RANDOM

Question 1

These constituted the barriers to migration since the earliest periods of civilization
(mountains; deserts; seas…)

Answer 1

Geography

Question 2

Visible architecture is composed of:

Answer 2

Volume & Depth

Question 3

Primary shapes that can be extended or rotated to generate volume whose forms are
distinct, regular and easily recognizable

Answer 3

Platonic Solids

Question 4

One of four basic possibilities for two forms to group together. This requires that the two
forms be relatively close to each other or share a common visual trait.

Answer 4

Face to face contact

Question 5

Defined geometrically as a line that is divided such that the lesser portion is to the greater as
the greater is to be the whole.

Answer 5

Golden section

Question 6

One type of cues used in depth perception where in one object appears to cut off the view of
another

Answer 6

Juxtaposition

Question 7

Is the attribute that most clearly distinguishes a form from its environment.

Answer 7

Color

Question 8

The most important kind of character in architecture is that which result from the purpose of
the building or reason of erection.

Answer 8

personal character

Question 9

Most elementary means of organizing forms and spaces in architecture.

Answer 9

Balance

Question 10

Characterized by an arrangement where all the part radiate from a center like the spikes in a
wheel.

Answer 10

centralized

Question 11

It means equality

Answer 11

balance

Question 12

It gives a feeling of grandeur, dignity and monumentality.

Answer 12

scale

Question 13

When lines, planes, and surface treatments are repeated in a regular sequence.

Answer 13

rhythm

Question 14

A kind of character that came from the influence of ideas and impressions related to or
growing out of past experience.

Answer 14

assoc. character

Question 15

It is evident by a comparison which the eye makes between the size, shape and tone of a
various object or part of a competition.

Answer 15

proportion

Question 16

Deals with the relationship between the different parts of the whole to the various parts.

Answer 16

balance

Question 17

It bears a certain relation to the same attribute to the life of an individual.

Answer 17

personal character

Question 18

This refer to the manner in which the surface of a form come together to define its
shape and volume.

Answer 18

articulation of form

Question 19

Who said “The will of the epoch translated into space’

Answer 19

adolf hitler

Question 20

A collection of forms grouped together by proximity or the sharing of a common
visual trait.

Answer 20

grid form

Question 21

Architecture is generally conceived, designed and realized.

Answer 21

design process

Question 22

Is a commercial building with several small scale entrepreneurs who sell their commodities
in a limited space or
modules that provide them low rentals for the buyers to avail cheaper merchandize, both to
retail and wholesale.

Answer 22

tiangge

Question 23

human factor engineering

Answer 23

ergonomics

Question 24

Early type of settlement in America taken after the “baug”

(military town) and “fauborg” (citizen’s town) of the medieval ages.

Answer 24

medieval organic city

Question 25

Le Corbusier planned a high density building that was a “super
building” that contained 337 dwellings in only acres of land. What is
the structure that supposed to be located in Marseilles?

Answer 25

unite d’ habitation

Question 26

It is the first Development Garden City where it is a combination
of landscaping, informal street layouts, and main axis focusing on
town center

Answer 26

letchwork

Question 27

A British pioneered in regional Planning for the Doncaster area
(1920-1922) and East Kent; Involved in greater London Plan; Use of
open space as structuring element

Answer 27

leslie patrick abercrombrie

Question 28

He is remembered for his “Ideal Cities” – star shaped plans with
street radiating from central point, usually proposed for a church,
palace or castle

Answer 28

leon battista alberti

Question 29

Whose theory is the explanation of residential land uses in terms
of wedge-shaped sectors radial to the city center along established
lines of transportation.

Answer 29

homer hoyt

Question 30

Published the book called “Fields, Factories and Workshops; or
Industry Combined with Agriculture with manual work”.

Answer 30

peter kropotkin

Question 31

Often enclosed and secluded the street, whose high density and
variety of planning conveys a garden image. It sometimes includes
flower planters and a water feature and usually supplies a variety of
seating possibilities.

Answer 31

garden oasis

Question 32

A wide area of parks of undeveloped land surrounding a community.

Answer 32

greenbelt

Question 33

The process in which a piece of land, referred to as the parent tract, is subdivided into two or more
parcels.

Answer 33

platting

Question 34

Angles measured clockwise from any meridian, usually north; however, the National Geodetic Survey
uses south.

Answer 34

azimuths