend
of neo-gothic and art nouveau, but is also
has surrealist and cubist elements.
A. Lucio Costa
B. Antonio Gaudi
C. Alejandro Aravena
D. Santiago Calatrava
18. One of the world’s 1st futurist and
global thinkers. His 1927 decision to
work always and only for all humanity
led him to address the largest global
problems of poverty, disease and
homelessness.
A.  Kenzo Tange
B. Santiago Calatrava
C. Frank Gehry
D. Buckminster Fuller
19. Afterwards became deeply involved
in the design and building of French
railways and bridges. He worked on
structures such as bridge across the
Garonne River, train stations at Toulouse
and again in France. 
A. Gustave Eiffel
B. Alvar Aalto
C. Santiago Calatrava
D. Benjamin Latrobe
20. French-born, Brazilian architect and
urban planner.

A. Paulo Mendez da Rocha

B. Lucio Costa
C. Oscar Niemeyer
D. Santiago Calatrava
21. He was the architect in his time that
receives his license as award at his 60’s or at
the age of 60 yrs. old.

A.  Louis Sullivan

B. Buckminster
Fuller
C. Antonio Gaudi
D. Paul Rudolf
22. An important Scottish architect who
was particularly known for his interiors
based on classical decoration.
A. Marcel Breuer
B. Mackintosh Charles
C. Robert Adam
D. Mies van de Rohe
23. His insistence on the importance of
design and formal expression in our lives,
and his adept handling of materials, light and
space, explained why he is one of the great 
architects of the 20th century.
A.  Alvar Aalto
B. Richard Meier
C. Robert Adam
D. Renzo Piano
24. Japanese architect, like many of his
generation he experimented with
aspects of western modernism. He was
associated with the start of metabolism
in 1960.
A.  Minoru Yamasaki
B. Kusho Kurukawa
C. Fumihiko Maki
D. Kenzo Tange
25. He was called “Masters master” where
his students are architects like Gropius,
Breuer and Van de Rohe.
A. Eric Mendelsohn
B. Frank Lloyd Wright
C. Peter Behrens
D. Vitruvius
26. Pre-occupied with the notion of an
industrialized “plug-in” city, he has
devised schemes in which mobile
residence pods are plugged into a steel
frame which connects to mechanical and
electrical services.
A.  Daniel Burnham
B. Paul Rudolph
C. Pier Luigi Nervi
D. Oscar Niemeyer
27. Brazil’s best known and most
important modern architect. From 1956
to 1964 he designed the major buildings
for Brasilia the futuristic new capital of
Brazil.
   A. Lucio Costa
B. Oscar Niemeyer
C. Santiago Calatrava
D. Paulo Mendez Da Rocha
28. Discovered new facilities in the
interplay of volumes, planes, levels and
better relationship of the light and view
which is one his style in design.
A.  Felix Candela
B. Adolf Loos
C. Oscar Niemeyer
D. Louis Sullivan
29. Frequently works on a large scale and is
renowned for his sharp, geometric designs.

A. Renzo Piano
B. Ieoh Ming Pei
C. Frank Gehry
D. Paul Rudolph
30. Is renowned for his technical ingenuity
and dramatic sense of design, especially to
large span structures built of reinforced
concrete.
A.  Renzo Piano
B. Felix Candela
C. Eliel Saarinen 
D. Pier Luigi Nervi
31. Architect who contributed the use of
reinforcement concrete flames and large
areas of glazing (glass) where we applied
today.
A.  Fry Maxwell
B. Norman Foster
C. Felix Candela
D. Adolf Loos
32. His work was with simple forms, the
distillation from history and the order of
industrial techniques, this designs of bold,
pure, simple forms offered both
architectural integrity and structural
honesty.
A.  Fry Maxwell
B. Peter Behrens
C. Mies Van Der Rohe
D. Adolf Loos
33. His ability to select and use motifs from
the classical antique in an original way led
to his success, and his interior designs are
th
one of the finest expressions of 18
century artistic achievement. 
A. Peter Behrens
B. Mies van de Rohe
C. Alberti Lean Battista
D. Robert Adam
34. Transformed the renaissance tradition
of the universal artist-genius into the style
which came to be known as Baroque- a
fusion of the arts of architecture, sculpture
and painting to create new forms which
above all created a dramatic impact and
involved theLorenzo
A. Bernini Giovanni spectator.
B. Bartning Otto
C. Robert Adam
D. Borromini Fransesco
35. The youngest of the pioneer modernists,
was instrumental in shifting the bias of the
Bauhaus from the Arts and Crafts” to Art
and technology.

