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Q:
Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International was to:
A) have a revolving cone inside it.
B) be 1300 feet tall.
C) have a revolving cylinder inside it.
D) be a fantastic double spiral.
E) All of the answers are correct.
Q:
The Soviet Pavilion at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Dcoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris was designed by:
A) Viktor Vesnin.
B) Vladimir Tatlin.
C) Konstantin Melnikov.
D) Alexandr Tatlin.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Hendrik Petrus Berlage is best known for his:
A) Eigen Haard housing.
B) Amsterdam Stock Exchange.
C) DeDageraad Housing.
D) Amsterdam City Hall.
E) All of the answers are correct.
Q:
Bruno Taut's Glass Pavilion was built for the:
A) 1913 Citt Nuova Exposition in Milan.
B) 1911 Expressionist exhibition in Posen.
C) 1914 Werkbund exhibition in Cologne.
D) 1925 Exposition des Arts Dcoratifs in Paris.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Rudolf Steiner's Goetheanum II in Dornach housed a:
A) center for meditation.
B) concert hall for Expressionistic music.
C) theater for Expressionistic plays.
D) spiritual high school.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The Chrysler Building's crownlike dome is made of:
A) polished marble slabs.
B) stainless steel.
C) shiny terracotta.
D) coated copper.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The designer of Radio City Music Hall in New York was:
A) William Van Alen.
B) Wallace K. Harrison.
C) Ely Jacques Kahn.
D) Raymond Hood.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The Dutch De Stijl Movement was the creation of Bauhaus interloper:
A) J.J.P. Oud.
B) Theo van Doesburg.
C) Cornelis van Eesteren.
D) Gerrit Rietveld.
E) Adolf Loos.
Q:
The characteristics of Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie houses include:
A) cantilevered eaves.
B) strong horizontal brick coursing.
C) a central hearth.
D) his idea of "breaking the box."
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
All of the following men worked on interior ornamentation at Trinity Church EXCEPT:
A) John LaFarge.
B) Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
C) William Morris.
D) Edward Burne-Jones.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Innovations at Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building included all of the following EXCEPT:
A) balanced natural lighting from a central, full-height atrium.
B) built-in filing cabinets.
C) central air-conditioning.
D) custom-designed metal furnishings.
E) All of the answers are correct.
Q:
The textural variety and massing irregularity of H.H. Richardson's Watts Sherman House in Newport, Rhode Island, anticipated:
A) the Second Empire styles of the 1860s and 1870s.
B) the Secession Building designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich.
C) the residential Queen Anne style of the 1880s and 1890s.
D) the Prairie style houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
E) the rural houses designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Q:
Frank Lloyd Wright's work became accessible to European architects through:
A) the efforts of Peter Behrens.
B) the publication of the Wasmuth portfolios.
C) Bauhaus publications.
D) his famous lecture tour there in 1910-11.
E) the Wendingen group of Amsterdam architects.
Q:
Louis Sullivan's design for the Auditorium Building in Chicago was influenced by:
A) his young assistant Frank Lloyd Wright.
B) McKim, Mead, and White's Boston Public Library.
C) Richardson's Marshall Field Wholesale Store.
D) his training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Louis Sullivan's essay on skyscraper design is titled:
A) Tower Building as Art.
B) The Chicago School and Its Ideas.
C) Form Follows Function.
D) The Tall Building Artistically Considered.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
One of the features of the Wainwright Building in St. Louis is that it has:
A) terracotta panels like those used on the Carson Pirie Scott Department Store.
B) ornate terracotta spandrels under each window.
C) terracotta panels designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
D) cast-iron ornament designed by St. Louis artisans.
E) windows that have large fixed panes between operable sashes.
Q:
The skyscraper-enclosure technique in which lightweight frames holding glazing are brought forward of the structural columns is called:
A) curtain-wall construction.
B) glazed-spandrel construction.
C) Chicago-wall construction.
D) Sullivan-wall construction.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Chicago windows are windows that have:
A) single, large expanses of glazing.
B) large fixed panes between operable sashes.
C) glazing surrounded by ornamented terra cotta.
D) four large operable sashes.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
The first use of a curtain wall occurred at the:
A) Reliance Building in Chicago.
B) Hallidie Building in San Francisco.
C) Wainwright Building in St. Louis.
D) Empire State Building in New York City.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
Discuss the features of architectural education at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Q:
Compare the architectural work of William Morris, Richard Norman Shaw, and C.F.A. Voysey.
Q:
Discuss the features of Otto Wagner's Postal Savings Bank in Vienna on the basis of materials and methods of construction.
Q:
Discuss the architectural features of the first skyscrapers in the United States.
Q:
Discuss H.H. Richardson's manipulation of wall surfaces using both wood and masonry.
Q:
All of the following men wrote important books on modern architecture EXCEPT:
A) Gustav Platz.
B) Nikolaus Pevsner.
C) Henry Russell Hitchcock.
D) Reyner Banham.
E) All of the answers are correct.
Q:
Adolf Loos described his method of spatial composition as:
A) the Neue Sachlichkeit.
B) Le Plan Libre.
C) the Zeitgeist.
D) the Raumplan.
E) the Pilotis.
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 for Ernst Ludwig, who established an artists' colony in the suburb of Mathildenhhe, was designed by:
A) Otto Wagner.
B) Joseph Hoffman.
C) Joseph Maria Olbrich.
D) Hermann Muthesius.
E) None of the answers is correct.
Q:
In 1855, Richard Morris Hunt established an Ecole-modeled atelier in New York that was:
A) a distinctive French hotel.
B) a studio space where American students could come for architectural training.
C) an architectural firm run by American students from Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
D) an architectural workshop run by French students from Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
E) a mansion for European nobility.
Q:
The faade of Otto Wagner's Postal Savings Bank in Vienna is composed of:
A) marble veneer attached by means of aluminum-capped bolts.
B) pebble-dash stucco struck to look like stone.
C) aluminum panels attached with marble dowels.
D) concrete cast in detailed wooden forms to produce an intricate geometric pattern.
E) terracotta and glass clipped onto an internal steel skeleton.
Q:
The site plan for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago was prepared by:
A) D.H. Burnham.
B) Charles McKim.
C) Charles Atwood.
D) Frederick Law Olmsted.
E) None of the answers is correct.
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.