History of Architecture Flashcards
In Egyptian architecture, the tomb of the pharaohs is the.
Pyramid
The great pyramid at Gizeh was built during the 4th dynasty by?
Cheops
The beginner of the great hypostyle hall at karnak and the founder of the 19th dynasty.
Rameses 1
The mineral of greatest importance to Greek architecture of which Greece and her domains had ample supply of was ________.
Marble
Greek architecture was essentially.
Columnar trabeated
Forming the imposing entrance to the acropolis and erected by the architect Mnesicles is the _________.
Propylaea
The building in the acropolis generally considered as being the most nearly perfect building ever erected is the ________.
Parthenon
With the use of concrete made possible by pozzolan, a native natural cement, the Romans achieved huge interiors with the ________.
Arch and vault
The outstanding group of Romanesque is found in ___.
Pisa
The dining hall in a monastery, a convent, or a college.
Refectory
A Muslim temple, a mosque for public worship, also known as place for prostration.
Masjid
In Mesopotamian architecture, religion called for temples made of sun-dried bricks.
Ziggurat
Earthen burial mounds containing upright and lintel stones forming chambers for consecutive burials for several to a hundred persons.
Tumuli
Senate house for chief dignitaries in Greek architecture
Prytaneion
What architectural term is termed to be free from any historical style?
Art Noveau
Another term for crenel or intervals between merlon of a battlement.
Embrasures
Who erected the earliest known obelisk at Heliopolis.
Senusret I
The highest sloped pyramid in Gizeh
Pyramid of Khufu
Caryatid porch is from what architecture?
Greek
A hall built in Roman Empire for the administration of justice.
Basilica
A compound bracket or capital in Japanese architecture.
Masu-gumi
A Filipino architect whose philosophy is ‘the structure must be well oriented’.
Caesar Homer Concio
Major contribution of the Renaissance Architecture.
Baroque for of Ornamentation
King Zoser’s architect who was deified in the 26th dynasty.
Imhotep
Art Noveau style first appeared in what structure.
Tussel House
Less is more.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Formal architecture, one of the principles of composition.
Balance
The falling water by Frank Lloyd Wright is also known as ___.
Kaufman House
Architect of the national library, Philippines.
Felipe Mendoza
The convex projecting molding of eccentric curve supporting the abacus of a Doric capital.
Echinus
A slight vertical curvature in the shaft of a column.
Entasis
cubicula or bedroom is from what architecture.
Roman
Memorial monuments of persons buried elsewhere in Roman architecture.
Cenotaphs
A shallow cistern or drain area in the center of a house.
Impluvium
A raised stage reserved for the clergy in early Christian churches.
Bema
A roman house with a central patio.
Atrium House
The style emerging in western Europe in the early 11th century, based on Roman and Byzantine elements, characterized by massive articulated wall structures, round arches, and powerful vaults, and lasting until the advent of Gothic architecture.
Romanesque
The public square of imperial Rome.
Forum
How many stained glass are there in the Chartres Cathedral?
176
A plant whose leaves form the lower portions of the Corinthian capital.
Acanthus
A windowed wall that rises above the roof of adjacent walls that admit light into the interior.
Clerestory
A line of counterthrusting arches on columns or piers.
Arcade
Parts of an entablature, in order of top to bottom.
“Cornice
Frieze
Architrave”
A special feature of Japanese houses, used to display a flower arrangement or art.
Tokonama
Triangular piece of wall above the entablature.
Pediment
The principal or central part of a church, extending from the narthex to the choir or chancel and usually flanked by aisles.
Nave
A large apsidal extension of the interior volume of a church.
Exedra
A recess in a wall to contain a statue or other small items.
Niche
The Buddhist temple in ancient Cambodia which feature four faces of the compassionate Buddha.
Bayon
A slab forming the crowning member of the capital.
Abacus
A low screen wall enclosing the choir in early Christian church.
Chancel
The palace proper in Assyrian palaces.
Seraglio
Private family apartments in Assyrian palaces.
Harem
Favorite motifs of design of the Egyptians.
Palm, Lotus, and Papyrus
Structure whose corners are made to face the four cardinal points.
