Survey Of Arch EC Quiz

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Greece, which cultures contributed to the development of Classic Greece?

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Greece, the Panathenaic way was a ceremonial path, traveled in celebration of the birth of

Who is credited with designing the first pyramid in Egypt?

In Egypt, which object was both the emblem of the sun god and the symbol of the annual rebirth of nature?

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Ancient India and Asia, the________ derives its form and primary meaning from the primitive funerary cairn or tumulus erected over the mortal remains of distinguished persons.

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Ancient India and Asia, studies like the one at Angkor Wat have greatly expanded our understanding of these cities as more than an isolated collection of great monuments. They raise important issues about

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Egypt, a BENBEN stone is thought to have been

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Mesopotamia, a ziggurat:

The image above is an example of the ____________ order.

Greek architecture reflected societal culture through the overarching concept of

Hindu temple designs are based on symbolic forms derived from

In this reconstructed view of the temple complex at Sanchi the large building in the center is called the ___________

In early Chinese history, new buildings were commissioned by

The design of the Imperial and Forbidden cities of Beijing was based on ____________, where the emperor received state visitors.

Some scholars believe that the very essence of Japanese architecture evolved from the design of

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on China and Japan, dougong are

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on China and Japan, a Tulou is

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on China and Japan, principles that emerge from Chinese and Japanese building philosophy are

_____________ wrote the Ten Books of Architecture, an architectural treatise which gives us insight on Roman construction during the time of Augustus in the 1st century B.C.

The Romans surpassed the scale limitations of post-and-lintel construction by harnessing the structural elements of

The beginning of Roman civilization, life and culture was predominantly influenced by

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Rome, in the center of the dome of the Pantheon is a 19-foot opening called

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Rome, the precursor to the Italian Piazza, the Spanish Plaza and North American Square was the

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Rome, the Ten Books on Architecture was written by

According to Professor Kara's lecture on Islamic architecture, the Prophet Mohammed's house with its large courtyard provided the first precedent for

According to Professor Kara's lecture on Islamic architecture, the architectural forms in mosques that are larger and taller than the adjacent structure and serve as a transition from large open spaces to smaller interior spaces are called

The plan of the ____________ shows what were originally two separate palaces, each organized around a large courtyard, one of which symbolizes the vision of paradise where the four rivers flow with water, wine, honey and milk.

The House of the Prophet in Medina became the prototype for the ____________.

A major requirement for medieval monasteries located in rural areas was

The stave church at Borgund and Urnes both rely on ____________ to admit light and air into the building.

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Medieval and Romanesque architecture, the drawing we know as the Plan of St. Gall survived due to

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Medieval and Romanesque architecture, as Europe moved into the 11th century, the most famous pilgrimage route was _________, a network of routes connecting holy places with the final destination being the cathedral which reported to house the remains of this saint.

Around 315, _______________ compared the act of Christ working to rebuild the human soul to that of rebuilding both the material church (more splendidly than before) and the universal Church in which God sets the people in "living, securely-laid and unshakable stones."

The term "Cathedral" designates a religious building that

According to Professor Kara's lecture on Early Christian and Byzantine architecture, the height difference between the nave roof and the isle roof in an early Roman basilica was used for

According to Professor Kara's lecture on Early Christian and Byzantine architecture, the interior and exterior of the early Roman basilica

The layouts of the Dogon villages in Mali are based upon

The organization of the urban Zulu village was influenced by

Ancestral Pueblo architecture of tribes in the Southwest established

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on the Americas, The Olmec site of ________ in present day Tabasco is one of the oldest known pyramidal constructions in Mesoamerica which established planning, building and religious practices that would be developed in cultures that followed.

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on the Americas, most Mesoamerican cultures had a four- directional symbolic-spatial cosmology with the cardinal directions-each associated with

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on the Americas, Mesoamericans were never compelled to invention were structural spans were concerned. All major civic and religious rituals

In medieval city planning, the church was typically located

In order to advance to the level of master builder, a building designer was required to

One of the hallmarks of the Gothic Style is

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Gothic architecture, invention was encouraged by

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Gothic architecture, structural vaults had been known for a millennia emerging from Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and Romanesque architecture. However, gothic structures reduced the weight of the vaults through the use of

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Gothic architecture, the gothic era differed not only in the sophistication of construction but also in the fact that the Gothic was part of

The palace and gardens at Versailles were laid out with an axes-over-grid plan, first seen in

The Baroque style developed around the Catholic Church's Counter-Reformation, where art and architecture were

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Baroque architecture, the garden and Chateau plans of Vaux le Vicomte and Versailles influenced

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Baroque architecture, ________ was trained as priest and was well educated in the classics, mathematics, and philosophy.

The scale and rigor of the Somerset House in London reflects the French tradition of ____________.

Thomas Jefferson learned to design buildings

According to Professor Robinson's lecture on Eighteenth Century architecture, this French Enlightenment Visionary building is the

According to Professor Robinson's lecture on Eighteenth Century architecture, the eighteenth century marked an important shift in thinking - from thought based on religion to thought based on

Leon Battista Alberti wrote the first architectural treatise of the Renaissance, in part, as a

The rebuilding of St. Peter's basilica in Rome

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on the Renaissance, Palladio was the first architect to consistently graft the ________ on to the front of the country house.

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on the Renaissance, James Gibbs wrote A Book of Architecture, an influential ________ published in London in 1728.

According to Professor Robinson's lecture on Modernity, ________ developed the modern skyscraper, where the glass moved to the exterior, cloaking the structure and creating the panoramic view from inside.

According to Professor Robinson's lecture on Modernity, a manifesto is

Frank Lloyd Wright created architecture that responded to

In Ornament and Crime, Adolf Loos compares the use of ornament in architecture to

The U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification program

The Rural Studio produced noble, socially conscious buildings using

According to Professor Kara's lecture on Mid-Late Twentieth Century architecture, the most recent successful public works are created by architects who are willing to experiment with

According to Professor Kara's lecture on Mid-Late Twentieth Century architecture, the Manhattan Transcripts by Bernard Tschumi

Arthur Mackmurdo's swirling design for this title page from Wren's City Churches is commonly referred to as the first ____________.

Before MIT started an architecture program in 1868, American architects had to either work in an architectural office or _____________ to learn the profession.

According to Professor Robinson's lecture on Nineteenth Century architecture, a new way for people to experience space came about with the invention of

According to Professor Robinson's lecture on Nineteenth Century architecture, Casa Mila in Barcelona is an example of architecture of the