THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE

1. What is a comprehensive plan showing the essence of a proposal?

a. Master plan
b. Complex Plan
c. Comprehensive Plan
d. Master Development Plan

2. Who said that architecture by definition is like “frozen music”?

a. Renzo Piano
b. Von Schelling
c. Philip Johnson
d. Jean Nouvel

3. What do you call the early and typical example that exhibits the essential features of
a class or group and on which later stages are based or judged?

a. Prototype
b. Pre-model
c. Pre-design
d. Module

4. What do you call a number of secondary forms clustered about a dominant, central
parent-form?

a. Radial Form
b. Clustered Form
c. Linear Form
d. Centralized Form

5. Who said, “Architecture is a concern for a design as a Gesamtkunstwerk – a total

a. Alvar Aalto
b. Adolf Loos
c. Albert Speer
d. Louis Kahn

6. What is produced when the object is not facing the light?

a. Shade
b. Contrast
 c. Emphasis
d. Shadow

7. What is an architectural style that refers to the construction initiated by Sir Joseph
Paxton in the Crystal Palace?

a. Deconstructivism
b. Modernism
c. Structuralism
d. Radicalism

8. What is a limited space that a person or group uses and defends as an exclusive
reserve?

a. Private space
b. Territoriality
c. Privacy
d. Personalization

9. What are spaces grouped by proximity or the sharing of a common visual trait or
relationship?

a. Clustered organization
b. Radiant organization
c. Grid organization
d. Centered organization

10. Who coined the term biorealism, which means “the inherent and inseparable
relationship between man and nature”?

a. Walter Gropius
b. Karl Schinkel
c. Le Corbusier
d. Norman Foster

11. Known as the measurement and study of the size and proportions of the human
body.

a. Anthropology
b. Anthropometry
c. Anthropomorology
d. Archaeometry
12. He graduated summa cum laude in architecture from Princeton University and his
first published book is the much-acclaimed Complexity and Contradiction in
Architecture in 1966.

a. Charless Bulfinch
b. IM Pei
c. Kevin Roche
d. Robert Venturi

13. A line extended becomes a _____________ with properties of length and width,
shape, surface, orientation and position.

a. Volume
b. Point
c. Plane
d. Line

14. In this type of relationship when grouping two or more forms, the forms
interpenetrate each other’s space and they need not to share any visual traits.

a. Edge-to-edge contact
b. Interlocking volumes
c. Face-to-face contact
d. Spatial tension

15. Who wrote the book or treatise, “De re Arquitectura decem”? A copy of which was
accidentally discovered by a monk in a secluded monastery in France during the 15th
century.

a. Vitruvius
b. Bramante
c. Palladio
d. Filarete

16. What is a central line that bisects a two-dimensional body or figure or about which a
three-dimensional body or figure is symmetrical? Also, a straight line to which
elements in a composition are referred for measurement or symmetry.

a. Central
b. Perpendicular
c. Symmetry
d. Axis
17. What is considered the 1st Pan-European architectural style since the Imperial
Roman Architecture and is known in England as Norman Architecture?

a. Byzantine Architecture
b. Neoclassical Architecture
c. Baroque Architecture
d. Romanesque Architecture

18. Known as an art form made of waste ceramic pieces applies as surface treatment.

a. Terrazzo
b. Trompe’ l’oeil
c. Gesso
d. Trencadis

19. What is the period in Architectural development when European architecture moved
from the traditional rectangular basilica forms to the classically inspired byzantine
style?

a. Orthodox
b. Classical
c. Baroque
d. Early Christian

20. Known as a design characteristic that is showy and sometimes deficient in good
taste.

a. Avant garde
b. Flamboyant
c. Lancette
d. Art deco

21. Color adjacent to each other on the color wheel are considered to be:

a. Analogous
b. Monochromatic
c. Triad
d. Complementary

22. What deals with the development of plan arrangement to serve in a purely
mechanical way the commodity of a building?

a. Interior design
 b. Functional design
c. Aesthetic design
d. Mechanical design

23. The shape and structure of something as distinguished from its substance or
material. Also, the manner of arranging and coordinating the elements and parts of a
composition to produce a coherent image; the formal structure of a work of art.

a. Form
b. Figure
c. Function
d. Field

24. Who is the architect whose life was immortalized in the 2010 Sarah Morris film,
“Points on a Line”? He was also mentioned in the 1995 David Bowie song, “Thru
These Architect’s Eye” from the album Outside.

a. Van der Rohe

25. Essentials without which life could not be sustained.

a. Spiritual needs
b. Intellectual needs
c. Physical needs
d. Emotional needs

26. He holds the distinction of being the only Filipino Architect whose design for a
particular church has been built all over the country and even abroad.

a. Carlos Santos-Viola
b. Francisco Manosa
c. Tomas Mapua
d. Leandro Locsin

27. Who formulated the “Touch Zone Theory Space Psychology”?

a. Fruin
b. Friene
c. Fritta
d. Freud
28. Known as the exact correspondence in size, form, and arrangement of parts on
opposite sides of a dividing line or plane, or about a center or axis. Also, regularity of
form or arrangement in terms of like, reciprocal, or corresponding parts.

a. Similarity
b. Resemblance
c. Balance
d. Symmetry

29. A mode of city planning characterized by skyscrapers and muscularly-built civic

a. Phallomannerism
b. Phallicism
c. Phallomorphism
d. Phallocentrism

30. One of a pair of primary or secondary colors opposed to the other member of the
pair on a schematic chart or scale (color wheel).

a. Triad
b. Split-complementary color
c. Complementary
d. Analogous color