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1. The Art and Science of Designing and Constructing 6. It is an anthropometric scale of proportions devised
a building by Le Corbusier. It was developed as a visual bridge
between two incompatible scales, the Imperial system
a. Agriculture and the Metric system. It is based on the height of an
b. Archeology English man with his arm raised.

c. Architecture a. Le Modular

d. Astronomy b. Modulor

2. A center of a field. c. Modular

a. Point d. Modular System

7. These architects believes that their buildings had to
b. Line
belong to a higher order, returned to the Greek
c. Plane mathematical system of proportions.
d. Volume a. Roman Architects
3. In tropical climates, facing these sides are regarded b. Renaissance Architects
as the “hot sides”
c. Filipino Architects
a. North and South
d. 20th century Architects
b. East and West
8. He was an early proponent of mental mapping and
c. West and South notable with is book, The Image of the City.
d. North and East a. Kevin Lynch

4. A movement of being independent to the tradition of b. Frederick Law Olmstead

antiquity after the Gothic style.
c. Ebenezer Howard
a. Art Nouveau
d. Daniel Burnham
b. Art Deco
9. A slight convexity given to a column or tower, as
c. Beaux-Art to correct an optical illusion.

d. Neoclassicism a. Enthasis

5. If CCP Complex is an architectural territory of the 3rd b. Entasis

National Artist for Architecture, then Escolta is
c. all of the above
__________ territory?
d. none of the above
a. Juan Arellano
10. What is the regular size of a twin size mattress?
b. Juan Nakpil
a. 38” x 75”
c. Antonio Toledo
b. 53” x 75”
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c. 60” x 80” c. Romanesque

d. 76” x 80” d. Gothic
11. Which of the following hues is in harmony with each 16. Most of Leandro Locsin’s Architectural styles are?
other?
a. Deconstructivism
a. Red, Red-orange and yellow
b. Brutalism
b. Blue, Blue-violet and red-violet
c. Modern
c. Green, Orange and Red
d. Post-Modern
d. Red-violet, Violet, Red
17. What Element of a city does a river represent?
12. Which of the following is a representation of two
point? a. Edge

a. Obelisk b. Path

b. Menhir c. Node

c. Minaret d. Landmark

d. Torii 18. A wide area of parks of undeveloped land

surrounding a community.
13. “One of the great beauties of architecture is that
each time, it is like life starting all over again.” a. Landscape

a. Norman Foster b. Meadow

b. Renzo Piano c. Grass and Plants

c. Jean Nouvel d. Greenbelt

d. Santiago Calatrava 19. What is the comfortable height of a kitchen counter

for Filipinos?
14. It is the point of contact between mass and space
a. 0.80m
a. Volume
b. 0.85m
b. Linear Form
c. 0.90m
c. Architectural Form
d. 0.95m
d. Form
20. What style mostly influences Philippine
15. What is the original Architectural style of Manila government structures?
Cathedral in Intamuros?
a. Baroque
a. Baroque
b. Romanesque
b. Rococo
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d. Neoclassicism 26. An efficient & rapid transport system for

automobiles to circulate across urban to urban areas
21. What style mostly influences Philippine churches?
a. Highway
a. Baroque
b. Streets
b. Romanesque
c. Freeway
c. Beaux-Art
d. Main roads
d. Neoclassicism
27. Where should be the location of tree foliage in order
22. The principle of Functionalism is based on this to promote air motion into openings?
Architect’s dictum.
a. above the openings
a. Frank Lloyd Wright
b. below the openings
b. Walter Gropius
c. before the openings
c. Luis Sulllivan
d. after the openings
d. Luis Khan
28. Air enters through openings located in the
23. What would be the effect of rapid increase of windward side means?
population in an urban area?
a. Air enters through openings located in the
a. Loss of business opportunity positive pressure zone.
b. Increase of mortality rates b. Air enters through openings located in the negative
c. Increase of informal settlers pressure zone.