Ziggurat
The use of monsters in doorways is prevalent in what architecture?
Persian
A single line of columns surrounding the Naos.
Peripteral
A building in Greek and Roman for exercises or physical activities.
Gymnasium
Temple with a portico of columns arranged in front.
Prostyle
Intercolumniation of 4 diameters.
Areostyle
Diastyle intercolumniation has how many diameters.
3 Diameters
Roman building for which gladiatorial battles took place.
Colosseum
A temple with 1-4 columns arranged between antae at the front.
In Antis
Greek order that has no base.
Doric
What allowed the Romans to build vaults of a magnitude never equaled till the birth of steel for buildings.
Use of Concrete
Who commenced the ‘hall of hundred columns’?
Xerxes
Master sculptor of the Parthenon.
Phidias
The oldest circus in Rome.
Circus Maximus
A water clock or an instrument for measuring time by the use of water.
Clepsydra
Architect of the Temples of Zeus, Olympia.
Libon
A quadrigas is a ___.
4-horse Chariot
Greek sculptures may be classified as “architectural sculpture, free standing statuary, and the ___”.
Sculptured Reliefs
The wall or colonnade enclosing the Temenos
Peribolus
Roman large square tiles.
Bepidales
A type of Roman wall facing with a net-like effect.
Opus Recticulatum
A type of monument erected to support a tripod, as a prize for athletic exercises or musical competitions in Greek festivals.
Choragic Monument
Marble mosaic pattern used on ceilings of vaults and domes.
Opus Tesselatum
The origin of the door architrave.
Timber-enframed Portal
A building in classic architecture decorated with flowers and plants with water for the purpose of relaxation.
Nymphaeum
The dominating personality who became an ardent disciple of the Italian renaissance style.
Iñigo Jones
Architect of the Great Serapeum at Alexandria.
Ptolemy III
Architect of the Lung Center of the Philippines.
George Ramos
The cold or unheated pool in the Thermae.
Frigidarium
The room for oils and unguents in the thermae.
Unctuaria
Orientation of the Etruscan temple is towards the ___.
South
On either side of the choir, pulpits for the reading of the epistle and the gospel are called.
Ambo
The iconoclastic movement during the Byzantine period forbade the use of ___.
Statues
The supreme monument of Byzantine architecture.
St. Sophia, Constantinople
A tower raised above a roof pierced to admit light.
Lantern
The best example of a German Romanesque church with apses at both east and west ends.
Worms Cathedral
The final plan shape of the St. Peter’s Basilica by Carlo Maderna.
Latin Cross
The granary in traditional Bontoc House.
Falig
The part of the Corinthian capital without flower.
Balteus
The senate house of the Greeks.
Prytaneion
In the Doric Order, the shaft terminates in the ___.
Hypotrachelion
This temple is dedicated to ‘Wingless Victory’.
Temple of Nike Apteros, Athens
From what architecture is the Stoa?
Greek
A small private bath found in Roman houses or palaces.
Balneum
A is a machine to live in.
Le Corbusier
Invented reinforced concrete in France.
Hennevique
Sculptor for the Bonifacio Monument.
Guillermo Tolentino
Like Caryatids and Atlantes, this is a three-quarter length figures.
Herms
Where “Constructivism” originated?
Moscow
Combination of the new art and the graphing of the old art.
Eclecticism
Architect of the Batasang Pambansa.
Felipe Mendoza
The architect of the Quiapo Church before its restoration.
Juan Nakpil
Architect of SM Megamall.
Antonio Sin Diong
The tower atop the torogan where the princess and her ladies in waiting hide during occasions.
Lamin
The flat, open terrace open to the toilet, bath, and kitchen areas and also used as a laundry and drying space and service area for the servants.
Azotea
Quiapo Mosque is designed by which architect?
Jorge Y. Ramos
Who was the designer of the Regina Building in Manila?
Andrea Luna de San Pedro
Who was the architect of the 1st Manila City Hall Building?
Edgar Bourne
Works of National Artist Leandro Locsin.
