The space reserved for the bishop at the end of the church is ____?

- A) Nave B)
Dome C) Bema D) Apse - D
Church plan of the Early Christian is _____? - A) Basilican B) Greek cross C) Latin
cross D) Calvary cross - A
In the Early Christian's church atrium is a fountain of water for ablution that is
similar to our present day. - A) Stoup B) Water Basin C) Cistern D) Moat - B
The high altar is covered above by a canopy called _____? - A) Ambo B) Confession
C) Baldachino D) Carpet - C
The space for clergy and choir is separated by a low screen wall called _____? - A)
Podium B) Ambo C) Cancelli D) Ciborium - C
The Iconoclastic Movement during the Byzantine period forbade the use of ____ for
representations. - A) Glass mosaic B) Statues C) Gargoyles D) Carvings - B
Due to its length, the Early Christian church gives an impression of ______. - A)
Horizontality B) Airiness C) Spaciousness D) Magnificence - A
When the dome and the pendentives are part of the same sphere, the dome is
classified as? - A) Acute B) Double c) Simple D) Complex - C
The masterpiece of Byzantine architecture is? - A) S. Vitale, Ravenna B) S. Mark,
Venice C) S. Sophia, Constaninople D) S. Theodore, Constantinople - C
For pictorial representations, the head and shoulders of Christ is placed on the? -
A) Walls B) Ceiling of apse C) Ceiling of the dome D) Pendentives - C
Principal material for the Byzantine architecture? - A) Marble B) Granite C) Adobe
D) Brick - A
Church plan of the Romanesque Church. - A) Fleur de lis B) Papal cross C) Latin
cross D) Greek - C
Character of Romanesque. - A) Sober and dignified B) Simplicity and harmony C)
Lofty and inspiring quality D) Structural honesty - A
In Romanesque architecture, door and window openings have jambs or sides formed in
a series of receding moulded planes known as? - A) Orders B) Piers c) Mouldings D)
Ornaments - A
Characteristic feature of Romanesque in N. Italy is the wheel window and the? - A)
Flying buttress B) Central projecting porch C) Caryatid porch D) Fanlight - B
Walls of the Romanesque churched are relieved by shallow buttresses or pilaster
strips, connected at the top by? - A) Wheel window B) Corbel arches C) Cornice D)
Columns - B
The Church which is half-Gothic, half-Renaissance and known present as S. Maria del
Fiore? - A) Pantheon, Rome B) Florence Cathedral C) S. Andrea, Mantua D) Superga,
Turin - B
In Gothic architecture, the upper story of the nave walls rising above the aisle
roof which is pierced with widows is the? - A) Aisle vault B) Walkways C) Blind
story D) Clear story - D
The characteristic Renaissance wall that have cut stoned with strongly emphasized
recess joints and smooth or roughly textured block faces is? - A) Polychrome
brickwork B) Sgraffito C) Rusticated masonry D) Polygonal facing - C
It is known as the architecture of the curve line? - A) Renaissance B) Art Nouveau
C) Greek D) Baroque - D
It is very usual in English Gothic cathedrals to include a chapel in honor of the
Virgin Mary called? - A) Chantry Chapel B) Perpetual Chapel C) Widow's D) Lady
Chapel - D
The ornamental pattern work in stone filling upper part of a Gothic window is? - A)
Stained glass B) Billet moulding C) Tracery D) Keystone - C
The characteristic Norman church in England is? - A) York B) Durham C) Oxford D)
Guildford - B
The third largest Gothic cathedral in Europe is? - A) Bristol B) Doge's palace C)
Amiens D) Cologne - D
The forerunner of Gothic in France was? - A) Francois Mansard B) Villard de
Hannecourt C) Arnolfo di Cambio D) Christopher Wren - B
The period known as the Early English period of the Gothic style in England and
which is less massive in character and simple in ornament is the? - A) Lancet B)
Rayonnant C) Rectilinear D) Parallel - A
It is the peiod in French Gothic which is characterized by flame-like or free-
flowing window tracery. - A) Rectilinear B) Curvilinear C) Arcuated D) Flamboyant -
D
One characteristic feature of German Gothic is its use of? - A) Limestone B) Brick
C) Marble D) Concrete - B
Gothic character of verticality was neutralized in Italy by? - A) Corbel arches B)
Ancones C) Horizontal cornices D) Sgraffito - C
Spanish Gothic interiors are characterized by the use of? - A) Rajas B) Iconostas
C) Tore D) Piedra China
Gothic means? - A) Architecture of the curve line B) Departure of the curve line C)
Restoration D) Ressurection of the curve line - B
The earliest form of dwelling developed by man is the? - A) Hut B) Rock cave C)
Megaron D) Tipi - B
The Stonehenge is an example of? - A) Ziggurat B) Stone Circle C) Stone Row D)
Pyramid - B
Early type of tomb architecture in Egypt was the? - A) Mastaba B) Pyramid C) Tholos
D) Assuary - A
Characteristic feature of Egyptian external wall is that it is? - A) Levered B)
Battered C) Plain D) Embattled - B
The torus mould in Egyptian temples were used to cover the ___ of the walls? - A)
Angles B) Base C) Cornice D) Jambs - A