d. All of the above c. Air enters through openings located in the neutral
pressure zone.
24. What is the best way to lessen noise cause by
traffic? d. None of the above

a. Tall trees 29. A small window located right under the barandilla.
That allows air to come into the house through
b. Ground Grass Covers elaborate grillwork or wooded balustrades.
c. 3-ft wall fence a. Bangguerahan
d. Bushes b. Ventanillas
25. Also called the blood stream of a city. c. Volada
a. Infrastructure d. Concha
b. Transportation 30. What is the maximum distance of hedges and
shrubs away from a building to still be effective?
c. Urban Planning
a. not more than 2 meters
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b. not more than 3 meters a. Hotel de Oriente

c. not more than 4 meters b. Manila Hotel
d. not more than 5 meters c. Dusit Hotel
31. The Architect-author of the much-acclaimed book, d. Dusit Hotel
“Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.”
36. Referring to the last question, who was the
a. Richard Neutra architect of its renovation?
b. Norman Foster a. Francisco Maniosa
c. Robert Venturi b. Leandro Locsin
d. Philip Johnson c. William Parsons
32. Which of the following megacities has the most d. Yolanda Reyes
efficient public transportation, which accounts for
almost 80% of all journey. While the other megacities 37. He was a recipient of National Artist award in
are struggling with heavy traffic. Architecture for his belief that there is such a thing as
Philippine Architecture, adopting architecture relative
a. Seoul of Philippine tradition and culture.
b. Manila a. Juan Nakpil
c. Tokyo b. Juan Arellano
d. Beijing c. Juan Manosa
33. The First Skyscraper in the Philippines which is d. Juan Locsin
only 4 storey high.
38. A School of design established in Germany called
a. Ambassador Hotel "Bauhaus" was founded by?
b. GSIS Building a. Peter Brehens
c. Manila Hotel b. Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
d. Dusit Hotel c. Le Corbusier
34. Referring to the last question, who was the d. Walter Gropius
architect of the said skyscraper?
39.
a. Leandro Locsin
b. Froilan Hong
c. Fernando Ocampo
d. Gabriel Formoso
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41.

St. Pierre Church, Firminy was designed by Le What type of form transformation in the figure shown
Corbusier is an example of this type of transformation above?
a. Dimensional transformation a. Dimensional transformation
b. Subtractive transformation b. Subtractive transformation
c. Additive transformation c. Additive transformation
d. None d. None
40. 42. Referring to the last question, the building is
called?
a. Tokyo tower
b. Nakagin tower
c. Cube tower
d. Kurukawa Tower
43. Which of the following is an example of Art deco?
a. Ideal Theater by Pablo Antonio
b. Manila City Hall by Antonio Toledo
c. Manila Post Office by Juan Arellano
What type of additive transformation occurred in d. SM megamall by Jose Sindiong
Habbitat 67, Montereal?
a. Grid Form
b. Radial Form
c. Cluster Form
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articulation did Santiago Calatrava and Felix Candela

emphasized?
a. Repetition
b. Balance
c. Rhythm
d. Scale
47. The balanced distribution and arrangement of
equivalent forms and spaces on opposite sides of a
44. dividing line or plane or about a center axis?
Fom the illustration, which defines "space within a a. Axis
space"? b. Symmetry
a. A c. Hierarchy
b. B d. Transformation
c. C 48. A 20th century problem emanating from rapid
d. D urbanization of areas surrounding a city
a. Squatting
45. From the illustration, which defines "space linked
by a common space"? b. Urban sprawl
c. Pollution
a. A
d. traffic
b. B
49. What civilization who had the following: - no need
c. C
for defensive walls due to its geographical location. -
d. D no zoning, no defined blocks for housing. -
46. dependence on Nile river - fascinated with after life.
a. Roman Civilization
b. Egyptian Civilization
c. Greek Civilization
d. Aegean Civilization
50. A geographic area which residents conveniently
share the common services and facilities needed in the
vicinity of their dwellings.
a. Neighborhood
City of Arts and Sciences design by Santiago Calatrava
b. Organization
and Felix Candela. An entertainment-based cultural
and architectural complex in the city of Valencia, Spain. c. Street
It is the most important modern tourist destination in
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51. Primary development of any community. d. all the above