Makati Stock Exchange / Philippine Plaza Hotel / Benguet Corporation Building / Church of the Risen Lord / Cultural Center of the Phil. / The Parish of the Holy Sacrifice, UP Diliman
In which architectural work was the brutalist finish first used?
Asian Development Bank Headquarters
Father of Philippine Architecture and the very first National Artist for Architecture
Juan Nakpil
The recommended proportions of a plaza, according to the Law of the Indies
01:01.5
The walls of Intramuros would be first begun under which Spanish Governor General?
Gov. Gen. Gomez Perez Dasmariñas
The main purpose of implentation of the Laws of the Indies was for:
Evangelization
the SSS building was designed by?
Juan Nakpil
The proskenion is found in a:
Skene
Patrons of a therma would change clothes in the:
Apodyterium
A quarter round concave greek molding:
Cavetto
An in antis temple was:
Aegean
An acropolis would usually be entered through a:
Propylea
Term for the rear room or area of a greek temple
opisthodomos
Spanish colonial roof tiles:
tejas
The parian district of manila during the spanish colonial period was meant for:
Chinese
The star vault was developed during which period?
English Gothic
Who is the architect of Manila City hall?
Antonio Toledo
The Taj Mahal is an indictive style of what architecture?
Mughal Architecture
Which of the order was added by the Romans to the orders used by the Greeks.
Composite
From the 5th century to the present, the character of Byzantine architecture is the practice of using ________.
Domical roof construction
The finest and remaining example of Byzantine architecture.
St. Sophia, Constantinople
The architectural character of the Romanesque architecture is.
Sober and dignified
Romanesque architecture in Italy is distinguished from that of the rest of Europe by the use of what material for facing walls.
Marble
The most famous and perfect preservation of all ancient buildings in Rome.
Pantheon
The space between the colonnade and the naos wall in Greek temple.
Pteroma
Amphitheaters are used for ___.
Gladiatorial Contests
The architecture of the curved line is known as ___.
Baroque
The open court in an Italian palazzo.
Cortel
Domical mound containing a relic.
Stupa
The style of the order with massive and tapering columns resting on a base of 3 steps.
Doric
A semi-circular or semi-polygonal space, usually in church, terminating in axis and intended to house an altar.
Apse
Architect of the Einstein Tower.
Erich Mendelsohn
From what architecture is the Angkor Vat?
Cambodian
Taj Mahal temple is located in ___.
Agra
Jubilee festivals of the pharaohs.
Heb-sed
A vault created when two barrel vaults intersect at the right angles.
Groin Vault
Female statues with baskets serving as columns.
Canephora
The Parthenon is from what architecture.
Greek
A concave molding approximately quarter round.
Cavetto
What is not required as a feature in modern Muslim mosque.
Pinnacle
“A house is like a flower pot”
Richard Josef Neutra
The council house in Greece.
Bouleuterion
A faced without columns or pilaster in renaissance architecture.
Astylar
First school which offered architecture in the Philippines.
Liceo de Manila
Different historical styles combined.
Eclecticism
First president and founder of PAS.
Juan Nakpil
The xerxes hall of hundred columns was introduced during the Mesopotamian architecture, which palace was it used.
Palace of Persepolis
Pantiles used for Chinese roofings.
S-tiles
The very ornate style of architecture developed in the later renaissance period.
Baroque
From the Greek forms of temple, the three where it lies is known as ___.
Crepidoma
The three pyramids in Gizeh
“Cheops
Chefren
Mykerinos”
In Greek temples, the equivalent of the crypt is the ___.
Naos
A decorative bracket usually taking the form of a cyma reversa strap.
Console
Revival of classical Roman style
Romanesque
Architect and furniture designer.
Alvar Aalto
Architect of Manila Hilton Hotel.
Welton Becket
Agora is from what architecture?
Greek
Structure of wedge-shaped blocks over an opening.
Arch
A standard, usually of length, by which the proportions of a building are determined.
Module
In the classical order, the lowest part or member of the entablature; the beam that spans from column to column.
Architrave
Plan shape of a Chinese pagoda.
Octagonal
Plan shape of a Japanese pagoda.
