What is the English translation of the Greek arkhitekton?
Developer, chief.
Builder, carpenter, mason.
Architect.
Teacher, designer.
Who is the most notable architect from Ancient Egypt?
Hatshesput
Hestia
Imhotep
Djoser
Which continent is not a part of the Silk Road?
North America
Africa
Asia
Europe
Who is the author of the 1921 book Toward a New Architecture?
Frank Lloyd Wright
Louis Kahn
Robert Moses
Le Corbusier
Who is the architect of the African-American History and Culture Smithsonian Museum?
Frank Gehry
David Adjaye
Zaha Hadid
I.M. Pei
What is the definition of mastaba?
Adobe hut.
Mass grave.
Stepped pyramid.
Burial mound.
Whose name is inscribed on the Pantheon?
Julius Caeser
Marcus Agrippa
Octavius Augustus
Alexander the Great
Where is the Hagia Sophia located?
Istanbul
Mecca
Jerusalem
Urfa
Who designed the New Gourna Housing Project in Upper Egypt?
Rasem Badran
Hassan Fathy
Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil
Who did not contribute to the Critical Regionalism movement?
Kenneth Frampton
Alexander Tsonis
Bernard Rudofsky
Liane Lefaivre
Which of the following vernacular based projects is not located in India?
Plan Obus
Chandigarharhar
Indian Institute of Management
Mill Owners' Association Building
Which author studied feet and shoes as part of his larger observations on the vernacular?
Aldo Rossi
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Ebenezer Howard
What term is used to describe economically viable and densely inhabited tenement buildings in ancient Rome that were inhabited by the working class?
villas
tabernae
domus
insulae
Which is the following is not a mechanism of global interconnectedness?
Common histories
Comparable technologies
Similar modalities
Shared sodalities
Which of the following became modalities following the growth of sea trade?
Migrant cities.
Inner cities.
Port cities.
None of the above.
What stage of visualizing great architecture includes the actual discovery of a new land?
Conceptualizing territory.
Marking site.
Finding site.
Pre-mediating intervention.
The stepped pyramids of Djoser fall into which category of historic architectural evolution?
Rise of cities and settlements
From space to place
Creation of architecture
The primordial shelter
Which term refers to a non-kin affiliation group organized for a specific purpose?
Modality
Sodality
Sphere of influence ahg
None of the above
Who is the author of the book De Architectura?
Caesar Augustus
Claudius Ptolemy
Marcus Vitruvius
Which individual building was constructed for a world exhibition?
the Crystal Palace
the Diamond Palace
the Plaid Palace
the Emerald Palace
Which book was written by Andrea Palladio?
Architecture of the City
De Architectura
Quattro Libri
Collage City
Who proposed the demolition of several blocks of Paris to implement a series of residential skyscrapers?
Alvar Aalto
What was Stalinallee?
A major boulevard running through East Berlin.
A symbol of East Germany's power.
A carefully planned street with a monumental feeling.
All of the above.
Which dichotomy was most carefully controlled in the Indian Institute of Management?
Light and shadow.
Noise and silence.
Expansion and compression.
Rigidity and free flow.
What is the definition of bricolage?
A burial mound.
Something constructed or created from a diverse range of available things.
The study and interpretation of types and symbols.
A long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, or part of a building.
Which master plan incorporated a number of groundscrapers?
Chandigarharhar.
Plan Voisin.
Berlin Free University.
Savannah, Georgia
Which garden composition did not use living trees in its design?
Safavid Gardens
Taj Mahal
Great Umayyad Mosque of Damascus
What garden composition was designed that needed irrigation from Euphrates?
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
Ziggurat at Ur
Stepped Pyramid of Saqqara
Hanging gardens of Babylon
In which landscape design was there little distinction between the indoors and outdoors?
Safavid Gardens at Isfahan
Central Park
Hadrian's Villa
Which of the landscapes/garden compositions had no visible geometry?
Gardens of Palazzo Piccolomini
Palace of Versailles
Stowe Gardens
Who is responsible for the landscape of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville?
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Beanjameen Frankburn
James Madison
le Corbusier
Who designed the 'Salt' City of Chaux?
