Multiple Choice:

10. A phase of Spanish architecture, an intricate style named after its

1. A purposeful activity aimed at devising a plan for changing an likeness to silverwork:
existing situation into a future preferred state: a. Churrigueresque
b. Plateresque
a. Design Philosophy c. Mudejar
b. Design Criteria d. Mozarabic
c. Design Considerations e. Moorish
d. Design Process
e. Design Concept 11. EDWARD T. HALL’s “silent language” of nonverbal
communications consists of such culturally determined as the physical
2. The legendary dictum of American architect, LOUIS HENRY distance or closeness maintained between individuals.
SULLIVAN (1856- 1924), leading representative of the School of What is this theory called?
Chicago: a. Perception
b. Territoriality
a. Less is more. c. Semiotics
b. Less is a bore. d. Proxemics
c. A house is a machine in which to live in. e. Anthropometrics
d. Form follows function.
e. Ornament is a crime. 12. The term used in a specialized sense to describe one of the
attitudes of taste towards architecture & landscape gardening; defined
3. Located in Osaka, also known as SHIRASAGIJO, or White Heron in the late 18th century:
Castle, this Japanese 17th century fortress served as a regional a. Palladianism
stronghold for the Tokugawa shogunate: b. Picturesque
a. Himeji Castle c. Arts & Crafts Movement
b. Imperial Palace d. Beaux Arts
c. Horiyuji Temple e. City Beautiful Movement
d. Itsukushima Shrine
e. Kinkakuji Temple 13. A gateway in a fortification permitting a large number of troops to
move rapidly from a besieged position & attack the besiegers:
4. Movement that began in the late 1960s, in opposition to Modernism, a. Portcullis
with its strict functionalism & ban on the orders of columns & traditional b. Palisade
forms of ornamentation. This movement brought these banned forms to c. Postern
playful new life: d. Sallyport
a. Post- Modernism e. Counterscarp
b. Greek Revival
c. Art Nouveau 14. The period or phase of French Gothic characterized by circular
d. Art Deco windows with radiating lines of tracery:
e. Brutalism a. Rayonnant Style
b. Decorated Style
5. The following architects are the major representatives of HIGH- c. Lancet Style
TECH, EXCEPT: d. Perpendicular Style
e. Flambouyant Style
a. Renzo Piano
b. Norman Foster 15. A basin, usually of stone, holding the water used in baptism:
c. Richard Rogers a. Campanile
d. Charles Moore b. Cantharus
e. Jean Nouvel c. Coro
d. Cimborio
6.The following are works by ANDREA PALLADIO, EXCEPT: e. Font

a. Villa Caprese, Rome 16. Art & architecture in the style of the Ancient Greeks & Romans, as
b. Villa Valmarana, Vicenza that of the Italian Renaissance & the English Palladian Style, in the late
c. S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice 18th & early 19th centuries:
d. The Basilica, Vicenza a. Classical
e. Palazzo Thiene, Vicenza b. Greek Revival
c. Gothic Revival
7. The following architects are the major representatives of d. Classical Revival
DECONSTRUCTIVISM, EXCEPT: e. Renaissance Revival