Square
A spherical triangle forming the transition from the circular plan of a dome to the polygonal plan of its supporting structure.
Pendentive
The covered walk of an atrium.
Ambulatory
An ornamental canopy of stone or marble permanently place over the altar in a church.
Baldachino
A tower in the Muslim Mosque used to call people to prayer.
Minaret
A term given to the mixture of Christian, Spanish, and Muslim 12th-16th century architecture.
Mudejar
The crowning member of a column.
Capital
The cold section of a Roman Bath.
Frigidarium
Holy mountains.
Ziggurat
The most stupendous and impressive of the rock-cut-temples.
Great Temple, Abu Simbel
Two main classes of temples in Egyptian Architecture.
Mortuary and Cult Temples
Structure whose sides are made to face the four cardinal points.
Pyramid
The Greek male statues used as columns.
Atlantes
The uppermost step in the crepidoma.
Stylobate
The three chamber of a Greek temple.
Pronaos, Naos, and Epinaos
The clear space in between columns.
Intercolumniation
Intercolumniation of 2 diameters.
Systyle
A kindred type to the theater.
Odeion
What sporting event takes place in the Palaestra?
Wrestling
A temple with 1-4 columns arranged between antae at the front and rear.
Amphi-Antis
The most beautiful and best preserved of the Greek theaters.
Epidauros
The finest of all illustrations of Roman construction.
Pantheon
Who completed the ‘hall of hundred columns’?
Artaxerxes
In Roman fountains, the large basin of water.
Lacus
The colosseum in Rome also known as the “flavian amphitheater” was commenced by whom and completed by whom?
Vespasian / Domitian
The finest of Greek Tombs, also known as the ‘tomb of Agamemnon’.
Treasury of Atreus
Roman architect of the Greek Temples of Zeus, Olympius.
Cossutius
The water-leaf and tongue is a usual ornament found in the ___.
Cyma Reversa
One of the best examples of a surviving megaron type of Greek domestic building.
House #33
The private house of the Romans.
Domus
A type of Roman wall facing with alternating courses of brickworks.
Opus Mixtum
A type of roman wall facing with rectangular block with or without mortar joints.
Opus Quadratum
A type of ornament in classic or renaissance architecture consisting of an assemblage of straight lines intersecting at right angles, and of various patterns.
Fret
Conceptualized the Corinthian capital.
Callimachus
The atrium type of house originated with the ___.
Etruscans
15th to 18th century architecture.
Renaissance
A pillared hall in which the roofs rests on the column in Egyptian temples.
Hypostyle Hall
He created the Dymaxion House, “the first machine for living”.
Buckminster Fuller
The warm room in the Thermae.
Tepidarium
The dry or sweating room in the Thermae.
Sudatorium
Orientation of the Roman temple is towards the ___.
Forum
Orientation of the Medieval Church.
West
In some churches, there is a part which is raised as part of the sanctuary which later developed into the transept, this is the ___.
Bema
Type of plan of the Byzantine churches.
Centralized
Smallest cathedral in the world. (Byzantine period)
Little Metropole Cath., Athens
The covered passage around an open space or garth, connecting the church to the chapter house, refectory and other parts of the monastery.
Cloisters
The term applied to the Episcopal church of the diocese and also the important structure of the Gothic period.
Cathedral
He erected the entrance Piazza at St. Peter’s Basilica.
Bernini
Architect of the World Trade Center.
Minoru Yamasaki
The Pantheon is from what architecture.
Roman
Architect of the Bi-Nuclear House, the H-Plan.
Marcel Lajos Breuer
In what Order is the Parthenon.
Doric
This structure in Greece was erected by Andronikos Cyrrhestes for measuring time by means of a clepsydra internally and sun dial externally.
Tower of the Winds, Athens
The Egyptian Ornament symbolizing fertility.
Papyrus
Corresponds to the Greek naos.
Cella
Architect of the Chicago Tribune Tower.
Eliel Saarinen
First elected U.A.P. president.
Jose Herrera
Designer of the Taj Mahal.
Shah Jahan
This is a pedestal with human, animal, or mythological creatures at the top.