a. Urban pattern 56. The state or position of being placed close together
or side by side to permit comparison or contrast
b. Master Plan
a. Hierarchy
c. Building Codes
b. Juxtaposition
d. Site development
c. Complexity
52. “Laws of the indies” town is also known in Spanish
as? d. Opposition
a. Pueblo 57. A phenomenon of light and visual perception that
may be described in terms of an individual’s perception
b. Mission of hue, saturation and tonal value.
c. Poblacion a. Shape
d. Presido b. Color
53. A variable of urban decoration where the c. Texture
environment is to have an understandable simple
pattern of signs and clues. d. Tones
a. Harmony 58. The size or proportion of a building or space, or an
article of furniture, relative to the structural or functional
b. Unity dimensions of the human body
c. Balance a. Scale
d. Rhythm b. Module
54. It is one of the most influential books in architecture c. Human Scale
history. It contains the author’s design celebrating the
purity and simplicity of classical architecture. d. Modulor
a. 10 books of Architecture 59. Written by the Roman architect and dedicated to
his patron, the Emperor Ceasar Augustus as a guide
b. 8 books of Architecture for building projects.
c. 4 books of Architecture a. De Re Aedificatoria Libri Decem
d. 2 books of Architecture b. Tutte L’ Opere D’ Architettura Et Prospetiva
55. Which of the following is a bahay kubo adaptation c. De Architectura
of passive cooling?
d. Le Architectura
a. Use of Fans
60. Which of the following is not a Pritzker Architecture
b. The living platform is elevated on stilts Prize Laureate?
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b. Joseph Stirling d. Seagram building

c. Shigeru Ban 65. This known architect is also a part of this said
building. He designed the interior of The Four Seasons
d. Louis Khan and Brasserie restaurants.
61. The Articulation of the importance or significance a. Luis Khan
of a form or space by its size, or placement relative to
the other forms and spaces of the organization. b. Le Corbusier
a. Sequence c. Walter Gropius
b. Hierarchy d. Philip Johnson
c. Datum 66. A Collection of forms grouped together by proximity
or the sharing of a common visual trait.
d. Transformation
a. Centralized
62. A philosophy of architecture that emerge in early
20th century, asserting that a building should have a b. Clustered
structure and plan that fulfills its functional
requirements, harmonize with its natural c. Radial
environmental, and form an intellectually lucid, d. Grid
integrated whole.
67. Which spatial organization that has a central space
a. Beaux-Arts from which linear organizations of space extend in a
b. Sustainable Architecture radial manner.

c. Art Nouveau a. Centralized

d. Organic Architecture b. Clustered

63 Which of the following is a Pritzker Architecture c. Radial

Prize Laureate? d. Grid
a. Luis Barragan 68. He pioneered the profession landscape
b. Kisho Kurukawa architecture in the Philippines that’s why he was
known for being the Father of Philippine Landscape
c. Tony Kettle Architecture.
d. Bjarke Ingles a. Idelfonso P. Santos
64. Mies van der Rohe first envisioned the all-glass d. Felino Palafox
skyscraper in 1920. A 38 storey of black steel and
glass. A structure that could not be built that time. c. Jose Ma Zaragoza
a. Lakeshore drive apartment d. Francisco Manosa
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69. A 40 hectare land housing program by the c. Human Settlement

government with the objective of diverting part of
Manila’s population to new satellite communities. d. Defensible Space