a. R. Buckminster Fuller
b. Frank Gehry 17. This 19th century movement was both an aesthetic and moral
c. Daniel Libeskind crusade; as a reaction against mass-produced goods; & believed that
cheap art is impossible, because all art costs time, trouble & thought”:
d. Bernard Tschumi a. Academic Art
e. Zaha Hadid b. Ecole des Beaux Arts
c. Arts & Crafts
d. Picturesque Movement
8. The unifying structure or concept of an artistic work: e. Garden City
a. Aesthetics
b. Technology 18. The architect of FULLER FLATIRON BUILDING, NEW YORK,
c. Tectonics 1902:
d. Technics a. Henry Hobson Richardson
e. Architectonics b. Louis Henry Sullivan
c. Daniel Hudson Burnham
9. The HALL OF THE TAIHEDIAN (Hall of Supreme Harmony) is a d. William Le Baron Jenney
court located in which Chinese structure: e. William Holabird
a. The Temple of the Sleeping Buddha
b. The Forbidden City, Beijing 19. Generic term for the decorative movement in 1880 – 1910, which
c. The Temple of Heaven had many variants; displaying a wealth of vegetal curves:
d. Summer Palace a. Art Nouveau
e. Porcelain Pagoda b. Beaux Arts
 c. Arts & Crafts 29. The Sun King, Louis XIV’s symbol of France’s age of power &
d. Art Deco influence:
e . De Stijl
a. Reggia of Caserta
20. A gallery or parapet projecting from the Castle wall, with openings b. the Louvre
in the floor through which to drop molten lead, boiling oil or stone c. Windsor Castle
missiles on the enemy below: d. Versailles
a. Machicolation e. the Doge’s Palace
b. Bastion
c. Battlement 30. A bracket system used in traditional Chinese construction to
d. Ballista support roof beams, project the eaves outward, and support the interior
e. Siege Tower ceiling.
a. Siheyuan
b. Zhanglou
c. Dougong
21.A vault characterized by arched diagonal arrises formed by the d. Ang
intersection of two barrel vaults: e. Gulou
a. Tunnel vault 31. The Architect of CAFFÉ PEDROCCHI, PADUA, 1816.
b. Fan vault NEOCLASSICAL/ GREEK REVIVAL Style.
c. Groin vault a. Leo von Klenze
d. Wagon vault b. Giuseppe Jappelli
c. Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
e. Rib vault
d. Victor Horta
e. Charles Rennie Mackintosh
22. This immediately evolved from the Renaissance; a term coined to
describe the characteristics of the work of some 16th century Italian
architects whose work was less rigidly governed by the Stylist rules; an
32. The GERMAN term for ‘”Youth Style”:
unconventional use of Classical elements:
a. Sezessione
a. Baroque
b. Jugendstil
b. Rococo
c. Stile Liberty
c. Classicism
d. Modernismo
d. Mannerism
e. Art Nouveau
e. Antiquarian
33. Gothic in France is known as:
23. A monumental freestanding gateway on the approach to a Shinto
a. Sondergotik
shrine.
b. Style Ogivale
a. Thorana
c. Norman
b. Torii
d. Jugendstil
c. Pailou
e. Tudor
d. Gopuram
e. Pagoda
34. A Hindu temple, may be of the Nagara type or the Dravida type:
a. Vihara
24. Picture recess: a shallow, slightly raised alcove for the display of a
b. Vimana
scroll, painting or flower arrangement.
c. Mandapa
a. Kakemono
d. Mandira
b. Tokonoma
e. Sikhara
c. Ikebana
d. Chashitsu
35. The period or phase of English Gothic characterized by both
e. Bonsai
Geometric Tracery & Curvilinear Tracery:
a. Rayonnant Style
25. Each of the small arc openings ornamenting a Gothic window:
b. Decorated Style
a. Wheel window
c. Lancet Style
b. Cusp
d. Perpendicular Style
c. Transom
e. Flambouyant Style
d. Foil
e. Mullion
36. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic ENGLISH GOTHIC
cathedral:
26. The architect of VILLA CAPRA/ LA ROTONDA, Vicenza, 1550:
a. Exeter
b. Antwerp
a. Baldassare Peruzzi
c. Gloucester
b. Andrea Palladio
d. Canterbury
c. Giulio Romano
e. Winchester
d. Bartolomeo Ammanati
e. Giorgio Vasari
37. As the Parthenon is the Masterpiece of Greek architecture, & the
27. The FIRST GREEK CROSS plan to the S. Peter’s, Rome, Vatican Pantheon of Rome; So it remains for all ages the Masterpiece of
was made by: Byzantine architecture is the HAGIA SOPHIA, Constantinople, built by
a. Michelangelo Buonarroti the architects:

b. Carlo Maderno
a. Apollodorus of Damascus & Anthemius of Tralles
c. Raphael Sanzio
d. Donato Bramante b. Isidorus of Miletus & Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
e. Antonio da Sangallo, the Younger c. Hippodamus of Miletus & Apollodorus of Damascus
d. Isidorus of Miletus & Anthemius of Tralles
28. Published in 1485, the first architectural treatise of the e. Anthemius of Miletus & Isidorus of Tralles
Renaissance, DE RE AEDIFICATORIA, was written by:
38. Built in the 13th to 14th cents., this palace- fortress represents the high- water
a. Andrea Palladio
b. Leone Battista Alberti mark of Islamic architectural achievement in western Europe. Its name means
c. Sir William Chambers Arabic for “Red Castle”. In the Caliphal style, it was built by a succession of
d. Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola Moorish rulers in the Nasrid dynasty. One of the interior courtyards is the Court
e. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio of Lions, with its graceful arcades set atop 124 white marble columns. These
very slender columns with high dosseret blocks carry a perforated arcade-
structure of stucco, incredibly pierced & interlaced to give it a filigree- like 48. The starting gates at one end of the Circus for horse & chariot
delicacy. Identify this building: racing:
a. Diazoma
a. Al- Masjid -Al- Haram, Mecca, Saudi Arabia b. Spina
b. Alcazar, Seville, Spain
c. Cavea
c. Alhambra, Granada, Spain
d. La Mezquita, Cordoba, Spain d. Carceres
e. Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel e. Velarium

