1.
The architectural device used at the Hagia Sophia to created the biggest dome ever
built was called the ??????
A. Pendentive
B. Pendantive
C. Squinch
D. Clerestory
2.A vault over one bay divided by diagonal ribs into 4 parts.
a. Sexpartite
b. Quadripartite
c. Muqarnas
d. Tripartite
3.A triangular shaped stone placed at the top of a buttress in order to give it greater
weight and to provide decorative points that point toward the sky.
a. Pinnacle
b. Pendentive
c. Corbel
d. Keystone
4.Roundish shape on a stain glass window used to tell stories.
A. Round Robin
B. Roundel
C. Rose Window
D. Rounded Clerestory
5.the world's oldest wooden structure;
(Temple of the Flourishing Law) a Buddhist temple that was once one of the powerful
Seven Great Temples, in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan
a. Jishō-ji
b. Tōdai-ji
c. Horyuji
d. Ginkaku-ji
6.a traditional Japanese unit of length, equal to six Japanese feet (shaku)
a. Zen
b. Ten
c. Ken
d. Shoten
7.Byzantine architects evolved numerous plan variations in which large squares were
divided into nine component squares with domes at the center and corners
a. Quincux Plan
b. Cross Plan
c. Tetraconch
d. Crossed Dome
8.laborately jointed corbelled brackets that connect the posts to the truss
Dragons (Long)
a. Douming
b. Dougong
c. Pinyin Jiu
d. Tai Cji
9.in Hindi, pradakshina, is clockwise movement around a sacred person, image, or
temple, represents the transition from the profane life to the perfect sacred life, temples
are designed with ambulatory passages to encourage circumambulatory movement that
take the worshipper from the doorway around the sanctuary of the temple where they
see other cult images of the divine
a. Circumbulate
b. Circumambulation
c. Circumference
d. Circumbulation
10.symbolic connection of heaven to earth, in a hindu temple, is usually directly above
the cult image in the womb-chamber of a Hindu temple and it is where the tallest point
on the temple is, invisible vertical line running through the holiest point in a temple,
indicates separation of sacred and profane space
a. X and Y Axis
b. Axis Mundi
c. Cartesian Plane
d. Axis Mandi
11.a three-dimensional architectural decoration
composed of niche-like elements arranged in tiers
Muqarnas vaults
12. tower for muezzin to call the faithful to prayer
a. Hammam
b. Minaret
c. Sahn
d. Iwan
13. a holy sanctuary of Ka'ba in
Mecca and rededicated to Islamic world
a. Mecca
b. Ka’ba
c. Jeddah
d. Dammam
14. Arabic term for alternating bands of colored stones in Islamic masonary, derived
from Byzantine opus mixtine.
a. Sarah
b. Ablaq
c. Arabesque
d. Saleh
15. A small arch or a series of gradually wider and projecting concentric arches across
the interior corners of a square or polygonal room, forming a transition from the room
shape ta a circular dome or drum above.
a. Squinch
b. Pendentive
c. Keystone
d. Post and Lintel
16. A niche in the qibla wall of the Muslim religious building indicating the direction
towards Mecca.
a. Mihrab
b. Minaret
c. Iwan
d. Sahn
17. the holy site located in Mecca- the holiest shrine of Islam
a. Kaaba (cube)
b. Iwan
c. Shaykh
d. Hammam
18. Pritzker Prize Awardee in 2018
A. Zaha Hadid
B. Balkrishna Doshi
C. Frank Lloyd Wright
D. Alejandro Aravena
19. Egyptian architecture is characterized by?
A. Massiveness and ornamentation
B Monumental & trabeated
C. Highly decorative
D. Very ornate
19. An ancient roman construction technique, using irregular shaped and random
placed uncut stones?
A. Opus caementium
B. Opus reticulatum
C. Opus quadratum
D.Opus incertum
20. Where did gothic architecture originate?
A. Northern france
B.Germany
C.Italy
D.Spain
21. In the falling water, what is the function of the overhanging slab?
A. Terrace
B.Living
C. Open dining area
D. Bedroom
22. Most important distinctive character of mature Spanish Romanesque architecture?
A. Horseshoe arch
B. Lancet arch
C. Parabolic arch
D. Tudor
23. What do you call a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a
column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head as in the figure shown above?
A. Gargoyle
B. Caryatid
C. Atlantes
D. Statue
24. Church plan of early christian churches?
A. Basilica
B. Latin cross
C. Greek cross
D. Calvary cross
25. Architect of TWA Flight Center
A. Gropius
B.Doxiadis
C.Niemeyer
D.Eero Saarinen
26. Architect / city planner who authored the “ekistics” - the science of human settlements?
A. Gropius
B. Doxiadis
C. Niemeyer
D. Vitruvius
27. Architect who designed and advocated the geodesic dome for cities of tomorrow was?
A. Mies van der rohe
B. Le Corbusier
C. Buckminster fuller
D. Louis Kahn
28. Leandro Locsin's Chapel of the Holy Sacrifice was famously known as
A. Delaney's Chalice
B. Delaney's Flying saucer
C. Delaney's UFO
D. Delaney's Spaceship
29. This building at Mandaluyong city was also called "the battlestar galactica".
A. Benguet Center
B. Cultural Center of the Philippines
C. Merrymart Mall
D. San Miguel Building
30. The Machu Picchu is an architectural achievement of what civilization?
A. Inca
B. Aztec
C. Maya
D. Olmec