Terms
Expressionist Architect.
Erich Mendelsohn
Return in the use of Roman Orders in modern age.
Neo-Classism
Architect of the Philippine Heart Center.
George Ramos
Built by the Franciscan priest Fr. Blas dela Madre, this church in Rizal whose design depicts the heavy influence of Spanish Baroque, was declared a national treasure.
Morong Church
Central Bank of the Philippines, Manila.
Gabriel Formoso
Found in the ground floor of the bahay na bato, it is where the carriages and floats are kept.
Zaguan
In the kitchen of the bahay kubo, the table on top of which is the river stone, shoe-shaped stove or kalan is known as ___.
Dapogan
The united architects of the philippines was formally organized in?
1975
Who designed St. La Salle Hall, St. La Salle University/ Librada Avelino Hall, Centro Escolar University/ Philippine General Hospital Nurses Home?
Tomas Bautista Mapua
Which National Artist for Architecture designed the Loyola Memorial Parks?
Ildefonso Santos
Works of National Artist Jose Maria Zaragoza.
Meralco Building / Tala Leposarium / Sto. Domingo Church & Convent / The Pink Sisters Convent / Vira Mall Greenhills / Redesign of Quiapo Church / St. John Bosco Parish Church
The following would all be commonly found on the exterior walls of a bahay na bato:
Persiana / Ventanilla / Espejo
The architect of the 1st skyscraper building in the Philippines with 12 storey
Angel Nakpil
Where would the guests be able to watch the procession during a fiesta?
Volada
Spanish colonial cuadricula meant:
Grid Street Formation
The hammered concrete, or exposed concrete finish was 1st used in the ph by:
Cresenciano de Castro
The Rizal Memorial Stadium was designed by?
Juan Arellano
What type of greek temple would have a spacing between its columns as 4.5 units and the diameter of its column bases as 3 units?
Pyknostyle
Greek temples having four columns fronting its pronoas and epinoas only:
amphiprostyle tetrastyle
A greek prostyle decastyle temple would have how many columns on one of its sides?
21
The heating system of a therma was the:
Hypocaust
World’s first high rise building is located in which american city?
Chicago (Home Insurance Building 10 storey)
Greek temples having columns only at the front and rear:
amphiprostyle
What would a doric temple use to hide the ends of its roof rafters?
Triglyphs
The piazza of st. Peter’s basilica was designed by:
Bernini
The architect of the Palazzeto dello Sport:
Pier Luigi Nervi
In Islamic Architecture, it is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the direction to Mecca?
Mihrab
Which Art Nouveau inspired structure by Antonio Gaudi remains to be unfinished in Spain until today?
Sagrada Familia
An ancient Greek Portico, a long colonnaded shelter used in public places.
Stoa
The fortified high area or citadel of an ancient Greek City.
Acropolis
An upright ornament at the eaves of a tile roof, concealing the foot of a row of convex tiles that cover the joints of the flat tiles.
Antefix (Antefixae)
Strictly, a pedestal at the corners or peak of a roof to support an ornament, more usually, the ornament itself.
Acroterion / Acroterium
Also called a ‘Honeysuckle’ ornament.
Anthemion
In ancient Greece and Rome, a storeroom of any kind, but especially for storing wine.
Apotheca
The characteristic of Greek ornament.
Anthemion
The use of ___ for facing walls distinguishes Romanesque architecture in Italy from that of the rest of Europe.
Marble
The ornamental pattern work in stone, filling the upper part of a Gothic window.
Tracery
Japanese tea house.
Cha-sit-su
Ifugao house (southern strain).
Bale
Tomb of the pharaohs.
Pyramid
Temples in Greece that have a double line of columns surrounding the naos.
Dipteral
Founder of the Bauhaus School of Art.
Walter Gropius
The architect of Chrysler building in N.Y.
Van Alen
In the middle kingdom, in Egyptian architecture, who consolidate the administrative system, made a survey of the country, set boundaries to the provinces, and other helpful works.
Amenemhat I
The world’s first large-scale monument in stone.
Pyramid of Zoser
Sarimanok is a décor reflecting the culture of the ___.
