MODULE

Question 1

contributes to Design Theory

Answer 1

Research of Architecture

Question 2

“Skill without knowledge is nothing”

Answer 2

Architect Jean Mignot

Question 3

Every new or established theory applied

Answer 3

PARADISM

Question 4

• Author of the oldest research on architecture
• author of the celebrated treatise De architectura (On Architecture)
• Wrote an extensive summary of all the theory on construction
• Had a thorough knowledge of earlier Greek and Roman writings

Answer 4

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Question 5

• “Ten Books on Architecture”
• written by the Roman architect and military engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus
• a handbook for Roman architects

Answer 5

treatise De architectura libri decem

Question 6

REQUIREMENTS SET FOR BUILDINGS

Answer 6

• DURABILITY (firmitas)
• PRACTICALITY or “convenience” (utilitas)
• PLEASANTNESS (venustas)

Question 7

• Person in charge of constructions commanded by Pope

- written on the art of building

Answer 7

Leon Bautista Alberti

Question 8

one of the greatest works of the theory of architecture

“on the art of building” : completed in 1452, published in 1485

more emphasis on decoration of building exteriors

Answer 8

De re aedifficatoria

Question 9

Regole generall di architectura

Answer 9

Sebastino Serlio

Question 10

“Regola delle cinque ordini”

• Concise, facts and easily applicable rules of the five-column systems

- Based his design instructions on four things:
\: Idea of Pythagoras
\: proportions of small number
\: properties and other instruments
\: good taste

Answer 10

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

Question 11

• “I Quattro libri dell’architectura”

- The father of modern picture books of architecture

Answer 11

Andrea Palladio

Question 12

• One of French theorist who are critical of italians
• Prove that Pantheon’s Corinthian columns had 3 different proportions
• Rejected the doctrine of absolute beauty of measures

Answer 12

Philibert de L’orme

Question 13

an Italian Renaissance-era architect, claimed in the 1400s that balanced classical forms would compel
aggressive invaders to put down their arms and become civilians

Answer 13

Leon Battista Alberti

Question 14

the US architect who designed one of the most famous buildings in America, Fallingwater, similarly believed appropriate architecture would save the US from corruption and turn people back to wholesome endeavors

Answer 14

Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 15

believed companies would be more efficient if their employees lived in village-like garden communities

Answer 15

Ebenezer Howard

Question 16

Stated “The unplanned growth of cities”

Answer 16

Frederick Law Olmsted

Question 17

Famous Landscape Architect of Anglo-American

Answer 17

Calvert Vaux