49. The architect of the ERECHTHEION, Athens:

39. The warming room in a Monastery: a. Ictinus
a. Calefactory b. Mnesicles
b. Refectory c. Phidias
c. Dormitory d. Callimachus
d. Infirmary e. Callicrates
e. Brewhouse
50. Defined as a particular or distinctive form of artistic expression
characteristic of a period or people:
a. civilization
40. A Picture Gallery:
b. society
a. Glyptotheca
c. culture
b. Thesauros
d. style
c. Odeion
e. history
d. Pinacotheca
e. Stoa
51. Animal motifs found on the capitals at the APADANA OF XERXES
41. A type of Roman fountain designed with a large basin of water: in the Palace of Persepolis:
a. Salientes a. Bull & Dragon
b. Loculi b. Lion & Unicorn
c. Locus c. Bull & Unicorn
d. Cantharus d. Lion & Elephant
e. Font d. Centaur & Minotaur

52. An open portico of columns standing in the front & the rear of a
42. Identify this structure located in Rome, 1732, designed by Niccolo Greek temple:
Salvi & finished by Panini. BAROQUE: a. Peripteral
a. Scala di Spagna b. Distyle-in-antis
b. Scala Regia c. Amphi-prostyle
c. Staircase, Biblioteca Laurenziana d. Amphi- antis
d. Fontana de Trevi e. Prostyle
e. Boboli Gardens

43. A watchtower at the gate on the approach to a Castle:

a. Bastion 53. The colonnade surrounding a courtyard in the Domus:
b. Bartizan a. Peristyle
c. Barbican b. Atrium
d. Bailey c. Hypostyle
e. Casemate d. Prothyrum
e. Cloisters
44. The ornamental pattern work in stone filling the upper part of a
Gothic window: 54. A system of ducts to distribute heat from a furnace to the hot bath
a. Mullion chambers in the Thermae:
b. Stained glass
a. Fauces
c. Tracery
d. Rose window b. Specus
e. Foil c. Hypocaust
d. Xystus
45. In a Traditional Japanese house, an extension of the floor on one or e. Slype
more sides of a Japanese- style house, usually facing a garden &
serving as a passageway or sitting space: 55. The space between Triglyphs:
a. Shoji
a. Regula
b. Shoin
c. Kairo b. Guttae
d. Engawa c. Frieze
e. Irimoya d. Trachelion
e. Metope
46. The internal court, surrounded by an arcade, in an Italian palace:
a. Atrium
56. A raised sanctuary space which later forms the germ of the
b. Corps de Logis
c. Cortile Transept when expanded laterally:
d. Loggia a. Bema
e. Piano Nobile b. Nave
c. Apse
47. A screen between the nave & the chancel of a Byzantine church: d. Ambo
a. Baldacchino e. Narthex
b. Cancelli
c. Iconostasis 57. French term for an ornamental arrangement of flower beds of
d. Cimborio different shapes and sizes:
e. Meshrebeeyeh a. Parterre
b. Belvedere
c. Promenade
 d. Galleria e. 1492 A.D.
e. Enfilade
67. Another name of CONSTANTINOPLE:
a. Anatolia
58. In the Elizabethan mansion, a room for exhibition of art, or a
drawing room: b. Asia Minor
a. Parlour c. Byzantium
b. Boudoir d. Turkey
c. Salone e. Troy
d. Casino
e. Folly
68. A form of decoration on colored wet plaster; MICHELANGELO’s
59. A part of the Elizabethan mansion located in a central position & preferred medium for painting the ceiling of the Sistina chapel:
connecting the various parts of the mansion: a. Palladian motif
a. Long Gallery b. Trompe l’ oleil
b. Great Hall c. Chiaroscuro
c. Piano Nobile d. Contrapposto
d. Grand Staircase e. Fresco
e. Corps de Logis
69. “PHARAOH” means:
60. A wall having cut stones with emphasized recessed joints & smooth a. Pyramid Builder
or roughly textured block faces, characteristic of the Renaissance: b. Great House
a. Cyclopean c. Book of the Dead
b. Quoin d. Amon- Ra
c. Opus Reticulatum e. The Mummy, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
d. Rustication
e. Mosaic
70. Brunelleschi FIRST became famous after winning in a competition
61. The circular or multi-angular termination of a church sanctuary: for the design of _________________:
a. Bema
b. Ambo a. a piece of sculpture
c. Apse b. a dome
d. Dado c. a chair
e. Dais d. a door
e. Robust pill for men
62. The major transverse part of a cruciform church, crossing the main
axis at a right angle between the nave & choir: 71. The orderly, pleasing or congruent arrangement of the elements or
a. Crossing parts of an artistic whole:
b. Transept
c. Triforium a. Proportion
d. Tribune b. Contrast
e. Ambulatory c. Balance
d. Harmony
e. Rhythm