Persian Architectural character is described as ____ and airy magnificence. - A)
Heavy B) Vertical C) Light D) Serene - D
Assyrian system of construction is essentially? - A) Trabeated B) Arcuated C)
Buttressed D) Cantilevered - B
The favorite motifs of design of the Egyptian include the lotus, papyrus, and? - A)
Palm B) Scarab C) Rope D) Feather - A
Structures which corners were made to face the four cardinal points were the? - A)
Ziggurat B) Temple C) Tombs D) Pyramid - A
The four-seated colossal statues of Rameses III are carved in the facade of the? -
A) Mammisi Temple B) Great Serapeum C) Ramesseum D) Great Temple, Abu Simbel - D
The palace proper found in Assyrian palaces called? - A) Seraglio B) Khan C)
Thalamus D) Caravanserais
Ziggurats are also called? - A) Sacrificial altars B) Dwelling houses of the gods
C) Precinct D) Holy Mountain - D
The famous Hanging Gardens is found in the? - A) Temple of Marduk B) Palace of
Nebuchadnezzar C) Palace of Sargon D) House of the Rising Sun - B
A style of decoration in architecture and applied art developed principally in
France and Belgium toward the end of the 19th century, characterized by organic and
dynamic forms, whiplash lines and curving designs. - A) Art deco B) Art nouveau C)
Beaux-arts D) Neo-classic - B
One of the most important architecture of the Early Victorian period and designed
by Sir Joseph Paxton. - A) Art deco B) Crystal Palace C) Eiffel Tower D) Library of
St. Genevieve, Paris - C
Romanesque revival in the USA was introduced by? - A) Louis Khan B) Henry
Richardson C) Frank Lloyd Wright D) Richard Upjohn - B
The architect whose works clearly express the principle of functionalism and was
call the Father of Modern Architecture in USA. - A) Louis Sullivan B) Frank Lloyd
Wright C) Robert Venturi D) Philip Johnson - A
The Chief chamber containing the statue in Greek temple is? - A) Opisthodomos B)
Naos C) In-antis D) Peribolus - B
The passageway leading to the main vault of the tholos is called? - A) Stele B)
Columbaria C) Spina D) Dromos - D
The slight curvature of the Greek column is called? - A) Entasis B) Plinth C)
Abacus D) Echinus - A
The Roman palatial public bath. - A) Gymnasium B) Laconicum C) Triclinia D) Thermae
- D
Structure used for gladiatorial contests. - A) Spina B) Amphitheaters C) Skene D)
Tholos - B
The Greek wrestling school is called? - A) Stoa B) Gymnasia C) Palaestra D)
Bouleuterion - C
The sunk panels found in the ceiling of Greek temple is the? - A) Metope B)
Quadrigas C) Agora D) Lacunaria - D
A temple arranged with a single line of columns surrounding the naos is called? -
A) Peristyle B) Peripteral C) Dodecastyle D) Apteral - B
A recess or alcove with raised seat where disputes took place is the? - A) Crest B)
Rollock C) Exedrae D) Niche - C
The triangular termination of the roof of a Greek temple. - A) Pediment B) Mutules
C) Antefixae D) Triglyph - A
The popularly used column in the Greek is? - A) Tuscan B) Corinthian C) Ionic D)
Doric - D
The traditional Maranao house for the ordinary members of the community is? - A)
Walay B) Lamin C) Torogan D) Dema - A
The only surviving structure of the 1945 war in Intramuros is the? - A) San Juan de
Letran College B) Manila Cathedral C) San Agustin Church D) Iglesia de San Ignacio
- C
The private sleeping room in the bahay kubo is called? - A) Calado B) Bangahan C)
Silid D) Tampipi - C
The mezzanine floor in the bahay na bato - A) Alcoba B) Latrina C) Entresuelo D)
Volada - C
Found in the ground floor of the bahay na bato, it is where the carriages and
saint's floats or andas are usually kept. - A) Patio B) Entresuelo C) Garahe D)
Zaguan - D
This is the cistern found underneath the azotea - A) Dema B) Aljibe C) Calado D)
Dulang - B
The church in Bohol that containes the biggest number of murals on the walls and
ceilings. - A) Loboc B) Cortes C) Laon D) Jaga - A
It is the first all steel building in the Philippines. - A) Manila Hotel B) San
Sebastian Church C) Intendencia Building C) Philippine Normal School - B
The architect of the Philippine General Hospital. - A) William Parsons B) Juan
Arellano C) Ralph Doane D) Tomas Mapua - A
The Chicago architect who prepared the Manila Plan under the American Colonial
Period. - A) George Fenhagen B) Edgar Bourne C) Pierce Anderson D) Daniel Burnham -
D
He defined architecture as: utilitas, firmitas, venustas - generally translated as
utility, firmness, and delight. - A) Violet Le Duc B) Vitruvius C) Louis Sullivan
D) Henry Richardson - C
Roofs, domes, vaults and balustrades comprises the? - A) Circulatory elements B)
Structural elements C) Protective elements D) Decorative elements of a structure -
C
The ____ forms of a structure are organized according to their origin, composition
and treatment. - A) Decorative B) Structural C) Protective D) Circulatory - A
The line that is described as sturdy, masculine. - A) Straight B) Curved C)
