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Question 1

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What is the English translation of the Greek arkhitekton?
Answer
  • Developer, chief.
  • Builder, carpenter, mason.
  • Architect.
  • Teacher, designer.

Question 2

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Who is the most notable architect from Ancient Egypt?
Answer
  • Hatshesput
  • Hestia
  • Imhotep
  • Djoser

Question 3

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Which continent is not a part of the Silk Road?
Answer
  • North America
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Europe

Question 4

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Who is the author of the 1921 book Toward a New Architecture?
Answer
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Louis Kahn
  • Robert Moses
  • Le Corbusier

Question 5

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Who is the architect of the African-American History and Culture Smithsonian Museum?
Answer
  • Frank Gehry
  • David Adjaye
  • Zaha Hadid
  • I.M. Pei

Question 6

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What is the definition of mastaba?
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  • Adobe hut.
  • Mass grave.
  • Stepped pyramid.
  • Burial mound.

Question 7

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Whose name is inscribed on the Pantheon?
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  • Julius Caeser
  • Marcus Agrippa
  • Octavius Augustus
  • Alexander the Great

Question 8

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Where is the Hagia Sophia located?
Answer
  • Istanbul
  • Mecca
  • Jerusalem
  • Urfa

Question 9

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Who designed the New Gourna Housing Project in Upper Egypt?
Answer
  • Rasem Badran
  • Hassan Fathy
  • Le Corbusier
  • Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil

Question 10

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Who did not contribute to the Critical Regionalism movement?
Answer
  • Kenneth Frampton
  • Alexander Tsonis
  • Bernard Rudofsky
  • Liane Lefaivre

Question 11

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Which of the following vernacular based projects is not located in India?
Answer
  • Plan Obus
  • Chandigarharhar
  • Indian Institute of Management
  • Mill Owners' Association Building

Question 12

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Which author studied feet and shoes as part of his larger observations on the vernacular?
Answer
  • Aldo Rossi
  • Karl Friedrich Schinkel
  • Ebenezer Howard
  • Bernard Rudofsky

Question 13

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What term is used to describe economically viable and densely inhabited tenement buildings in ancient Rome that were inhabited by the working class?
Answer
  • villas
  • tabernae
  • domus
  • insulae

Question 14

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Which is the following is not a mechanism of global interconnectedness?
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  • Common histories
  • Comparable technologies
  • Similar modalities
  • Shared sodalities

Question 15

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Which of the following became modalities following the growth of sea trade?
Answer
  • Migrant cities.
  • Inner cities.
  • Port cities.
  • None of the above.

Question 16

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What stage of visualizing great architecture includes the actual discovery of a new land?
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  • Conceptualizing territory.
  • Marking site.
  • Finding site.
  • Pre-mediating intervention.

Question 17

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The stepped pyramids of Djoser fall into which category of historic architectural evolution?
Answer
  • Rise of cities and settlements
  • From space to place
  • Creation of architecture
  • The primordial shelter

Question 18

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Which term refers to a non-kin affiliation group organized for a specific purpose?
Answer
  • Modality
  • Sodality
  • Sphere of influence ahg
  • None of the above

Question 19

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Who is the author of the book De Architectura?
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  • Caesar Augustus
  • Claudius Ptolemy
  • Marcus Vitruvius
  • Le Corbusier

Question 20

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Which individual building was constructed for a world exhibition?
Answer
  • the Crystal Palace
  • the Diamond Palace
  • the Plaid Palace
  • the Emerald Palace

Question 21

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Which book was written by Andrea Palladio?
Answer
  • Architecture of the City
  • De Architectura
  • Quattro Libri
  • Collage City

Question 22

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Who proposed the demolition of several blocks of Paris to implement a series of residential skyscrapers?
Answer
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Le Corbusier
  • Louis Kahn
  • Alvar Aalto

Question 23

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What was Stalinallee?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 24

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Which dichotomy was most carefully controlled in the Indian Institute of Management?
Answer
  • Light and shadow.
  • Noise and silence.
  • Expansion and compression.
  • Rigidity and free flow.

Question 25

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What is the definition of bricolage?
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  • 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.

Question 26

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Which master plan incorporated a number of groundscrapers?
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  • Chandigarharhar.
  • Plan Voisin.
  • Berlin Free University.
  • Savannah, Georgia

Question 27

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Which garden composition did not use living trees in its design?
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  • Safavid Gardens
  • Taj Mahal
  • Great Umayyad Mosque of Damascus
  • None of the above

Question 28

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What garden composition was designed that needed irrigation from Euphrates?
Answer
  • Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
  • Ziggurat at Ur
  • Stepped Pyramid of Saqqara
  • Hanging gardens of Babylon

Question 29

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In which landscape design was there little distinction between the indoors and outdoors?
Answer
  • Safavid Gardens at Isfahan
  • Taj Mahal
  • Central Park
  • Hadrian's Villa

Question 30

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Which of the landscapes/garden compositions had no visible geometry?
Answer
  • Hadrian's Villa
  • Gardens of Palazzo Piccolomini
  • Palace of Versailles
  • Stowe Gardens

Question 31

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Who is responsible for the landscape of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville?
Answer
  • John Adams
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Beanjameen Frankburn
  • James Madison

Question 32

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Who designed the New Gourna Housing Project in Upper Egypt?
Answer
  • Rasem Badran
  • Hassan Fathy
  • le Corbusier
  • Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil

Question 33

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Who designed the 'Salt' City of Chaux?
Answer
  • Filarete
  • Etienne-Louis Boulee
  • King Louis XVI
  • Claude Nicolas Ledoux

Question 34

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What text did Saint Augustine author?
Answer
  • World of God
  • City of God
  • Town of God
  • House of Bob, my neighbor.