Visayan
A small tower usually corbelled at the corner of the castle.
Bartizan
A roof in which 4 faces rests diagonally between the gables and converge at the roof.
Helm Roof
Architect of Iglesia ni Cristo.
Carlos Santos Viola
Architect of Robinson’s Galleria
William Cosculluela
Richly carved coffins of Greece and Mesopotamia.
Sarcophagus
Elizabethan Architecture is from what architecture.
U.S. / English Renaissance
Art Noveau is known as the international style, in Germany it is known as ___.
Jugendstijl
Embrasures.
Crenel
Architect of TWA airport.
Eero Saarinen
Modern architecture need not be western.
Kenzo Tange
Taj Mahal is a building example of what architecture.
Saracenic Architecture
Greek equivalent of the Roman forum, a place of open air assembly or market.
Agora
A multi-storied shrine like towers, originally a Buddhist monument of diminishing size with corbelled cornice and moldings.
Pagoda
From the Greek temples, a temple that have porticoes of columns at the front and rear.
Amphi-Prostyle
The cistern storage of collected rainwater underneath the azotea of the bahay na bato.
Aljibe
The tomb beneath a church.
Crypt
Semi-palatial house surrounded by an open site.
Villa
The style emerging in western Europe in the early 11th century, based on Roman and
Romanesque
First registered architect in the Philippines.
Tomas Mapua
Finest example of French-Gothic architecture
Chartres Cathedral
Sacred artificial mountains of Babylon and Assyria.
Ziggurat
The space between the sloping roof over the aisle and the aisle vaulting, so also called a blind story.
Triforium
The triangular or segmental space enclosed by a pediment or arch.
Tympanum
In classical architecture, the elaborated beam member carried by the columns.
Entablature
Usual number of stories for a Chinese pagoda.
13
The most famous structure of Byzantine architecture and notable of its large dome.
Hagia Sophia
A long arcaded entrance porch in an early Christian church.
Narthex
A basin for ritual cleansing with water in the atrium of an early Christian basilica.
Cantharus
A decorative niche often topped with a canopy and housing a statue.
Tabernacle
Coffers, sunken panels in the ceiling.
Lacunaria
Projecting blocks of stone carved with foliage, typical in Gothic architecture.
Crocket
A rectangular or square slab supporting the column at the base.
Plinth
This church in the Philippines is the seat of the Malolos Congress.
Barasoain Church
Architect of the famous propylaea, Acropolis.
Mnesicles
The four-seated colossal statues of Rameses II is carved in the pylon of the ___.
Great Temple, Abu Simbel
Egyptian temples for ministrations to deified pharaohs.
Mortuary Temple
Egyptian temples for the popular worship of the ancient and the mysterious gods.
Cult Temple
A recessed or alcove with raised seats where disputes took place.
Exedra
The lowest step in the crepidoma.
Stereobate
A Greek building that contains painted pictures.
Pinacotheca
Intercolumniation of 2.25 diameters.
Eustyle
Pycnostyle intercolumniation has how many diameters?
1.5 Diameters
Roman building which is a prototype of the hippodrome of the Greek.
Circus
A foot race course in the cities.
stadium
In Greek, it is the Roman prototype of the Thermae.
Gymnasium
What orders did the Etruscans and the Romans add making 5 in all?
Tuscan and Composite
The oldest and most important forum in Rome.
Forum Romanum
Architects of the Parthenon.
Callicrates and Ictinus
Spouting jets in Roman fountain.
Salientes
Architect of the Erechtheion.
Mnesicles
Architect of the Temple of Zeus, Agrigentum
Theron
Both the regula and the mutule has guttae numbering a total of ___.
18
The Corona is usually painted with the ___.
Key Pattern
The molding that is often found in the Doric Order.
Bird’s Beak
Roman rectangular temples stood on a ___.
Podium
A type of Roman wall facing which is made of small stone laid in a loose pattern roughly resembling polygonal work.
Opus Incertum
A Roman structure used as hall of justice and commercial exchanges.