Filarete
Etienne-Louis Boulee
King Louis XVI
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
What text did Saint Augustine author?
World of God
City of God
Town of God
House of Bob, my neighbor.
Who destroyed Persepolis to leave an impression behind?
Mausolus
Genghis Khan
Campanella
What is a cenotaph?
A structure that cannot be constructed.
A remembrance site in honor of a person whose remains are elsewhere.
A symbol of a famous person.
A primordial object.
What is the artistic movement that is based on architectural fantasy, mixing elements of the existing and imaginary?
Chiaroscuro
Contrapposto
Capriccio
Craqueleure
What group believed that a buildings aesthetic value is defined by its functionality and the practicality of materials used?
Constructivists
Deconstructivists
Modernists
Post Modernists
The legendary Tower of Babel was a structure built in what part of the world?
the land east of the Indus River
the land of Punt (Somalia)
the land of Muscovy
the land of Shinar (Babylonia)
Le Corbusier was involved in the design of...
Broadacre City proposal
Chau Chal Wing Building, University of Sydney
none of the above
Which of the following is a mechanism of global interconnectedness?
common philosophies
comparable technologies
similar modalities
all of the above
Which of the following was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright?
SC Johnson Administration Building, Racine
Museum of Biodiversity, Panama City
Crystal Palace, London
Villa Savoye, Poissy
What structure was originally constructed as a mastaba?
Tower of Babel
Heb-Sed
Zoser’s Stepped Pyramid
Watchtowers of Kaiping, China
Which continent was not part of the Silk Road?
Who was the architect and designer of Zoser's Pyramid?
Hatshepsut
Scary Imhotep from The Mummy
Which of the following is one of the fundamental principles of architecture suggested by Vitruvius?
firmness
commodity
delight
What did Le Corbusier's Plan Voisin for Paris suggest?
the demolition of the Eiffel Tower
the demolition of central Paris to construct new modernist neighborhoods
the demolition of Gare du Nord, in order to construct a four high-rise towers
the demolition of the old center of Lyon to create a garden
What is one the features of Safavid Gardens at Isfahan?
they serve to exemplify English Romantic gardens.
there were little distinction between the indoors and outdoors
they were designed for the use of common people
the original design derived from Egyptian gardens
What concept influenced Thomas Jefferson’s design for the University of Virginia at Charlottesville?
democracy and architecture
control of light and shadow
modernism
The city of Chandigarh is...
first planned city in India post-independence
an unbuilt city designed by Le Corbusier
an example of traditional city
Which of the following is a function of temple gardens?
to produce flowers for the perfumes used for anointing the statues
to represent the power of king
to produce the floral, vegetable, and fruit offerings needed for the rituals of the gods
Which of the following is not associated with the works of Frederick Law Olmsted?
his works embody his commitment to egalitarian ideals
his early works were influenced by the gardens of the Palazzo Piccolomini
he designed New York City's Central Park
he designed a park in Milwaukee
Which building designed by Frank Gehry to mimic geological movements became an icon for Panama City?
Chau Chal Wing Building
Museum of Biodiversity
Guggenheim Building
Falling water
Who is the goddess of hearth, home architecture, domesticity, and state?
Nefertiti
adobe hut
mass grave
stepped pyramid
burial mound
Which of the following is a modality?
a medieval guild
the Silk Road
a village
the Roman military
Which ancient Mediterranean region is known as the "cradle of civilization"?
Eygpt
Greece
Mesopotamia
Constantinople
Which of the following is not an associational quality of architecture?
figure and ground
arrangement
form
aesthetics
Which architect designed Saynatsalo Town Hall (1951)?
Oscar Neymeyer
What was the name of Aldo Rossi's typological study on the fabric of the city?
Essay on Architecture
Cities of Tomorrow
Which park did Bernard Tschumi design with a grid of red "follies"?
Four Freedoms Park
Washington Park
Parc de la Vilette
the High Line
In which city is Louis Kahn's Indian Institute of Management located?
Chandigarh
Ahmedabad
Isfahan
Deir el-Bahari
