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Architecture
Q:
The ceiling of the Postal Savings Bank's banking room is:
A) an aluminum-panel vault.
B) a glass-vaulted one with cables hung from aluminum masts.
C) a marble-veneer vault with bands of glazing.
D) an early example of exposed, poured-in-place concrete.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Charles McKim, William Rutherford Mead, and Stanford White based their design for New York City's Pennsylvania Station on:
A) St. Pancras Station in London.
B) Grand Central Station in New York City.
C) ancient Roman baths.
D) the ancient Roman Basilica of Constantine.
E) the Gothic forms in Rome.
Q:
Joseph Maria Olbrich covered the dome of the Secession Building with:
A) a snake motif symbolic of Medusa.
B) a triton motif symbolic of Neptune.
C) a laurel motif symbolic of Apollo.
D) an ivy motif symbolic of Minerva.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The suspension cables for the Brooklyn Bridge were:
A) designed by John Augustus Roebling but found to be undersized and were therefore redesigned by his son.
B) woven by a spiderlike machine that passed repeatedly from bank to bank.
C) brought down the East River by barge and raised up by huge cranes.
D) made by joining ten-foot modules with a connector patented by the Roeblings, father and son.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
H.H. Richardson obtained the commission for Trinity Church in Boston:
A) by winning a design competition.
B) when it was turned down by McKim, Mead, and White.
C) through connections he had made at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
D) because of his social standing in the city.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Joseph Paxton, who designed the Crystal Palace in London, was trained as:
A) a singer.
B) an iron forger.
C) a glassmaker.
D) an architect of factories.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The Eiffel Tower was built:
A) by the Perret brothers' construction company.
B) for the Paris International Exposition of 1889.
C) as a radio tower.
D) by the French as an answer to the notoriety of England's Crystal Palace.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The external skin of the Reliance Building in Chicago consists of:
A) a glazed cast-iron-grid attached to steel columns and beams.
B) cast-concrete panels infilled with glass and bolted to an iron frame.
C) glass and stone supporting themselves, with floors supported by steel columns.
D) glass and terracotta clipped onto an internal steel skeleton.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
To design his Red House, William Morris chose:
A) Phillip Webb.
B) Richard Norman Shaw.
C) John Wellborn Root.
D) C.F.A. Voysey.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Richard Norman Shaw based his design for Leyswood on:
A) William Morris's Red House.
B) the works he found in the sketchbook of Robert Smythson.
C) Victorian Gothic buildings.
D) the structures in Shakespeare's Stratford-on-Avon.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey was strongly influenced by:
A) the work of Robert Smythson.
B) Neo-Medievalism.
C) the Arts and Crafts Movement.
D) the designs found in Muthesius's The English House.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
All of the following names were given to the Art Nouveau EXCEPT:
A) Stile Liberty.
B) Stile Radicale.
C) Jugendstil.
D) Stile Floreale.
E) All of the answers are correct.
Q:
Hector Guimard is best known for his designs for:
A) hotels in Paris.
B) Mtro entrances in Paris.
C) theaters in Paris.
D) Mtro stations in New York City.
E) chapels in New York City.
Q:
In designing vaults for the Sagrada Familia, Antonio Gaudi experimented with:
A) models made by local ceramicists.
B) types illustrated in medieval sketchbooks but never before erected.
C) sandbags hung on ropes and covered with canvas.
D) a type of Portland cement concrete.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
All of the following were influences on Charles Rennie Mackintosh EXCEPT:
A) the Art Nouveau.
B) Scottish baronial architecture in Glasgow.
C) Celtic art.
D) Glasgow's wealth of medieval churches.
E) All of the answers are correct.
Q:
Distinctive features of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Hill House in Helensburgh include all of the following EXCEPT:
A) dark interior woodwork.
B) pebble-dash stucco.
C) vernacular turrets.
D) expressive chimneys.
E) All of the answers are correct.
Q:
The house with Gothic details at Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, near London, was built by:
A) Lord Burlington.
B) William Kent.
C) Horace Walpole.
D) Sanderson Miller.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The first American to attend the Ecole des Beaux-Arts was:
A) Louis Sullivan.
B) Frank Lloyd Wright.