a. Bliss 74. Which of the following lot type is not ideal or

least desirable for a public school?
b. Philam Life homes
a. Inside lot
c. Philippine Homesite and Housing Corporation
b. Corner through lot
d. Philippine Socialized housing program
b. corner lot
70. Stack effect or Chimney effect means?
d. through lot
a. Hot air or gas tends to rise
75 Which of the following site location is the most
b. Air flows tends to stay desirable for a boutique hotel?
c. Cold air or gas tends to rise a. within 2km radius from a hospital
d. Air flows through a path of least resistance
b. accessible from the airport
71. Pronounced by King Philip which Influenced the
c. within the CBD
Spanish Town Planning. All new towns must have a
central plaza surrounded by important buildings d. beside a casino establishment
with portales or arcades, and from which the principal
streets, laid out in a grid pattern, shall begin. 76. The spirit of the place is referred to as __________.
a. The Law of the Indians a. Genius loci
b. The Laws of the Spaniards b. Local Soul
c. The Laws of the Indies c. Landscape Elements
d. The Laws of the Plaza d. Urban Landscape
72. Which is not a factor that influence a settlement 77. City shape that develops its from transformation
pattern? spines or natural valleys.
a. Human Development a. sheet
b. Transportation System b. radiocentric
c. Physical Environment c. branch
d. Government Policies d. linear
73. This is a delimited space that a person or a group 78. What is the most practical street layout?
of persons uses and defends as an exclusive preserve.
a. Curvilinear
a. Territory
b. Grid
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c. Meandering 83. A Latticework panels that framed the translucent

capiz shells used to completely shut windows at night
d. Circumferential or during a storm.
79. A Greek city is composed of the following except a. Concha
for:
b. Coquina
a. Town
c. Calado
b. Acropolis
d. Volada
c. Temple
84. It indicates data on circulation system within the
d. Agora
area. These includes bridges, roads, airports and
80. It is one of Michael Angelo’s finest works seen navigable railways, ports, harbors, water bodies.
at a distance as a whole composition. It is notable
a. General land use map
by its Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurellus as a
centerpiece. b. Sewage disposal map
a. Athens c.Topographic map

b. Rome d. Transportation map

c. Adelphi Terrace 85. What colors will harmonize and contrast (Split
Complimentary) Yellow?
d. Campidoglio
a. Red-violet and Blue-violet
81. A building design approach that focuses on heat
gain control and heat dissipation in a building in order b. Red-orange and Yellow-orange
to improve the indoor Thermal comfort with low or no
c. Yellow-green and Blue-green
energy consumption.
a. Green design d. Blue-green and Blue-violet

b. Tropical Design 86. This color will aid Red to stand-out or will dilute its
intensity.
c. Passive cooling
a. Blue
d. Active cooling
b. Green
82. A tool use to identify the passive cooling strategy
appropriate for the building site. c. Yellow

a. Sun path diagram d. orange

b. Bioclimatic Chart 87. It was the first to give the explanation of distribution
of social groups within urban areas.
c. Climatic Chart
a. Concentric Zone Theory
d. Solar Chart
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c. Multiple Nuclei Theory 92. This movement believed that such beautification
could promote a harmonious social order that would
d. Inverse Concentric zone Theory increase the quality of life.
88. It considers the dependency of people in a. City Beautiful Movement
automobiles as residents are not concentrated in a
single CBD rather with manufacturing also and other b. Garden City
industries.
c. Image of the City
a. Concentric Zone Theory
d. CBD
b. Sector Theory
93. Architects of Centre Pompidou
c. Multiple Nuclei Theory
a. Richard Meier and Norman Foster
d. Inverse Concentric zone Theory
b. Zaha Hadid and Renzo Piano
89. First Garden City is located at
c. Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano
a. Manhattan, New York
d. I.M Pei and Bjarke Ingles
b. Hamburg, Germany
94. He was one of the founders of Art Nouveau in
c. Bonifacio Global City, Taguig 1890s.
d. Letchworth, United Kingdom a. Felix Candela
90. A merging of two or more metropolis with a b. Victor Horta
population of 10 million or more, a 20th century
phenomenon. c. Adolf Loos
d. Antoni Gaudi
a. Highly Urbanized City
95. Historically inspired by some of the First man-made
b. Threshold of Population shelter, the term usually used to refer to the
c. Town construction of roofs using a membrane held in
place on steel cables. Frei Otto first demonstrated this
d. Megacity in German Pavilion, Expo ’67. Their main
characteristics are the way in which they work under
91. The process by which large numbers of people stress tensile, their ease of pre-fabrication, their ability
become permanently concentrated in relatively small to cover large spans, and their malleability.
areas, forming cities.
a. Thin-shell construction
a. Urbanization
b. Tensile structure
b. Megacity
c. Pre-stressed concrete
c. Urban sprawl
d. Post-tensioning
d. CBD
96. It is the “First Prairie House” designed by FLW.
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b. Kaufmann house a. Fernando Ocampo