72. This architect was very influential through his writings, including
“Complexity & Contradiction in Architecture” (1967):

a. Eugene- Emmanuel Viollet- le- Duc

63. The FLAVIAN AMPHITHEATRE is otherwise known as:
b. Philip Johnson
a. Colosseum, Rome
c. Robert Venturi
b. Circus Maximus
d. Le Corbusier
c. Thermae of Caracalla
e. Vincenzo Scamozzi
d. Forum Romanum
e. Aqua Claudia
73. On the Psychology of Color: This color means growth, money,
64. The TEMPLE OF HATSHEPSUT, Der-el-Bahari is an example of a: spring, environment, rebirth; is restful, refreshing, suggestive of hope:
a. Ziggurat temple a. Violet
b. Mortuary temple b. Green
c. Cult temple c. Yellow
d. Mastaba tomb
d. White
e. Pyramid complex
e. Blue
65. PREHISTORIC structures found along the coasts of Europe &
Africa, which were believed to serve as “shelter of the spirits” lost at 74. On the Principles of Design: If equally spaced windows are
sea: introduced on the unbroken wall, then regular repetition is present:
a. Dolmen
b. Menhir
c. Tumulus a. Unaccented Rhythm
d. Stonehenge
b. Generic Scale
e. Caves
c. Proportion
d. Human Scale
66. The date of the FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE, thus ending the
e. Accented Rhythm
Byzantine Empire:
a. 325 A.D.
75. MACCHU PICCHU, in the Andes Mts., c. 1500 is an example of:
b. 476 A.D.
c. 800 A.D. a. Linear Form
d. 1453 A.D. b. Elevated Base Plane
 c. Radial Form 82. Separating the members of non- contact species by a bubble or
d. Depressed Base Plane sphere:
e. Wall Plane
a. Personal distance
b. Public distance
76. A type of line that suggests grace, flexibility, continuity, is sensitive, c. Intimate distance
subtle, feminine, emotional, & represents architecture which caters to d. Social distance
the emotional rather than the physical; expresses fluid movement; can
e. Bubble diagram
be calm or dynamic:
a. Zigzag Line
83. Defined as the area around a person or invisible boundary
b. Horizontal Line
c. Diagonal Line surrounding a person’s body into which intruders are unwelcome
d. Curved Line unless invited:
e. Vertical Line
a. Personal space bubble
b. Reserve
77. The study of the communicative value of space, time, body c. Intimacy
positions, & other non- verbal factors in various cultures: d. Privacy
e. Personalization
a. Space Articulation
b. Kinesthetic Qualities of Space 84. U.S. psychologist, ABRAHAM H. MASLOW proposed a hierarchy
c. Circulation of human motives. At the top of the hierarchy, Maslow placed this need
d. Proxemics as the ultimate & desirable goal:
e. Surface Articulation a. shelter
b. self- esteem
78. The NAKAGIN CAPSULE Building, Tokyo, 1972, by Kisho c. self- actualization
Kurosawa is an example of: d. safety
e. sex
a. Centralized Form
b. Clustered Form 85. In Maslow’s formulation, which of the following is at the bottom of
c. Grid Form the hierarchy:
d. Linear Form a. Needs for safety & security
e. Radial Form b. Needs for love and belongingness
c. Physiological or biological needs
79. The proportioning system developed by LE CORBUSIER to order d. Needs for self- actualization & for cognitive & aesthetic
“the dimensions of that which contains & that which is contained”. Le goals
e. Needs for esteem & achievement
Corbusier based this measuring tool on both mathematics & the
proportions of the human body:
86. On the Psychology of Color: This color is soothing to the nervous,
a. Anthropometrics depressing to the morose; is peaceful, tranquil, calm reflection:
b. Modulor a. Brown
c. Furnicube b. Yellow
d. c. Blue
Fibonacci series d. Orange
e. Violet
e. Vitruvian Man
87. Everyone NEEDS to spend time alone. Everyone needs:
80. A form of Continuity that gradually evolves from one thing to
another without a definite break or change: a. Intimacy
b. Solitude
a. Sequence
c. Privacy
b. Juxtaposition
d. Reserve
c. Transition
e. Territoriality
d. Hierarchy
e. Proximity 88. Needs such as hunger, and need for shelter fall under which level
of the pyramid in Maslow’s formulation:

a. Needs for safety & security

b. Needs for love and belongingness
c. Physiological or biological needs
d. Needs for self- actualization & for cognitive & aesthetic
goals
e. Needs for esteem & achievement
81. Social & Interpersonal aspects of Space Perception:
Territorial Behavior: Many animal species that use nests, lairs, or dens
& care for their young act to _________a specifically delimited territory 89. The HOUSE AT STABIO, Switzerland, 1981, by Mario Botta is an
against interlopers: example of:

a. own a. Dimensional Transformation

b. defend b. Additive Transformation
c. fight c. Subtractive Transformation
d. attack d. Radial Form
e. migrate e. Linear Form
90. A property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of 95. This color means love, passion, energy, anger, danger, rage;
a visual field as solid well- defined objects standing out against a less is exciting, stimulating or cheering to the melancholy or lazy, upsetting
distinct background: to the nervous or overactive:
a. ROJO
a. Camouflage b. AMARILLO
c. AZUL
b. Figure- Ground d. Tangerine?
c. Reversible Figure- Ground e. Lavender, bading
d. Ambiguous Figures 96. The idea that “no building is beautiful unless it properly fulfills its
e. Foreground function”, and the idea that” if a building fulfills its function it is ipso facto
beautiful”--- is known as:
91. The study of the history of architectural philosophy, to differentiate
intellectual from practical knowledge in architectural education: a. Metabolism
b. Organicism
a. History of Architecture c. Functionalism
b. Theory of Art d. Futurism
c. Theory of Architecture e. Modernism
d. Philosophy of Art
e. History of Art

92. The following architects are the major representatives of 97. This study affirms that the mind will simplify the visual environment
ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING, EXCEPT: in order to understand it:

a. Louis Khan a. Figure- Ground Theory

b. Pier Luigi Nervi b. Visual Acuity
c. Space Perception
c. Gustave Eiffel
d. Gestalt Psychology
d. Frei Otto e. Architectural Semantics
e. Calatrava, Valls Santiago

93. The following architects are exponents of ART NOUVEAU,

EXCEPT: 98. The AUSTRIAN version of Art Nouveau; So named because its
adherents defected from the official Academy of Art in Vienna:
a. Victor Horta
b. Hector Guimard a. BEAUX ARTS
b. SEZESSIONE
c. August Endell
c. STILE LIBERTY
d. Fritz Hoger d. JUGENDSTIL
e. Antoni Gaudi e. DE STIJL

94. Circulation is Movement through Space.

99. The famous dictum of ADOLF LOOS:
Since we move in __________ through a sequence of
__________…… a. Less is more.
b. Less is a bore.
a. Space- Time c. A house is a machine in which to live in.
d. Form follows function.
b. Time- Space
e. Ornament is a crime.
c. Dance- Music
d. Music- Time
e. Time- Love 100. AT HARVARD, where Walter Gropius’s principal job was ONCE
AGAIN teaching, he started his own firm, as a group of younger men
working with him in full freedom:

a. Bauhaus
b. SOM
c. TAC
d. Taliesin
e. Chicago School