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Question 1

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Which designer created a "scrapbook" of different architectural elements independent of context?
Answer
  • Andrea Palladio
  • Sebastiano Serlio
  • Michelangelo
  • Plato

Question 2

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What differentiated Palladio from his predecessors?
Answer
  • He was the first known architect to use a dome.
  • He was the first modern architect to focus on asymmetry.
  • He used early notions of pre-fabricated elements in his designs.
  • He used only the most expensive materials on the market.

Question 3

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What was the main goal of the Bauhuas?
Answer
  • To create simple, functional buildings.
  • To use only steel and glass in construction
  • To design inexpensive home appliances for all.
  • To re-imagine the material world to reflect the unity of the arts.

Question 4

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Who is the author of The Four Elements of Architecture?
Answer
  • Andrea Palladio
  • Gottfried Semper
  • Vitruvius
  • George Hersey and Richard Freedman

Question 5

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Which of the following is NOT true of the students of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts?
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  • They were comprised largely of the bourgeoisie.
  • They were focused on creating modern designs.
  • They studied human anatomy as part of their coursework.
  • They boiled down elements from notable past projects and incorporated them into new designs.

Question 6

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Which designer introduced the concept of a proun?
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  • El Lissitzky
  • Nikolai Ladovski
  • Ivan Leonidov
  • Yakov Chemikov

Question 7

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What is the Panopticon?
Answer
  • A prison concept, where one watchman can observe all prison cells.
  • A type of hospital in ancient Rome.
  • A governmental building in Berlin.
  • A building material used during the Jim Carrey movement.

Question 8

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What were some of the important aesthetic, meaning and assembly elements predominantly used by Louis Kahn?
Answer
  • Weather and seasonings.
  • Sustainability and affordability.
  • Light and silence.
  • Wind and humididty.

Question 9

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Who was the architect of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth?
Answer
  • Augustus Pugin
  • Louis Kahn
  • Le Corbusier
  • Leon Batista Alberti

Question 10

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What was the new addition designed by Norman Foster for Berlin's Reichstag?
Answer
  • A tower.
  • A dome.
  • An arena.
  • A portico.

Question 11

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What best describes the way Vitruvius viewed the beauty?
Answer
  • As an architectural concept rooted in ancient Persia.
  • As a symmetric assembly of configuration.
  • As an abstract ideal form of an architectural order.
  • As an unchanging form.

Question 12

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The Jewish Museum of Berlin was designed by which architect?
Answer
  • Gian Lorenzo Bernini
  • Norman Foster
  • La Corbu
  • Daniel Libeskind

Question 13

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Who was the author of the Ten Books of Architecture?
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  • Also Rossi
  • Sebastiano Serlio
  • Le Corbu
  • Leon Batista Alberti

Question 14

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How were the concepts of beauty and symmetry connected in the antique philosophy of beauty?
Answer
  • Symmetry, while yet important, was secondary to proportion.
  • Symmetry and beauty were two separate concepts.
  • Beauty cannot be considered as an essential concept in the antiquity period.
  • Symmetry as an absolute principle of creation and beauty.

Question 15

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What is the Modulor?
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  • A system of human propotions used in architecture.
  • A modular apartment building.
  • A type of an urban block.
  • A type of pattern.

Question 16

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The Rococo was:
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  • Widely used as a method in large scale urban construction.
  • Widely used as a method in small scale interior design.
  • A type of expensive furniture.
  • Widely used as a method by modernists.

Question 17

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The major transformation happening to the arts and representative architecture during the shift from the Medieval to the Renaissance thought has to do with:
Answer
  • The freeing of religion from arts and architecture.
  • The freeing of architecture and arts from the religion.
  • The newly found subordination of all the arts and architecture to the religios ideas of beauty.
  • The fairlue of empires.

Question 18

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What was Vitruvius best known for in his time?
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  • For the construction of the Coliseum.
  • For the design of the Pantheon.
  • For writing treatises on architecture.
  • For being a great military commander.

Question 19

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What was the main goal of the Deutscher Werkbund?
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  • To create ornamental home accessories.
  • To create expensive appliances for the wealthy.
  • To create beautiful, inexpensive things for all.
  • To further the agenda set up by the Bauhaus.

