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Question 1 of 62

1

What is the English translation of the Greek arkhitekton?

Select one of the following:

  • Developer, chief.

  • Builder, carpenter, mason.

  • Architect.

  • Teacher, designer.

Explanation

Question 2 of 62

1

Who is the most notable architect from Ancient Egypt?

Select one of the following:

  • Hatshesput

  • Hestia

  • Imhotep

  • Djoser

Explanation

Question 3 of 62

1

Which continent is not a part of the Silk Road?

Select one of the following:

  • North America

  • Africa

  • Asia

  • Europe

Explanation

Question 4 of 62

1

Who is the author of the 1921 book Toward a New Architecture?

Select one of the following:

  • Frank Lloyd Wright

  • Louis Kahn

  • Robert Moses

  • Le Corbusier

Explanation

Question 5 of 62

1

Who is the architect of the African-American History and Culture Smithsonian Museum?

Select one of the following:

  • Frank Gehry

  • David Adjaye

  • Zaha Hadid

  • I.M. Pei

Explanation

Question 6 of 62

1

What is the definition of mastaba?

Select one of the following:

  • Adobe hut.

  • Mass grave.

  • Stepped pyramid.

  • Burial mound.

Explanation

Question 7 of 62

1

Whose name is inscribed on the Pantheon?

Select one of the following:

  • Julius Caeser

  • Marcus Agrippa

  • Octavius Augustus

  • Alexander the Great

Explanation

Question 8 of 62

1

Where is the Hagia Sophia located?

Select one of the following:

  • Istanbul

  • Mecca

  • Jerusalem

  • Urfa

Explanation

Question 9 of 62

1

Who designed the New Gourna Housing Project in Upper Egypt?

Select one of the following:

  • Rasem Badran

  • Hassan Fathy

  • Le Corbusier

  • Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil

Explanation

Question 10 of 62

1

Who did not contribute to the Critical Regionalism movement?

Select one of the following:

  • Kenneth Frampton

  • Alexander Tsonis

  • Bernard Rudofsky

  • Liane Lefaivre

Explanation

Question 11 of 62

1

Which of the following vernacular based projects is not located in India?

Select one of the following:

  • Plan Obus

  • Chandigarharhar

  • Indian Institute of Management

  • Mill Owners' Association Building

Explanation

Question 12 of 62

1

Which author studied feet and shoes as part of his larger observations on the vernacular?

Select one of the following:

  • Aldo Rossi

  • Karl Friedrich Schinkel

  • Ebenezer Howard

  • Bernard Rudofsky

Explanation

Question 13 of 62

1

What term is used to describe economically viable and densely inhabited tenement buildings in ancient Rome that were inhabited by the working class?

Select one of the following:

  • villas

  • tabernae

  • domus

  • insulae

Explanation

Question 14 of 62

1

Which is the following is not a mechanism of global interconnectedness?

Select one of the following:

  • Common histories

  • Comparable technologies

  • Similar modalities

  • Shared sodalities

Explanation

Question 15 of 62

1

Which of the following became modalities following the growth of sea trade?

Select one of the following:

  • Migrant cities.

  • Inner cities.

  • Port cities.

  • None of the above.

Explanation

Question 16 of 62

1

What stage of visualizing great architecture includes the actual discovery of a new land?

Select one of the following:

  • Conceptualizing territory.

  • Marking site.

  • Finding site.

  • Pre-mediating intervention.

Explanation

Question 17 of 62

1

The stepped pyramids of Djoser fall into which category of historic architectural evolution?

Select one of the following:

  • Rise of cities and settlements

  • From space to place

  • Creation of architecture

  • The primordial shelter

Explanation

Question 18 of 62

1

Which term refers to a non-kin affiliation group organized for a specific purpose?

Select one of the following:

  • Modality

  • Sodality

  • Sphere of influence ahg

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 19 of 62

1

Who is the author of the book De Architectura?

Select one of the following:

  • Caesar Augustus

  • Claudius Ptolemy

  • Marcus Vitruvius

  • Le Corbusier

Explanation

Question 20 of 62

1

Which individual building was constructed for a world exhibition?

