Architecture Architectural History

Question 1

The Parthenon in Athens is considered the pinnacle of which architectural order?

Accepted Answer

Doric

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Ionic

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Corinthian

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Composite

Question 2

What structural innovation allowed Roman architects to build the Pantheon's massive unreinforced concrete dome?

Accepted Answer

Coffered ceiling with decreasing thickness and lightweight pumice aggregate at the top

Answer

Steel tension rings

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Pointed arch system

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Flying buttresses

Question 3

What is the defining structural innovation of Gothic architecture?

Accepted Answer

The pointed arch, ribbed vault, and flying buttress system allowing taller, lighter structures

Answer

The use of the round Roman arch

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Reinforced concrete construction

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The post-and-lintel structural system

Question 4

Frank Lloyd Wright's 'organic architecture' philosophy is best exemplified by which famous building?

Accepted Answer

Fallingwater (Kaufmann House)

Answer

Guggenheim Museum New York

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Unity Temple

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Johnson Wax Headquarters

Question 5

The Bauhaus school, founded in Weimar, Germany in 1919, is primarily associated with:

Accepted Answer

Integrating fine arts, crafts, and industrial design in a unified modernist approach

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Ornate historicist design

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Gothic revival architecture

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Beaux-Arts classical training

Question 6

Le Corbusier's 'Five Points of a New Architecture' (1926) included which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Pilotis, free plan, free facade, horizontal windows, and roof garden

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Masonry bearing walls, pitched roofs, and symmetrical facades

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Organic forms, local materials, and site integration

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Classical orders, symmetry, and stone construction