C) Richard Morris Hunt.
D) H.H. Richardson.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Strawberry Hill's pendant vaulting was inspired by the:
A) choir vaults at nearby Salisbury Cathedral.
B) retrochoir vaults at Westminster Cathedral.
C) stalactite formations in a cave on the property.
D) Chapel of Henry VII at Westminster Abbey.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The rampant borrowing of forms from the architectural past is called:
A) pragmatism.
B) eclecticism.
C) romanticism.
D) antiquarianism.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Neue Wache in Berlin was built as a:
A) royal guard house.
B) royal museum.
C) concert hall.
D) garden pavilion.
E) government office.
Q:
J.M. Gandy is celebrated for the:
A) gardens he designed for the Charlottenhof.
B) murals he painted in the Bank of England.
C) renderings he did for Sir John Soane.
D) sculpted figures he executed for Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Thomas Jefferson commissioned Benjamin Henry Latrobe to Washington, D.C., to work on the:
A) Smithsonian Institution.
B) U.S. Capitol.
C) National Cathedral.
D) U.S. Treasury Building.
E) All of the answers are correct.
Q:
Thomas Jefferson's Virginia State Capitol Building was modeled on the:
A) writings of Palladio.
B) Parthenon.
C) Pantheon in Rome.
D) Maison Carre in Nmes.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Thomas Jefferson called his University of Virginia campus:
A) the Athens of Virginia.
B) an academical village.
C) a university as Palladio would have designed it.
D) a forum academicum.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Compare the work of the English Neo-Palladians with that of Robert Adam.
Q:
Discuss Claude-Nicholas Ledoux's interpretation of the architecture of antiquity.
Q:
Compare the interpretations of classicism by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Sir John Soane.
Q:
Discuss the idea of the professional architect as embodied by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the gentleman-amateur architect as embodied by Thomas Jefferson.
Q:
The West Mill in Belper was distinctive for its:
A) flexible plan made possible by a grid of interior iron columns.
B) rolled steel columns that resulted from English advances in metallurgy.
C) completely open plan made possible by great iron trusses.
D) glass facades made possible by steel window frames.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The Englishman who pioneered a method for producing cast iron using coal instead of expensive charcoal in his furnace was:
A) Abraham Darby.
B) Lancelot Brown.
C) Edmund Burke.
D) Thomas Telford.
E) Thomas Pritchard.
Q:
The author of Discourses on Architecture was:
A) Charles Barry.
B) Richard Upjohn.
C) A.W.N. Pugin.
D) Eugne-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The author of The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture was:
A) Charles Barry.
B) Richard Upjohn.
C) A.W.N. Pugin.
D) Eugne-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Sir William Chambers's Somerset House was built:
A) to exhibit Lord Burlington's collection of Neo-Classical paintings.
B) to serve as headquarters for the Neo-Palladians.
C) as a residence and workplace for Robert Adam.
D) to centralize the British government offices.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
A cenotaph is a:
A) mausoleum.
B) monument erected to someone who is not interred within it.
C) cemetery gateway based on an Egyptian pylon.
D) type of planetarium.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The purpose of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's town of Chaux was to:
A) provide entertainment for the royal court.
B) serve as a frontier outpost.
C) produce salt.
D) express the principles of the French Revolution.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Entry to Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's Htel de Thelluson was made:
A) through an ancient Roman, partially buried triumphal arch.
B) through an alle of plane trees.
C) between double temple-form gatehouses.
D) through a crypto-portico, or underground passage.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Soufflot's Panthen in Paris demonstrated Soufflot's interest in:
A) the style of Renaissance buildings.
B) creating large courtyards.
C) religious symbolism.
D) lofty Gothic openness.
E) ancient Indian architecture.
Q:
The term "biensance" refers to:
A) the correct form of a building relative to its purpose and social rank.
B) the relationship of building parts to one another and to the whole.
C) the proper use of the classical language.
D) architectural fundamentals as represented by the "primitive hut."
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Ange-Jacques Gabriel designed the Petit Trianon:
A) beside the Htel de Thelluson.
B) in the forest near the town of Chaux.
C) in the Parisian Tuileries Gardens.
D) along the left bank of the Seine in view of Ntre-Dame Cathedral.