Question 20

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Which architect combined function with Nordic idioms?
Answer
  • Alvar Aalto
  • Le Corbu
  • Walter Gropius
  • Mies Van der Rohe

Question 21

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Which of the following is NOT a real architectural order?
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  • Corinthian
  • Athenian
  • Doric
  • Ionic

Question 22

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What is the central idea behind the city of Chaux?
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  • A modernist ensemble in the south of France.
  • An unrealized utopian project by Claude Ledoux.
  • A utopian concept by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
  • A reconstructed museum from antiquity.

Question 23

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What is the architectural type of St. Peters Cathedral in Rome?
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  • Gaden lanscape.
  • Ziggurat.
  • Basilica.
  • Ceremonial Complex.
  • I'm extremely disappointed in you if you don't know the answer.

Question 24

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The CIAM was an acronym for what?
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  • International Congresses of Modern Architecture.
  • Congress of International Archtecural Movement.
  • Central Institute for Modern Aesthetics.
  • International Conference of Medieval Architecture.

Question 25

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Who coined the phrase "form follows function"?
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  • Frank Llyod Wright
  • Not me.
  • Louis Sullivan
  • Louis Kahn

Question 26

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How did Le Corbu approach roof top design in Unite d'habitation?
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  • Strictly utilitarian.
  • As a fifth facade.
  • As public gathering spaces.
  • As streets in the sky.

Question 27

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Augustus Pugin designed...
Answer
  • The Neuschderwaienerstain.
  • The New Houses of Parliament.
  • SARUP.
  • The design of Santa Maria del Fiore.

Question 28

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Which of the following are NOT types of Architectural Meanings.
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  • Presentational Meaning.
  • Referential Meaning.
  • Perspective Meaning.
  • All of the above.

Question 29

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Which architect is considered as the inventor of the linear perspective?
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  • Gian Lorenzo Bernini
  • Giacomo Puccini
  • Spagenni Bertoli
  • Filippo Brunelleschi

Question 30

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Mimar Sinanis the architect of...
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  • Hagia Sophia
  • St. Peter's Basilica (see, that one question was easy, dummy)
  • Suleymaniye Mosque
  • New Gourna

Question 31

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What is a notable feature of Doge's Palace in Venice?
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  • It was completely rebuilt by Alberti.
  • It was reskinned but kept its original core.
  • It is the only religious building pertaining to dogs on the island.
  • It has columns that are mathematically perfectly aligned with one another.

Question 32

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What did Sinan belive about budgets?
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  • Budgets should be irrelevant to design.
  • Budgets should drive design.
  • Budgets are a reflection of the client' social stature.
  • Budgets are stupid.

Question 33

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What was notable about Rafael Moneo's City Hall of Muricia Plaza building?
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  • Its facade was arbitrary apart from aligning with neiboring buildings.
  • It showed how the past of the city was fractured.
  • It demonstrated a physical manifestation of democracy.
  • It was an exaggerated version of the building that had been there previously.

Question 34

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What is genius loci?
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  • Spirit of place.
  • Spirit of space.
  • Spirit of time.
  • Spirit of boredom.

Question 35

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What is notable about the Catherdral of Cologne?
Answer
  • It was owned and maintained by the Catholic Church.
  • It took just under 2,000 years to build. Great!
  • It was publicly owned and maintained.
  • It had the largest dome in Europe.

Question 36

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What were the castles of medieval Europe a symbol of?
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  • They signified protection for the masses.
  • They conveyed the religous beliefs of the time.
  • They signified that the unruly citizens should stop rebelling and join the system.
  • They conveyed the wealth of the royalty.

Question 37

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What was the content of Aldo Rossi's Architecture of the City?
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  • A comparative essay between Roman city structure and modern cities.
  • A review on the master plan of five European cities.
  • A criticism of vernacular use in cities.
  • A typological study on the frabric of the city.

Question 38

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What is the definition of affective meaning?
Answer
  • It conveys how elements create meaning.
  • It refers to a moment in the past.
  • It connects meaning to who you are as a sentient being.
  • It informs decisions.

Question 39

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Who was Friedrich Froebel?
Answer
  • An educationist who believed how you teach children maximizes their human potential.
  • A theorist who commented on the effects of was on the middle class.
  • An activist who believed cityscapes should have social equity.
  • An architect who responded to the Fromage-Prussian War.
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