c. Winslow house b. Gabriel Formoso
d. Wright House c. William Coscolluela
97. They worked under Peter Behrens except for, a. Antonio Sindiong
a. Frank Lloyd Wright 102. Which of the following is the work of Ar. Jose
Maria Zaragosa?
b. Le Corbusier
a. Meralco Building
c. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
b. San Agustin Church
d. Walter Gropius
c. Quiapo Church
98. His dictum was, “Architecture is a concern for
design as a Gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art.” d. San Miguel Building
a. Alvar Aalto 103. The first phase of the circulation system during
which we are prepared to see, experience and use the
b. Bruno Paul building.
c. Albert Speer a. Entrance
d. Otto Wagner b. Spatial Organization
99. His dictum was, “Architects must have a razor- c. Approach
sharp sense of individuality” and he coined the term
“Biorealism”, a belief in the inherent and inseparable d. Building form
relationship between nature and man.
104. A widely used spatial organization.
a. Albert Speer
a. Centralized
b. Alvar Aalto
b. Linear
c. Frank Furness
c. Radial
d. Richard Neutra
d. Grid
100. He holds the distinction of being the first
105. Building served as façade to form an enclosure
registered architect of the Philippines.
urban space.
a. Tomas Mapua a. Fortress
b. Sto. Tomas b. Acropolis
c. Carlos Barretto c. Agora
d. Felipe Arroyo d. Intramuros
101. He was the architect of the building in the 100 106. In the ancient times, when a town reaches its
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a. Paleopolis a. Richard Neutra

b. Neopolois b. Frank Lloyd Wright
c. Acropolis c. Lucio Costa
d. Polis d. Oscar Niemeyer
107. Polis means? 112. A combined horizontal and vertical shade is called
a. City a. Louvers
b. Town b. Egg-create sunshade
c. People c. Egg and dart sunshade
d. Park d. Dynamic Shutters
108. He is considered as the first architect in the history 113. A human settlement is made up of five elements,
of urbanistic to make use of the advantages of the which are interactive and independent with each other.
modern method. These are man, nature, shells, networks and society.
a. Hippodamus a. Ekistics
b. Indigo Jones b. Proxemics
c. Leon Batista Alberti c. Chandigarh
d. Biagio Rossetti d. Broadacre
109. The father of American City Planning. Plans for 114. It affects where people can go, and where they
Chicago, San Francisco, etc. cannot
a. Clarence A. Perry a. Legibility
b. G.R. Taylor b. Variety
c. Frederic Olmstead c. Permeability
d. Daniel Burnham d. Robustness
110. The architect who fused ideas of modern 115. In designing a corridor, what should be the ideal
architecture and city form “Une Ville Contemporaine” width for a three person walking at the same time?
a. Richard Neutra a. 1200mm
b. Le Corbusier b. 1500mm
c. Charles Adam c. 1650mm
d. Buckminster Fuller d. 1800mm
111. He made the master plan of Brasilia, the Capital 116. What is the comfortable reach for vertical
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a. 1.10m-1.30m 121. Zoning ordinances are used by municipalities as

a means of controlling all of the following except.
b. 1.40m-1.50m
a. Project cost
c. 1.50m–1.70m
b. Density of development
d. 1.60m-1.80m
c. Flood impact
117. A frame of latticework used as a screen or as a
support for climbing plants. d. Land use
122. Major and minor routes of circulation which people
a. Trellis
use to move about.
b. Pergola
a. Pathways
c. Arbor b. Edges
d. Gazebo c. Districts
118. A map that shows the spatial allocation of built-up d. Landmarks
areas categorized as residential, commercial,
institutional, parks and open spaces, industrial and 123. In a residential development composed of large
others. lots, on-site sewage disposal for each lot is permitted
subject to the sustainability of the soil. Which of the
a. general land use map following soil investigations should the architect
b. urban land use map request?