Amorphous D) Irregular - A
Is a decorative treatment when forms and shapes are arranged in a diminishing or
increasing manner. - A) Repetition B) Alternation C) Gradation D) Radiating - C
It has two dimensions and articulated with color, tone and texture. - A) Platonic
Solids B) Volume C) Surface D) Mass - C
The ____ of a form depends on its geometry as well as its orientation relative to
the ground plane and our line of sight. It also signifies the degree of
concentration and stability of a form. - A) Orientation B) Visual inertia C)
Position D) Silhouette - B
It works together with a practical design to the end that out of this collaboration
grows a building which is not only functional but also pleasing in appearance. - A)
Parti B) Aesthetic design C) Form within to without D) Functional Design - B
It is a term used to describe the work of those architects who prefigured the
International and Functionalist Period of the Modern Movement. It is the outward
manifestation of a design through an individual articulation. - A) Organic B)
Eclectic C) Expressionism D) Deconstructivism - C
The easiest and simplest kind of balance is the purely symmetrical type in which
the elements are arranged in precisely the same manner on either side of a central
axis or line. - A) Occult balance B) Formal balance C) Symmetrical balance D)
Asymmetrical balance - D
A German design school founded in Weimar in 1906. It became the most important and
influentital design school of the 20th Century. - A) CIAM B) Bauhaus C) Deutscher
Werkbund D) Chicago School - B
Style fashionable in the 1920s and 1930s in industrial design, interior design, and
architecture. One of the best known building in this style is the Chrysler Building
in New York City. - A) Art Deco B) Jugendstil C) Functionalism D) High Tech - A
The architect of the AEG Turbine Factory, Berlin. - A) Max Berg B) Walter Gropius
C) Peter Behrens D) Gunther Bernisch - C
A movement initiated by Le Corbusier and characterized above all by the use of
beton-brut raw, unfinished concrete. - A) Classicism B) Brutalism C) Baroque Style
D) Expressionism - B
English architect and engineer, a leading representative of High Tech architecture.
His projects include HK and Shanghai Bank, Hongkong, the Carre d'Art Gallery,
Nimes, the Reichstag, Berlin and the Great Court, London. - A) Sir Norman Foster B)
Richard Buckminster Fuller C) Theo van Doesburg D) Robert Venturi - A
Swiss architect active in France, one of the most influential architects and
theorists of the 20th century. His works include Villa Savoye, Poissy; the Unite
d'Habitation, Marseille; and the Pilgrimage Church, Ronchamp. - A) Charles Edouard
Jeanneret B) Charles Rennie Mckintosh C) Richard Meier D) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- A
Japanse movement founded in 1960 by a group of archtitects and city plannes. Their
aim was to ease urban congestion and expand cities by adopting innovative types of
structures. - A) Megastructure B) Metabolism C) Modernism D) Functionalism - B
American architect of Chinese origin. His firm is one of the largest architectural
firms in the US. Buildings he designed included the Hancock Tower, Boston; Bank of
China, Hongkong; and the Pyramid at the Louver, Paris. - A) IM Pei B) Cesar Pelli
C) Ken Yeang D) Renzo Piano - A
Less is a bore. Is the famous saying of? - A) Louis Sullivan B) Frank Lloyd Wright
C) Robert Venturi D) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - C
A Filipino architect who designed the much acclaimed stage setting for the New York
premier of Lucifer, danced by Fonteyn and Nureyev in honor of the Martha Graham
dance company's golden anniversary. - A) Juan Nakpil B) Felipe Mendoza C) Pablo
Antonio D) Leandro Locsin - D
The actual dimension in terms of length, width, and depth. - A) Shape B) Height C)
Length D) Size - D
The part of a connected series. - A) Line B) Link C) Sides D) Arc - B
The contour and structure of an object as distinguished from its substance or from
the matter composing it. - A) Area B) Facade C) Form D) Perspective - C
That which deceived the eye. - A) Entasis B) Superposition C) Point D) Trompe
L'oeil - D
One of the most influential architect of the Italian Renaissance who proposed the
seven most beautiful and proportionate manners of rooms. - A) Palladio B) Bramante
C) Michaelangelo D) Bernini - A
A center of interest to the most important aspect of a design scheme. - A) Focus B)
Facade C) Elevation D) Contrast - A
Architecture characterized by free, abstract, monumental form. - A) Minimalism B)
Functionalism C) Expressionism D) Brutalism - D
Outline of the human face, distinctive outline. - A) Dominance B) Side view C)
Profile d) Picture - C
The line or point where two things are joined or hinged. - A) Corner B) Junction C)
Angle D) Boss - B
General formula to explain a phenomena. - A) Theory B) Research C) Survey D) Test -
A