Select one of the following:

  • the Crystal Palace

  • the Diamond Palace

  • the Plaid Palace

  • the Emerald Palace

Explanation

Question 21 of 62

1

Which book was written by Andrea Palladio?

Select one of the following:

  • Architecture of the City

  • De Architectura

  • Quattro Libri

  • Collage City

Explanation

Question 22 of 62

1

Who proposed the demolition of several blocks of Paris to implement a series of residential skyscrapers?

Select one of the following:

  • Frank Lloyd Wright

  • Le Corbusier

  • Louis Kahn

  • Alvar Aalto

Explanation

Question 23 of 62

1

What was Stalinallee?

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

Explanation

Question 24 of 62

1

Which dichotomy was most carefully controlled in the Indian Institute of Management?

Select one of the following:

  • Light and shadow.

  • Noise and silence.

  • Expansion and compression.

  • Rigidity and free flow.

Explanation

Question 25 of 62

1

What is the definition of bricolage?

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

Explanation

Question 26 of 62

1

Which master plan incorporated a number of groundscrapers?

Select one of the following:

  • Chandigarharhar.

  • Plan Voisin.

  • Berlin Free University.

  • Savannah, Georgia

Explanation

Question 27 of 62

1

Which garden composition did not use living trees in its design?

Select one of the following:

  • Safavid Gardens

  • Taj Mahal

  • Great Umayyad Mosque of Damascus

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 28 of 62

1

What garden composition was designed that needed irrigation from Euphrates?

Select one of the following:

  • Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

  • Ziggurat at Ur

  • Stepped Pyramid of Saqqara

  • Hanging gardens of Babylon

Explanation

Question 29 of 62

1

In which landscape design was there little distinction between the indoors and outdoors?

Select one of the following:

  • Safavid Gardens at Isfahan

  • Taj Mahal

  • Central Park

  • Hadrian's Villa

Explanation

Question 30 of 62

1

Which of the landscapes/garden compositions had no visible geometry?

Select one of the following:

  • Hadrian's Villa

  • Gardens of Palazzo Piccolomini

  • Palace of Versailles

  • Stowe Gardens

Explanation

Question 31 of 62

1

Who is responsible for the landscape of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville?

Select one of the following:

  • John Adams

  • Thomas Jefferson

  • Beanjameen Frankburn

  • James Madison

Explanation

Question 32 of 62

1

Who designed the New Gourna Housing Project in Upper Egypt?

Select one of the following:

  • Rasem Badran

  • Hassan Fathy

  • le Corbusier

  • Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil

Explanation

Question 33 of 62

1

Who designed the 'Salt' City of Chaux?

Select one of the following:

  • Filarete

  • Etienne-Louis Boulee

  • King Louis XVI

  • Claude Nicolas Ledoux

Explanation

Question 34 of 62

1

What text did Saint Augustine author?

Select one of the following:

  • World of God

  • City of God

  • Town of God

  • House of Bob, my neighbor.

Explanation

Question 35 of 62

1

Who destroyed Persepolis to leave an impression behind?

Select one of the following:

  • Alexander the Great

  • Mausolus

  • Genghis Khan

  • Campanella

Explanation

Question 36 of 62

1

What is a cenotaph?

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

Explanation

Question 37 of 62

1

What is the artistic movement that is based on architectural fantasy, mixing elements of the existing and imaginary?

Select one of the following:

  • Chiaroscuro

  • Contrapposto

  • Capriccio

  • Craqueleure

Explanation

Question 38 of 62

1

What group believed that a buildings aesthetic value is defined by its functionality and the practicality of materials used?

Select one of the following:

  • Constructivists

  • Deconstructivists

  • Modernists

  • Post Modernists

Explanation

Question 39 of 62

1

The legendary Tower of Babel was a structure built in what part of the world?

Select one of the following:

  • the land east of the Indus River

  • the land of Punt (Somalia)

  • the land of Muscovy

  • the land of Shinar (Babylonia)

Explanation

Question 40 of 62

1

Le Corbusier was involved in the design of...