E) in the grounds at Versailles.
Q:
The designer of the Petit Trianon was:
A) Marie-Joseph Peyre.
B) Ange-Jacques Gabriel.
C) Jacques-Gabriel Soufflot.
D) Jacques-Denis Antoine.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Pensionnaires were French:
A) architects working for the government.
B) architects working for the king.
C) architectural students studying in Rome.
D) architectural students living in pensions or boarding houses.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The Parisian Htel des Monnaies was the:
A) French national bank.
B) royal mint.
C) urban palace of Count Monnaies.
D) equivalent to Fort Knox in the United States.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The dominant feature(s) of the Ecole des Chirurgie:
A) are the hospital wards.
B) is the anatomical theater.
C) is the statue of Chirurgie, the goddess of medicine.
D) are the rooms intended to serve the infirm king.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Entry into the Ecole de Chirurgie is made through a:
A) portico like the Pantheon in Rome.
B) barrel-vaulted vestibule.
C) groin-vaulted foyer.
D) triumphal-archlike gateway.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The most influential of the French theorist-teachers was:
A) Flix Duban.
B) Jacques Gondouin.
C) J.-F. Blondel.
D) Francois Mansart.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
A leader of the Neo-Palladian movement was:
A) Christopher Wren.
B) James Gibbs.
C) Inigo Jones.
D) Colen Campbell.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The author of A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful was:
A) William Kent.
B) Sir Horace Walpole.
C) Lancelot Brown.
D) Edmund Burke.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
From the mid-1750s to the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi:
A) developed many royal gardens.
B) issued a series of engravings.
C) served as an assistant to Lord Burlington.
D) authored books on classical antiquities.
E) designed many chapels in Italy.
Q:
The term "ordonnance" refers to:
A) the correct form of a building relative to its purpose and social rank.
B) the correct relationship of building parts to one another and to the whole.
C) the proper use of the classical language.
D) architectural fundamentals as represented by the "primitive hut."
E) drawings of ancient buildings.
Q:
At Adam's library at Kenwood, Robert Adam spread a thin "net" of stucco ornament, inspired by:
A) the English Neo-Palladians.
B) ancient Roman work as interpreted by Raphael and Giulio Romano.
C) research at ancient Greek sites in Paestum.
D) Robert Wood's investigations of Palmyra and Baalbek.
E) the antiquities of India.
Q:
The gardens of Blenheim Palace were laid out by:
A) Lancelot Brown.
B) Horace Walpole.
C) William Kent.
D) Lord Burlington.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The Chteau of Versailles began as:
A) a royal hunting lodge with a C-shaped plan.
B) the property of the king's finance minister.
C) a place for ftes, or grand parties.
D) a royal palace, which burned and was replaced.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The plan for the gardens at Versailles by Le Ntre makes use of:
A) one straight avenue.
B) dense forested areas.
C) streams of water.
D) obelisks and columns.
E) formal flowerbeds.
Q:
The designer who did NOT work at Versailles was:
A) J. H. Mansart.
B) Louis Le Vau.
C) Andre Le Ntre.
D) Francois Mansart.
E) All of the answers are correct.
Q:
Christopher Wren's design of St. Paul's triple-shell dome was influenced by that of:
A) St. Peter's in Rome.
B) St.-Louis-des-Invalides.
C) Ste. Marie de la Visitation.
D) St. Stephen Walbrook.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
From 1670 to 1686, Sir Christopher Wren designed ________ of the rebuilt burnt parish churches in London.
A) thirty-four
B) fifty-one
C) fifteen
D) forty-three
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Christopher Wren's "Great Model" design for St. Paul's Cathedral in London was rejected because it:
A) had strong Catholic overtones.
B) drew too much on French models.
C) had too much Gothic detailing.
D) rejected the ideas of Inigo Jones, Wren's predecessor.
E) drew too much on French models and had too much Gothic detailing.
Q:
All of the following appear at Sir Roger Pratt's Coleshill in Berkshire EXCEPT:
A) a water table.
B) an entry frontispiece.
C) a heavy cornice.
D) a rooftop balustrade.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The designer of Blenheim Palace was:
A) William Talman.
B) Sir John Vanbrugh.