c. base map A, Percolation test

d. topographic map b. Evaporation test

119. Parking lots should be in an area where slope is c. Test for soil alkalinity
below ____ otherwise grading is to be done. d. Test for soil density
a. 3% 124. It refers to the population per unit land area.
b. 5% a. Density
c. 7% b. Population
d. 10% c. Demographics
120. Acknowledged as the oldest city in the history of d. Urban population
settlements.
125. Major event which led to the establishment of
a. Babylon planning as a profession
b. Eridu a. World war II
c. Constantinople b. Industrial Revolution
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c. Colonization c. Mixed-use development

d. Population growth d. Low-density development
126. Which is required in building at a terraced site 131. What type of urban road which are meant for
location: through traffic usually on a continuous route. It also
expected to carry large volumes of traffic.
a. use of retaining walls
a. Arterial roads
b. Be elevated on raised pad
b. Expressways
c. provide an earth berm
c. Service roads
d. Use explosion
d. Collector roads
127. Open land Wildlife needs to be avoided in
selecting a site for this project. 132. He developed the neighborhood principle based
on the natural catchment area of community facilities
a. Skyscrapers such as primary schools and local shops.
b. Airports a. Clarence Perry
c. Malls b. Frederick Olmstead
d. Hospitals c. Clarence stein
128. The “Cradle of Civilization” d. Arturo Soria Y Mata
a. Persia 133. The architect known for his use of concrete,
b. Fertile crescent floating volume and simplistic design in various
projects. He was proclaimed a National Artist of the
c. Egypt Philippines for Architecture in 1990.
d. Mycenaean civilization a. Juan Nakpil
129. The first noted urban planner who introduced the b. Frederico Illustre
grid system and the agora.
c. Francisco Manosa
a. Arthemus
d. Leandro Locsin
b. Hippodamus
134. It was one of the Father of modern picture books
c. Miletus of architecture best known legacies to the architectural
world.
d. Spartacus
a. La Rotonda
130. These are characteristics of Urban Sprawl except
for: b. Sagrada Familia
a. Single-use development c. Villa Sovoye
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135. The president of the United States who is also an 140. The architect of contemporary arts center which
architect with a style of Neo-Classicism. Notable with made this architect a Pritzker Architecture in laureate
his work Monticello in Virgina in 2004.
a. George Washington a. Thom Mayne
b. George W. Bush b. Glenn Murcutt
c. Thomas Jefferson c. Richard Rogers
d. Theodore Roosevelt d. Zaha Hadid
136. Architect of Jones Bridge in Manila 141. He is considered as one of the most influential
Filipino architect of the 20th century for pioneering the
a. Juan Arellano art of Philippine neo-vernacular architecture. He was
b. Juan Nakpil recognized as National Artist of the Philippines for
Architecture in 2018.
c. Pablo Antonio
a. Juan Nakpil
d. Daniel Burnham
b. Frederico Illustre
137. Which of the following is not a work of Antoni
Gaudi? c. Francisco Manosa

