HOA 3

Question 1

In early Christian churches, the bishop took the central place at the end of the church

Answer 1

Apse

Question 2

The orders that were added by the Romans to the orders used by the Breeks

Answer 2

• Composite

- Tuscan

Question 3

The Greek council house which is a covered meeting place for the democratically-elected council

Answer 3

Bouleuterion

Question 4

One of the few churches of its type to have survived having a square nave and without cross-arms, roofed by a dome that spans to the outer walls of the building

Answer 4

Nea Moni

Question 5

The enclosure formed by huge stones planted on the ground in circular form

Answer 5

Cromlech

Question 6

Romanesque architecture in Italy is distinguished from that of the rest of Europe by the use of what material for facing walls

Answer 6

Marble

Question 7

First school which offered architecture in the Philippines

Answer 7

Liceo de Manila

Question 8

“The ultimate goal of the new architecture was the composite but inseparable work of an art, in which the old dividing line between monumental and decorative elements will have disappeared forever.”

Answer 8

Walter Gropius

Question 9

A traditional house that was called binangiyan. It was a single room dwelling elevated at 1.50 meters from the ground; the floor were made of hard wood like Narra which rested on 3 floor joist which in turn were supported by transverse girders

Answer 9

Kankanay

Question 10

Orientation of the Etruscan temple is towards the

Answer 10

South

Question 11

The mineral of greatest importance of Greek architecture of which Greece and her domains had ample supply of

Answer 11

Marble

Question 12

The architect of the Quiapo Church before its restoration

Answer 12

Juan Nakpil

Question 13

A pedestal at the corners or peak of a roof to support an ornament, more usually, the ornament itself

Answer 13

Acroterion

Question 14

Thermae’s warm room

Answer 14

Tepidarium

Question 15

The ornamental pattern work in stone, filling the upper part of a Gothic window

Answer 15

Tracery

Question 16

Corresponds to the Greek naos

Answer 16

Cella

Question 17

Thermae’s dry or sweating room

Answer 17

Sudatorium

Question 18

Pantheon architects

Answer 18

Hadrian & Apollodorus

Question 19

Most famous and perfect preservation of all ancient buildings in Rome

Answer 19

Pantheon

Question 20

Bi-nuclear House Architect

Answer 20

Marcel Lajos Bruer

Question 21

Byzantine architecture character

Answer 21

Domical roof construction

Question 22

Rizal Memorial Stadium Architect

Answer 22

Juan Arellano

Question 23

Difference bet. Egyptian pyramids and Babylonian ziggurats

Answer 23

• Pyramids have square plans.

- Ziggurats have rectangular plans.

Question 24

Muslim architecture principal building type

Answer 24

Mosque

Question 25

Mies van der Rohe first envisioned the all-glass skyscraper in the 1920’s. A true genius, he designed a structure that could not be built at that time, but some thirty years later the technology was at hand. The long-held dream of the crystalline tower was finally realized in this famous building, 38 stories of black steel and glass.

Answer 25

Seagram Building

Question 26

Principles adopted by Le Corbusier in his Villa Savoye

Answer 26

• First story columns free of walls, that raise the house above the ground.
• The exterior walls are no longer load-bearing and just separates the internal spaces from the outside.
• Roof gardens.
• Free plan, achieved by the separation of the load-bearing columns from the walls subdividing the space.
• Horizontal lengths of fenestration as uninterrupted bands.

Question 27

Chicago Tribune Tower Architect

Answer 27

John Howell and Raymond Hood

Question 28

“Cubicula” or bedroom is from what architecture?

Answer 28

Roman

Question 29

Expressionist Architect

Answer 29

Erich Mendelsohn

Question 30

Thermae’s room for oils and unguents

Answer 30

Unctuaria

Question 31

A major contribution of Early Christian architecture

Answer 31

Basilican type of cruciform plan

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Antefix

Question 33

“Form follows function.”

Answer 33

Louis Sullivan

Question 34

“The exterior of the building is the result of the interior.

Answer 34

Le Corbusier

Question 35

SM Megamall Architect

Answer 35

Antonio Sin Diong

Question 36

The space for the clergy and choir is separated by a low screen wall from the body of the church

Answer 36

Cancelli

Question 37

On either side of the choir, pulpits for the reading of the epistle and the gospel

Answer 37

Ambo

Question 38

An ancient Greek portico, a long colonnaded shelter used in public places

Answer 38

Stoa

Question 39

Roman temple orientation

Answer 39

Forum

Question 40

Manila Hilton Hotel Architects

Answer 40

Welton Becket

Carlos Arguelles

Question 41

Taj Mahal designer

Answer 41

Shan Jahan

Question 42

Buddhist architecture shown in rock-cut temples with lavishly carved interiors is a characteristic feature of what style of architecture?

Answer 42

Indian

Question 43

Parts of an entablature, in order of top to bottom

Answer 43

• Cornice
• Frieze
• Architrave

Question 44

Philippine Heart Center Architect

Answer 44

Jorge Ramos

Question 45

The first plan shape of the St. Peter’s Basilica by Bramante

Answer 45

Greek cross

Question 46

The triangular piece of wall above the entablature

Answer 46

Pediment

Question 47

The space between the colonnade and the naos wall in Greek temple

Answer 47

Pteroma

Question 48

The smallest cathedral in the world during the Byzantine period

Answer 48

Little Metropolis Cathedral, Athens

Question 49

The building in the Acropolis is generally considered as being the most nearly perfect building ever erected

Answer 49

Parthenon