Architecture Flashcards
The tallest building in the United Kingdom which 95-storey skyscraper at London Bridge was designed by Renzo Piano?
The Shard
Who is best known for his work on the Pompidou Centre in Paris the Lloyd’s building and Millennium Dome in London and the Senedd in Cardiff?
Richard Rogers
Which building in Australia known for its large precast concrete ‘shells’ was designed by Jorn Utzon and opened in 1973?
Sydney Opera House
What nationality was Zaha Hadid who designed the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics and died in 2016?
Iraqi
Who was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666 including his masterpiece St. Paul’s Cathedral which was completed in 1710?
Christopher Wren
Designed by William Van Alen which Art Deco-style skyscraper in New York was the tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1930?
Chrysler Building
The rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster after a fire in 1834 was carried out by Charles Barry who was assisted by which other architect who designed the interior of the Palace?
Augustus Pugin
Honoured with a life peerage in 1999 who has designed a number of buildings in London including “the Wobbly Bridge“ “the Gherkin” and City Hall?
Norman Foster
Which style of architecture is named after a 16th century Venetian architect whose work was strongly based on the symmetry perspective and values of the formal classical temple architecture of the Ancient Greeks and Romans?
Palladian
Who designed the titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi which is due to open in 2017?
Frank Gehry
The third and final director of the Bauhaus who is often associated with his quotation of the aphorisms “less is more” and “God is in the details”?
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Which of the classical orders of architecture is characterised by the use of spiral scroll-like ornaments?
Ionic
I.M. Pei designed what glass and steel structure in the courtyard of The Louvre in Paris which serves as the main entrance to the museum?
Pyramid
Known as “the devil’s architect” who designed six London churches including St George’s Bloomsbury Christ Church Spitalfields and St Anne’s Limehouse?
Nicholas Hawksmoor
What name is given to a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head?
Caryatid
Who became the first director of the Bauhaus in 1919?
Walter Gropius
Which architecture prize is given annually by the magazine Building Design to “the ugliest building in the United Kingdom completed in the last 12 months”?
Carbuncle Cup
Designed by CY Lee which building in Taiwan was officially classified as the worlds’ tallest in 2004?
Taipei 101
The RIBA award for excellence in architecture is named after which architect who won the Pritzker Prize in 1981 and designed the Clore Gallery at Tate Britain?
James Stirling
All the principal works of Filippo Brunelleschi including the dome of the Cathedral are in which Italian city?
Florence
Joseph Paxton built the Great Conservatory and the Emperor Fountain at which stately home which has been home to the Cavendish family since 1549?
Chatsworth House
What was the pseudonym of Swiss-French architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret?
Le Corbusier
Edwin Lutyens played a major role in designing and building which city in India?
New Delhi
James Hoban is best known for designing which building in Washington D.C in 1792?
White House
In 1547 who took on the job of completing St Peter’s Basilica begun to a design by Bramante and with several intermediate designs by several architects?
Michelangelo
Which architectural style characterized by its thick walls and round arches developed in the 12th century into the Gothic style? In England it is traditionally referred to as Norman architecture.
Romanesque
The title character of which Ian Fleming novel was named after a Hungarian-born architect famous for modernist buildings in London?
Goldfinger
Which architectural firm designed the Empire State Building?
Shreve Lamb & Harmon
CCTV Headquarters building in Beijing was designed by which Dutch architect?
Rem Koolhaus
Which postmodern American architect who was co-designer of the Seagram Building became the first winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1979?
Philip Johnson
Alison and Peter Smithson were associated with which architectural movement which applied to functionalist buildings of the 1950s and 1960s that made much use of steel and concrete in starkly massive blocks?
(New) Brutalism
Known as the “father of skyscrapers” and “father of modernism” who coined the term “form follows function”?
Louis Sullivan
Tate Modern and its Switch House extension were both designed by which Swiss architecture firm?
Herzog & De Meuron
The earliest surviving written work on the subject of architecture is De architectura written by which Roman architect in the 1st century AD?
Vitruvius
Amongst whose best known works are the Piazza San Pietro (1656–67) and the piazza and the colonnades in front of St. Peter’s Basilica?
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
What is the name of the central section of an entablature which lies between the architrave and the cornice?
Frieze
Which second-generation Japanese American is best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City?
Minoru Yamasaki
What is the name of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous private residence which was constructed from 1935 to 1939 at Bear Run Pennsylvania?
Fallingwater
The Hotel Tassel and Hotel Solvay both in Brussels and designed by Victor Horta were early examples of which architectural style popular between 1890 and 1910 which was a reaction against the eclectic styles which dominated 19th century European architecture?
Art Nouveau
Which ornament is a representation of a herbaceous plant or shrub and appears extensively in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders?
Acanthus
Turner Contemporary in Margate was designed by which British architect who was knighted in 2010?
David Chipperfield
English Gothic architecture is divided into three periods – Early English Decorated and which other period? Eton College Chapel is built in this style.
Perpendicular
John Wood the elder and John Wood the younger were principally known for their work including the Royal Crescent and The Circus in which English city?
Bath
John Vanbrugh’s reputation was irreparably damaged following accusations of extravagance and impracticability over the construction of which country house?
Blenheim Palace
Barrel groin rib and fan are all types of what architectural feature?
Vault
Who gained international recognition in 1949 when he won the competition for the design of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park?
Kenzo Tange
The tallest building in Scandinavia which residential skyscraper in Malmo was designed by Santiago Calatrava?
Turning Torso
Which architectural style common to the Midwestern United States and usually marked by horizontal lines is mostly associated with Frank Lloyd Wright?
Prairie School
The architect George Gilbert Scott Jr. died in which hotel in London which was designed by his father and opened in 1873?
Midland Grand Hotel
Probably the last entry in any Dictionary of Architects which Swiss architect designed the Therme Vals hotel/spa complex in Graubünden?
Peter Zumthor