a. Sagrada Familia d. Leandro Locsin

b. Parc Guell 142. What is the Architectural style of The dancing

house by Frank Ghery?
d. Casa Milla
a. Deconstructivism
d. Casa Balto
b. Constructivism
138. The architect of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
c. Post modernism
a. Ieoh Ming Pei
d. Modernism
b. Norman Foster
143. What is the Architectural style of Folk Arts
c. Bjarke Ingles Theatre?
d. Daniel Libeskind a. Deconstructivism
139. The architect of Millennium bridge in London b. Brutalism
a. I.M Pei c. Neovernacular
b. Norman Foster d. Functionalism
c. Bjarke Ingles 144. “Make no little plans; They have no magic to stir
men’s blood”
d. Daniel Libeskind
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b. Louis Khan 150. “Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the
major drivers and has been from the very beginning.”
c. Buckminster Fuller
a. Tadao Ando
d. Robert Venturi
b. Rem Khoolas
145. “More is More.”
c. I.M Pei
a. Daniel Burnham
d. Kenzo Tange
b. Mies Van der Rohe
151. Is a variety in the use of gradation from black to
c. Buckminster Fuller white.
d. Robert Venturi a. Texture
146. Cube within a cube b. Color
a. Le Corbusier c. Hue
b. Mies Van der Rohe d. Tone
c. Walter Gropius d. Robert Venturi 152. What is the psychological effect of Purple?
147. “Art and Architecture, the new unity.” a. sedative & soothing
a. Le Corbusier b. rage or passion
b. Mies Van der Rohe c. stimulating cheering
c. Walter Gropius d. cooling quality
d. Robert Venturi 153. What is the psychological effect of Blue related in
148. “The city must be subject to growth, decay and architecture?
renewal.” a. Cooling quality
a. Tadao Ando b. Peace & tranquil
b. Mies Van der Rohe c. stimulates hunger
c. I.M Pei d. demands attention
d. Kenzo Tange 154. When the designer applies stunning Yellow as an
149. “I believe that the way people live can be directed accent wall in a room what does it pertains?
a little by Architecture.” a. Cooling quality
a. Tadao Ando b. helps one to concentrate
b. Rem Khoolas c. stimulates hunger
c. I.M Pei d. demands attention
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155. When the designer applies blue in a room what is 160. It is the relation between the parts of a
the effect it gives? composition and a certain abstract unit of
measurement.
a. Cooling quality
a. Scale
b. helps one to concentrate
b. Proportion
c. stimulates hunger
c. Ken
d. demands attention
d. Size
156. In the Philippines Habagat refers to?
161. It is a sense of equilibrium.
a. Winter monsoon
a. Balance
b. Northeast Monsoon
b. Contrast
c. Summer Monsoon
c. Unity
d. Tropical Monsoon
d. Character
157. Villa Sovoye is Le Corbusier’s finest example of
this Architectural principle 162. The remaining space in a lot after deducting the
required minimum open spaces.
a. Five points of Architecture
a. Open area
b. Organic Architecture
b. Buildable area
c. High-Tech and sustainable Architecture
c. Parks
d. Five books of Architecture
d. Unpaved area
158. Louis Khan is known for this sytle
163. It is the side of a building that faces the prevailing,
a. Monumental and Grandeur or trade, winds. It also depends on the wind force that
b. Classic-Modern is alongside the height of a structure or building.

c. Deconstructivism a. Leeward

d. International Style b. Windward

159. Robbie House is best known for this principle. c. Both sides

a. Symmetrical Balance d. none of the above

b. Rhythm 164. Designed to regulate land use, to ban industry &

commerce from residential areas & to separate
c. Asymmetrical Balance different types of living units
d. Progression a. zoning
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c. clustering 169. A line of demarcation that creates visual interest

in a landscape by separating one segment from
d. none of the above another. Also known as border.
165. The study of the dynamic relationship between a a. lining
community of organism & its habitat.
b. trimming
a. geology
c. edging
b. ecology
d. floating
c. biology
170. The forcing of the viewer’s perspective to a central
d. botany or focal point. The use of symmetry or balance creates
166. It is a park in cities and other incorporated a more intense viewers perspective, while
places to offer recreation and green space to residents asymmetrical designs soften or even avoid viewer’s
of, and visitors to, the municipality. perspective.
a. forming
a. urban park
b. centralization
b. playground
c. landmark
c. quadrangle
d. focalization
d. plaza
171. The inanimate elements of landscaping,
167. An Arboricultural term literally, a cone-bearer. It
especially any masonry work. For instance, stone
reproduce by forming a cone rather than a flower as a
walls, brick patios and tile paths
container for their seeds.
a. Softscape
a. Broadleaf
b. Hardscape
b. conifer
d. Streetscape
c. Bonsai
d. Landscape
d. climber
172. A 6m high tree near a 15m high building is
168. Shedding foliage at the end of the growing considered as a _________.
season; used especially in reference to trees.
a. dwarf tree
a. Doxiadis b. Medium tree
b. conifer c. Large tree
c. deciduous d. Tall tree
d. climber 173. It was designed by Andre Le Notre, an 800
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largest garden ever made in France. The garden is an d. transmission

example of a French formal garden.
178. it is an imaginary line that join points of equal
a. Hanging garden elevation on the surface of the land above or below a
reference surface such as the mean sea level.
b. Gardens of Versailles
a. Topography
c. Secret garden
b. Map
d. Gardens of France
c. Contours
174. The animate, horticultural elements of
d. Slope
landscaping.
179. What type of street comes from a collector street
a. Softscape
to an individual property and provides access to an
b. Hardscape abutting property?
d. Streetscape a. cul-de-sac
d. Landscape b. minor street
175. Shrubs or bushes grows up to a height of less than c. marginal access street
_________.
d. arterial street
a. 5 meters
180. What would you recommend to use as a traffic
b. 4 meters separator below arcades?
c. 3 meters a. bollards
d. 2 meters b. fountain