A. Peter Behrens
B. Marcel Breuer
C. Robert Adam
D. Alvar Aalto
36. Architect, sculptor and engineer who
was the main initiator of stylistic changes in
Renaissance architecture. The engineering
feat represented by the cupola of Florence
cathedral staggered by his contemporaries.
A. Brunelleschi  Fillippo
B. Bernini Lorenzo
C. Borromini Fransesco
D. Antonio Gaudi
37. Architect of the UNESCO building in
Paris which the striking feature of this
complex is the enormous “Y” shaped
office and conference room block.
A. Cass Gilbert
B. Robert Adam
C. Alvar Aalto
D. Marcel Breuer
38. Architect and painter, one of the
personalities of Italian renaissance
architecture. Already in his early works he
changed conventional architecture space
by inserting illusionist features more
typical of painting and storage settings.
A. Bernini Lorenzo
B. Bramante Donato
C. Brunelleschi Fillippo
D. Leonardo da Vinci
39. Nicknamed “The Shell builder” because
of his extensive exploration of the structural
possibilities of lightweight concrete roof
construction, often using complex curve
forms to exploit the tensile strengths within
this versatile material.
  A. Felix Candela
B. Frank Lloyd Wright
C. Pier Luigi Nervi
D. Eliel Saarinen
40. One of his strangest work is a
fish-shaped restaurant in Japan called
“Fishdance’
A. Fumihiko Maki
B. Kenzo Tange
C. Minoru Yamasaki
D. Frank Gehry
41. American architect who designed one of
the first sky scrapers in New York and the
designer of the Woolworth building which
was built in 1911-13.
A. Henry Louis Sullivan
B. Cass Gilbert
C. Daniel Burnham
D. Minoru Yamasaki
42. His work evolved away from concern
with the roots of modernism towards a
wide ranging borrowing from
architectural history.
A. Le Corbusier
B. Henry Sullivan
C. Michael Graves
D. Richard Meier
43. His architecture is notable for its
simple, platonic forms and compositions
through the use of bricks and poured
concrete/ poured in place concrete
masonry. He developed a contemporary
architecture of great power and
monumentality.
A. Henry Louis Sullivan
B. Mies van de Rohe
C. Felix Candela
D. Louis Kahn
44. Maison Domino, basic building diagram,
a prototype for mass production with free
standing pillars and rigid over sailing floors
belongs to?
A. Frank Lloyd Wright
B. Norman Foster
C. Lucio Costa
D. Le Corbusier
45. Although he built little or nothing, he has
many architectural drawings reveal a new
concern with form that anticipates the high
renaissance style of Bramante in Rome and
in particular the designs for the New St.
Peters. 
A. Leonardo Da Vinci
B. Fillippo Brunelleschi
C. Bramante Donato
D. Bernini Lorenzo
46. U.S. based architect, known best for his
vast shimmering towers used as corporate
headquarters. He describes himself as a
“pragmatist” who feels that there is strength
and energy flowing in everything including
the energy in his projects themselves.
 
A. Thom Mayne
B. Frank Gehry
C. Cesar Pelli
D. Daniel Libeskind
47. This famous dictum, “I am neither a
capitalist nor a socialist, I am not a religious
or an atheist” belongs to?

A. Lucio Costa
B. Pier Luigi Nervi
C. Buckminster Fuller
D. Oscar Niemeyer
48. Whose famous axiom is this, “Design as
if you were a child” 

A. Alvar Aalto
B. Kenzo Tange
C. Michael Graves
D. Antonio Gaudi
49. “Design Science” is a philosophy of
which Architect?

A. Paul Rudolph
B. Alvar Aalto
C. Buckminster Fuller
D. Mies Van Der Rohe
50.  “Architecture is a personal effort”
remarked by?

A. Adolf  Loos
B. Paul Rudolph
C. Frei Otto
D. Aldo Rossi
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