Select one of the following:

  • Broadacre City proposal

  • Indian Institute of Management

  • Chau Chal Wing Building, University of Sydney

  • none of the above

Explanation

Question 41 of 62

1

Which of the following is a mechanism of global interconnectedness?

Select one of the following:

  • common philosophies

  • comparable technologies

  • similar modalities

  • all of the above

Explanation

Question 42 of 62

1

Which of the following was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright?

Select one of the following:

  • SC Johnson Administration Building, Racine

  • Museum of Biodiversity, Panama City

  • Crystal Palace, London

  • Villa Savoye, Poissy

Explanation

Question 43 of 62

1

What structure was originally constructed as a mastaba?

Select one of the following:

  • Tower of Babel

  • Heb-Sed

  • Zoser’s Stepped Pyramid

  • Watchtowers of Kaiping, China

Explanation

Question 44 of 62

1

Which continent was not part of the Silk Road?

Select one of the following:

  • North America

  • Africa

  • Asia

  • Europe

Explanation

Question 45 of 62

1

Who was the architect and designer of Zoser's Pyramid?

Select one of the following:

  • Hatshepsut

  • Imhotep

  • Hestia

  • Scary Imhotep from The Mummy

Explanation

Question 46 of 62

1

Which of the following is one of the fundamental principles of architecture suggested by Vitruvius?

Select one of the following:

  • firmness

  • commodity

  • delight

  • all of the above

Explanation

Question 47 of 62

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 48 of 62

1

What is one the features of Safavid Gardens at Isfahan?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 49 of 62

1

What concept influenced Thomas Jefferson’s design for the University of Virginia at Charlottesville?

Select one of the following:

  • democracy and architecture

  • control of light and shadow

  • modernism

  • all of the above

Explanation

Question 50 of 62

1

The city of Chandigarh is...

Select one of the following:

  • first planned city in India post-independence

  • an unbuilt city designed by Le Corbusier

  • an example of traditional city

  • all of the above

Explanation

Question 51 of 62

1

Which of the following is a function of temple gardens?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 52 of 62

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 53 of 62

1

Which building designed by Frank Gehry to mimic geological movements became an icon for Panama City?

Select one of the following:

  • Chau Chal Wing Building

  • Museum of Biodiversity

  • Guggenheim Building

  • Falling water

Explanation

Question 54 of 62

1

Who is the goddess of hearth, home architecture, domesticity, and state?

Select one of the following:

  • Hatshepsut

  • Nefertiti

  • Imhotep

  • Hestia

Explanation

Question 55 of 62

1

What is the definition of mastaba?

Select one of the following:

  • adobe hut

  • mass grave

  • stepped pyramid

  • burial mound

Explanation

Question 56 of 62

1

Which of the following is a modality?

Select one of the following:

  • a medieval guild

  • the Silk Road

  • a village

  • the Roman military

Explanation

Question 57 of 62

1

Which ancient Mediterranean region is known as the "cradle of civilization"?

Select one of the following:

  • Eygpt

  • Greece

  • Mesopotamia

  • Constantinople

Explanation

Question 58 of 62

1

Which of the following is not an associational quality of architecture?

Select one of the following:

  • figure and ground

  • arrangement

  • form

  • aesthetics

Explanation

Question 59 of 62

1

Which architect designed Saynatsalo Town Hall (1951)?

Select one of the following:

  • Alvar Aalto

  • Le Corbusier

  • Oscar Neymeyer

  • Louis Kahn

Explanation

Question 60 of 62

1

What was the name of Aldo Rossi's typological study on the fabric of the city?

Select one of the following:

  • Essay on Architecture

  • Architecture of the City

  • Cities of Tomorrow

  • De Architectura

Explanation

Question 61 of 62

1

Which park did Bernard Tschumi design with a grid of red "follies"?

Select one of the following:

  • Four Freedoms Park

  • Washington Park

  • Parc de la Vilette

  • the High Line

Explanation

Question 62 of 62

1

In which city is Louis Kahn's Indian Institute of Management located?

Select one of the following:

  • Chandigarh

  • Ahmedabad

  • Isfahan

  • Deir el-Bahari

Explanation

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