C) Sir Christopher Wren.
D) Roger Pratt.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The design of James Gibbs's church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London was illustrated in his publication titled:
A) A Book of Architecture.
B) English Church Architecture.
C) Four Books of Architecture.
D) Palladio and Palladianism.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Discuss Baroque architecture as an instrument of the Counter-Reformation.
Q:
Discuss the work of one of the following:
a. Francesco Borromini
b. Gian Lorenzo Bernini
c. Guarino Guarini
Q:
The church of Die Wies is the work of:
A) the Asam brothers.
B) the Zimmermann brothers.
C) the Dientzenhofer family.
D) the Neumann brothers.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Compare the German interpretation of the Baroque as exemplified by the Zimmerman brothers and the French interpretation as exemplified by Francois Mansart.
Q:
One of the three men who were responsible for the design of the east faade of the Louvre in Paris was:
A) Guarino Guarini.
B) Francesco Borromini.
C) Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
D) Sebastian Serlio.
E) Le Vau.
Q:
Compare the work of James Gibbs to that of Nicholas Hawksmoor.
Q:
The accepted design for the east faade of the Louvre in Paris made use of:
A) end pavilions, a central pedimented unit, and connecting stoalike wings.
B) triplet columns, end pedimented units, and a central stoalike bay.
C) paired pilasters, a central pedimented unit, and tower-like wings.
D) a continuous file of giant-order columns.
E) a set of alternating Corinthian and Ionic columns.
Q:
Distinctive interior features of Francois Mansart's early designs for the church of the Val-de-Grce were:
A) illusionistically painted stucco vaults.
B) telescoping vertical spaces generated by a series of truncated low-slung domes.
C) wall-pillars.
D) warped ribbed vaults.
E) alternating sets of Corinthian and Ionic columns atop high pedestals.
Q:
In a French chteau, the corps-de-logis is the:
A) group of servants who manage the estate.
B) grand room beyond the foyer.
C) body of the house.
D) house together with its many outbuildings.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Il Ges in Rome:
A) was built as a preaching church.
B) has a faade composition modeled on Alberti's S. Maria Novella.
C) has a high degree of faade three-dimensionality.
D) was built as the mother church of the Jesuit order.
E) All of the answers are correct.
Q:
The late sixteenth-century pope who began the replanning of Rome was:
A) Sixtus IV.
B) Nicholas V.
C) Sixtus V.
D) Julius II.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
At S. Peter's, Bernini did all of the following EXCEPT:
A) begin construction of two bell towers.
B) add the giant forecourt colonnade.
C) decorate the interior.
D) build the dome.
E) All of the answers are correct.
Q:
The plan of S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, consists of:
A) an undulating oval.
B) a six-pointed star.
C) a circle.
D) based on that of Il Ges.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The Piazza Navona was originally:
A) the ancient Roman Stadium of Domitian.
B) the ancient Roman Forum of Nerva.
C) the site of a lake in front of Nero's Golden House.
D) a botanical garden near the Palace of Augustus.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Francesco Borromini was involved in the design of all of the following buildings EXCEPT:
A) S. Agnese.
B) S. Ivo.
C) S. Maria della Pace.
D) S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.
E) All of the answers are correct.
Q:
All of the following are part of the Piazza del Popolo EXCEPT:
A) identical domed churches.
B) a central obelisk.
C) an oval plan.
D) a set of viewing terraces.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The dome of Guarino Guarini's Sindone Chapel makes use of:
A) ribs like those seen in Moorish Spain.
B) a telescoping, layered vault of rotated polygons.
C) wall pillars.
D) a wooden superstructure covered with stucco.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The Karlskirche in Vienna included historical elements incorporated from all of the following EXCEPT:
A) S. Agnese in the Piazza Navonna.
B) the Pantheon in Rome.
C) Trajan's Column.
D) Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
E) None of the answers are correct.
Q:
Christoph Dientzenhofer designed the church of St. Nicholas on the Lesser Side in Prague to have a:
A) triple-shell dome.
B) longitudinal plan with deep wall-pillars set between chapels below and galleries above.
C) binding arch.
D) dome on a drum rising above a pedimented portico flanked by twin campaniles.
E) None of the answers is correct.