Basilica
Figures of which the upper parts alone are carved, the rest running into a parallelopiped or diminishing pedestal.
Termini
The sleeping room of the ‘megaron’.
Thalamus
Roman apartment blocks.
Insula
Form follows function.
Louis Sullivan
Who began the building of the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak?
Thothmes I
Tombs built for the Egyptian nobility rather than the royalty.
Rock-Hewn Tombs
The Hot room of the Thermae.
Calidarium
The dressing room of the Thermae.
Apodyteria
Orientation of the Greek temple is towards the ___.
East
The space for the clergy and choir is separated by a low screen wall from the body of the church called ___.
Cancelli
In early Christian churches, the bishop took the central place at the end of the church called ___.
Apse
Architects of the Hagia Sophia. (St. Sophia, Constantinople)
Anthemius and Isidorus
One of the few churches of its type to have survived having a square nave and without cross-arms, roofed by a dome which spans to the outer walls of the building.
Nea Moni
The prominent feature of the facades in Romanesque Central Italy.
Ornamental Arcades
The first plan shape of the St. Peter’s Basilica by Bramante.
Greek Cross
Used as food storage in the Bahay na Bato.
Dispensa
The Erechtheion of Mnesicles is from what architecture?
Greek
The architect of the Pantheon.
Agrippa
Mexican Architect/Engineer who introduced thin shell construction.
Felix Outerino Candela
In what Order is the temple of Nike Apteros, Athens.
Ionic
In the Cyma Reversa molding of the Romans, what ornaments are usually found?
Acanthus and Dolphin
Egyptian Temple for popular worship of the ancient and mysterious gods.
Cult Temple
The large element in the frieze.
Triglyph
Architecture is Organic.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Designer of the Bonifacio Monument.
Juan Nakpil
Male counterpart of the Caryatids.
Telamones or Atlantes
A small payer house in Egyptian architecture.
Madrassah
Founders of the “Art Noveau”.
John Ruskin and William Moris
Scheme or solution of a problem in architecture.
Parti
Architect of the Rizal Memorial Stadium.
Juan Nakpil
This church, 1st built by the Augustinian Fr. Miguel Murguia, has an unusually large bell which was made from approximately 70 sacks of coins donated by the towns people.
Panay Capiz
G.S.I.S. Building, Roxas Boulevard.
George Ramos
The emergency hideout found directly behind the neadboard of the Sultan’s bed.
Bilik
Who was the architect of the unbuilt capitol building in manila?
George Fenhagen
Who was the architect of the meralco building on ortigas avenue?
Jose Maria Zaragoza
Who was the designer of the prototypes for Gabaldon Schoolhouses built in the Philippines between 1907 and 1946?
William Parsons
The Shrine of Our Lady of Peace in EDSA was designed by which National Artist for architecture?
Francisco “Bobby” Mañosa
In which period were the housing project 1 to 8 is developed?
Post Colonial
Theaters that was designed by Juan Nakpil
Riza / State / Ever
One of two architect of the Iglesia ni Kristo Bishop’s Chapel
Juan Nakpil
The Manila are of Paco was the settlement of the:
Japanese
The Gota de Leche in Sampaloc, Manila was designed by:
Arcadio Arellano
A highly ornamented wooden altar framework was termed:
retablo
A half round convex greek moulding?
Torus
Greek temples having two rows of columns all around with its side columns engaged:
Pseudo-dipteral
A corinthian column having a height of 12 units would have a base diameter of :
1.2 units
Greek foot races would have been held in the:
Stadion
The greek hippodrome was the Roman:
Circus
How many columns would be on one side of Greek heptastyle temple?
15
In a diastyle corinthian temple, if the spacing between columns is 6 units, the column would therefore be how many units high?
20
Which national artist for architecture designed the galaxy, ideal and lyric theaters in manila?
Pablo Antonio
The first church that fully used all gothic elements:
Basilica of St. Denis, FRANCE
Important civic spaces for thr greeks, was also the essential element in Hippodamus’ grid system for planning :
Agora
What kind of temple is the Temple of Amun Karnak
Cult Temple
Water cistern in a bahay na bato?
Aljibe