176. Which of the following is not a Hardscape c. planting strips

element?
d. fence
a. gazeebo 181. What type of transformation of form do you
b. balcony observe in the door tracery of Reims Cathedral

c. riprap a. Dimensional Transformation

b. Subtractive transformation
d. berm
c. additive transformation
177. It is important to determine the existing availability
of utilities on site in terms of adequacy and efficiency. d. Multitude transformation
This includes the following except for:
182. This is the path of a moving point.
a. Drainage
a. Point
b. Electric power supply
b. Line
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d. Plane a. Path
c. Volume b. Landmark
183. Human perception is one of the factors in c. Edges
designing of building, which of the followings are
mostly affected through human perception. d. Nodes

a. Demography and geography

b. Anthropology and sociology
b. Geography and anthropology
d. demography and Sociology
184. Who is the founding father of the Philosophy of
Deconstructivism?
a. William Becket 188.

b. Frank Ghery As shown in the image, it may be identified as?

c. Jacques Derrida a. Point

d. None of the above b. Line

185. It organizes a random pattern of elements through c. Plane

its regularity, continuity, and constant presence.
d. Volume
a. Hierarchy
189. Which of the following facilities is more
b. Axis important to consider to aide a General hopsital.
a. School
c. Transformation
b. Fire Station
d. Datum
c. Hospital
186. Which is not and Urbanization Problem d. Catholic Church
a. Emerging of large malls in a city 190. It is to determine pleasing dimensional
relationships between the width of a building and its
b. Increasing number of poverty and slum creation height, the size of the portico and even the position of
c. Increasing number of schools the columns supporting the structure. The final result is
a building that feels entirely in proportion.
d. conversion of agricultural lot to subdivision
development a. Silver Ratio
b. Golden Ratio
187. It is the point reference considered to be external
top the observer physical elements that may vary c. Pythagorean theorem
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191. Alvar Aalto’s Seinäjoki Public Library is an 196 The internal organization or "anatomy" of a city,
example of this ordering principle including the pattern of land uses, ethnic and income
a. Hierarchy groups, infrastructure, housing types, industrial types,
and so on.
b. Axis
a. Urban Pattern
c. Transformation
b. Community
d. Datum
c. Urban Morphology
192. Adrea Paladio’s Villa Capra is an example of this
type of Symmetry. d. Urban development

a. Bilateral 197. A habitable room for 1 family with facilities for

living, sleeping, cooking & eating.
b. Radial
a. Low-end dwelling
c. Mirror
b. High-end dwelling
d. Formal
c. residential
193. The Falling Water was designed by?
d. Dwelling unit
a. Frank Ghery
198. What is the architectural style of Vigan City, Ilocos
b. Frank Lloyd Wright Sur
c. Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe a. Philippine Architecture
d. Zaha Hadid b. Ilocano Architecture
194. Inventor of Geodesic Dome which was based on c. Phil-Hispanic Architecture
the principle of Spaced Frame.
d. Vernacular Architecture
a. Frei Otto
199. A planar element which can be manipulated well
b. Kenzo Tange to establish a podium for a building form.
c. Toyo Ito a. Base plane
d. Buckminster Fuller b. ground plane
195. The rough equivalent of the present tenement d. Floor plane
cities that existed in ancient Rome
d. Wall plane
a. Insula
200. “A harmonious design requires that nothing be
b. Agora added or taken away.”
c. Fortress a. Frank Lloyd Wright
d. Forum b. Louis Sullivan

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c. Zhardei Naranjo
d. Vitruvius

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