Question 35

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Who destroyed Persepolis to leave an impression behind?
Answer
  • Alexander the Great
  • Mausolus
  • Genghis Khan
  • Campanella

Question 36

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What is a cenotaph?
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  • 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.

Question 37

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What is the artistic movement that is based on architectural fantasy, mixing elements of the existing and imaginary?
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  • Chiaroscuro
  • Contrapposto
  • Capriccio
  • Craqueleure

Question 38

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What group believed that a buildings aesthetic value is defined by its functionality and the practicality of materials used?
Answer
  • Constructivists
  • Deconstructivists
  • Modernists
  • Post Modernists

Question 39

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The legendary Tower of Babel was a structure built in what part of the world?
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  • the land east of the Indus River
  • the land of Punt (Somalia)
  • the land of Muscovy
  • the land of Shinar (Babylonia)

Question 40

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Le Corbusier was involved in the design of...
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  • Broadacre City proposal
  • Indian Institute of Management
  • Chau Chal Wing Building, University of Sydney
  • none of the above

Question 41

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Which of the following is a mechanism of global interconnectedness?
Answer
  • common philosophies
  • comparable technologies
  • similar modalities
  • all of the above

Question 42

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Which of the following was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright?
Answer
  • SC Johnson Administration Building, Racine
  • Museum of Biodiversity, Panama City
  • Crystal Palace, London
  • Villa Savoye, Poissy

Question 43

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What structure was originally constructed as a mastaba?
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  • Tower of Babel
  • Heb-Sed
  • Zoser’s Stepped Pyramid
  • Watchtowers of Kaiping, China

Question 44

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Which continent was not part of the Silk Road?
Answer
  • North America
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Europe

Question 45

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Who was the architect and designer of Zoser's Pyramid?
Answer
  • Hatshepsut
  • Imhotep
  • Hestia
  • Scary Imhotep from The Mummy

Question 46

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Which of the following is one of the fundamental principles of architecture suggested by Vitruvius?
Answer
  • firmness
  • commodity
  • delight
  • all of the above

Question 47

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What did Le Corbusier's Plan Voisin for Paris suggest?
Answer
  • 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

Question 48

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What is one the features of Safavid Gardens at Isfahan?
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  • 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

Question 49

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What concept influenced Thomas Jefferson’s design for the University of Virginia at Charlottesville?
Answer
  • democracy and architecture
  • control of light and shadow
  • modernism
  • all of the above

Question 50

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The city of Chandigarh is...
Answer
  • first planned city in India post-independence
  • an unbuilt city designed by Le Corbusier
  • an example of traditional city
  • all of the above

Question 51

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Which of the following is a function of temple gardens?
Answer
  • 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
  • all of the above

Question 52

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Which of the following is not associated with the works of Frederick Law Olmsted?
Answer
  • 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

Question 53

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Which building designed by Frank Gehry to mimic geological movements became an icon for Panama City?
Answer
  • Chau Chal Wing Building
  • Museum of Biodiversity
  • Guggenheim Building
  • Falling water

Question 54

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Who is the goddess of hearth, home architecture, domesticity, and state?
Answer
  • Hatshepsut
  • Nefertiti
  • Imhotep
  • Hestia

Question 55

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What is the definition of mastaba?
Answer
  • adobe hut
  • mass grave
  • stepped pyramid
  • burial mound

Question 56

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Which of the following is a modality?
Answer
  • a medieval guild
  • the Silk Road
  • a village
  • the Roman military

Question 57

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Which ancient Mediterranean region is known as the "cradle of civilization"?
Answer
  • Eygpt
  • Greece
  • Mesopotamia
  • Constantinople

Question 58

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Which of the following is not an associational quality of architecture?
Answer
  • figure and ground
  • arrangement
  • form
  • aesthetics

Question 59

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Which architect designed Saynatsalo Town Hall (1951)?
Answer
  • Alvar Aalto
  • Le Corbusier
  • Oscar Neymeyer
  • Louis Kahn

Question 60

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What was the name of Aldo Rossi's typological study on the fabric of the city?
Answer
  • Essay on Architecture
  • Architecture of the City
  • Cities of Tomorrow
  • De Architectura

Question 61

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Which park did Bernard Tschumi design with a grid of red "follies"?
Answer
  • Four Freedoms Park
  • Washington Park
  • Parc de la Vilette
  • the High Line

Question 62

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In which city is Louis Kahn's Indian Institute of Management located?
Answer
  • Chandigarh
  • Ahmedabad
  • Isfahan
  • Deir el-Bahari
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