Theory Of The Architecture! Ultimate Trivia Quiz
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- 1.Architect of the “Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts”, Norwich.
- A.
Norman Foster
- B.
Renzo Piano
- C.
Kenzo Tange
- D.
Paul Rudolph
- 2.American architect who designed one of the first sky scrapers in New York and the designer of the Woolworth building which was built in 1911-13.
- A.
Henry Louis Sullivan
- B.
Daniel Burnham
- C.
Cass Gilbert
- D.
Minoru Yamasaki
- 3.His work evolved away from concern with the roots of modernism towards a wide-ranging borrowing from architectural history.
- A.
Le Corbusier
- B.
Michael Graves
- C.
Henry Sullivan
- D.
Richard Meier
- 4.Founder of the Bauhaus.
- A.
Gropius Walter
- B.
Le Corbusier
- C.
Peter Behrens
- D.
Adolf Meier
- 5.His architecture is notable for its simple, platonic forms and compositions through the use of bricks and poured concrete/ poured in place concrete masonry. He developed a contemporary archive of great power and monumentality.
- A.
Henry Louis Sullivan
- B.
Mies van de Rohe
- C.
Felix Candela
- D.
Louis Kahn
- 6.Architect of the pilgrimage chapel of Notre Dame de Haut at Ronchamp.
- A.
Louis Sullivan
- B.
Fry Maxwell
- C.
Le Corbusier
- D.
Paul Rudolph
- 7.MaisonDomino, basic building diagram, a prototype for mass production with free-standing pillars and rigid over sailing floors belongs to?
- A.
Frank Lloyd Wright
- B.
Le Corbusier
- C.
Lucio Costa
- D.
Norman Foster
- 8.Although he built little or nothing, he has many architectural drawings reveal a new concern with a form that anticipates the high renaissance style of Bramante in Rome and in particular the designs for the New St. Peters.
- A.
Leonardo da Vinci
- B.
Bramante Donato
- C.
Fillippo Brunelleschi
- D.
Bernini Lorenzo
- 9.Outstanding Scottish architect, furniture designer, and painter, seen as a pioneer of the Modern Movement and perhaps more importantly, as the greatest flowering of the British Arts and Crafts movement.
- A.
. Lucio Costa
- B.
Paul Rudolph
- C.
Robert Adam
- D.
Charles Mackintosh
- 10.His manner of design working up an architectural design/idea from an expressionistic type sketch as his personal philosophy of “Dynamism” at a very early stage an attitude to design that was both idiosyncratic and brilliant.
- A.
Charles Mackintosh
- B.
Richard Meier
- C.
Erich Mendelsohn
- D.
Paul Rudolph
- 11.Architect of the “Seagram building” New York.
- A.
Walter Gropius
- B.
Mies van de Rohe
- C.
Louis Sullivan
- D.
Cesar Pelli
- 12.German architect who was responsible for bringing the tent into the 20th century, it was his special gift to see minimal lightweight structure as liberating and a bridge to the natural or organic structure.
- A.
Frei Otto
- B.
Fry Maxwell
- C.
Eero Saarinen
- D.
Michael Graves
- 13.U.S.based architect, known best for his vast shimmering towers used as corporate headquarters. He describes himself as a “pragmatist” who feels that there are strength and energy flowing in everything including the energy in his projects themselves.
- A.
Daniel Burnham
- B.
Mies van de Rohe
- C.
Frank Gehry
- D.
Cesar Pelli
- 14.Leading Italian architect and designer concerned with technological innovation and environmentally balanced buildings.
- A.
Frank Gehry
- B.
Norman Foster
- C.
Renzo Piano
- D.
Kenzo Tange
- 15.Architecture is a personal effort” remarked by
- A.
Paul Rudolph
- B.
Adolf Loos
- C.
Frei Otto
- D.
Aldo Rossi
- 16.Architect of the “John Hancock Center, Chicago”
- A.
H.O.K
- B.
Daniel Burnham
- C.
Norman Foster
- D.
S.O.M
- 17.Architect of the “City Hall complex” in Tokyo.
- A.
Minoru Yamasaki
- B.
Renzo Piano
- C.
Kenzo Tange
- D.
Fumihiko Maki
- 18.Japanese architect, like many of his generation he experimented with aspects of western modernism. He was associated with the start of metabolism in 1960.
- A.
Minoru Yamasaki
- B.
Fumihiko Maki
- C.
Mario Bolta
- D.
Kenzo Tange
- 19.“Buildings should not be for walls and roof” belongs to,
- A.
Fry Maxwell
- B.
Paul Rudolph
- C.
Marcel Breuer
- D.
Peter Behrens
- 20.Architect of “Louvre, Pyramid” in Paris.
- A.
Fumihiko Maki
- B.
Norman Foster
- C.
Ieoh Ming Pei
- D.
Kenzo Tange
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