UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, ABBOTTABAD CAMPUS
HTC-III CLASS ASSIGNMENT 5
NEO-CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
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1.An Age of Reason in which Scientific inquiry attracted more attention is :
Renaissance Age of Enlightenment
2. ______brought heightened economic competition in Architecture was brought to western society by which style?
Renaissance baroque Rococo
3. _____________ made a call for a return to pure and uncluttered forms of architecture.
Abbé Laugier William Kent
4. Which style emerged as a reaction to the frivolity and excessive ornament of the baroque and rococo styles?
Art Novae neo Classism Art Deco
5. ______________weren’t just about how buildings looked; it reflected bigger ideas in society.
Neoclassicism Modernism
6. __________________ is the philosophical (in depth) study of beauty, taste and nature of art.
Aesthetics Sublime
7. _____________________ gardens aimed to create a more natural and idealized representation of nature
French Romantic Gardens English Picturesque garden
8. Which gardens were more formal or structured?
French Romantic Gardens English Picturesque garden
9.Neo Classicism’s foundation was laid in French architecture during the reign of Louis XIV when the king rejected a
__________ scheme for the new east facade of the Louvre by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Renaissance baroque Rococo
10._________ was the first Commission to reflect is something of a manifesto for the neo-classical movement.
Petit Trianon Versailles Place
11.___________ featured Naturalistic Landscaping and Neo-Palladian Architecture.
British Picturesque Movement French Rationalism
12.________ featured Pristine Rational Geometric forms inserted in nature
British Picturesque Movement French Rationalism
13.Common feature between British Picturesque Movement and French Rationalism
rational simplicity idea of beauty
14.Contrasting feature between British Picturesque Movement and French Rationalism
rational simplicity idea of beauty
15.The difference in the idea of beauty in approaches of British Picturesque Movement and French Rationalism
are evident from their:
Facades landscapes
16.Formal geometry of French gardens contradicts the _________British approach to landscaping
Naturalistic Sublime
17.French Romanticism in Architecture was based on the ideas of Need presented by Laugier and _____________as idea
of Beauty by Burke.
Beauty Sublime
18.French Rationalism in Architecture was based on the ideas of Need presented by Laugier and _____________as idea
of Beauty by Burke.
Beauty Sublime
19.One amateur architect who spearheaded this shift in focus of English Architecture towards a logical and Rational was
Lord Burlington who after visiting Venice and studying the work of___________.
Andrea Palladio William Kant
20.Concept of Picturesque was presented by:
Edmund Bruke William Kant
21.Chiswick house is design of:
Lord Burlington William Kant
22.design of Chiswick house is inspired by:
Villa Rotunda Petit Trianon
23.___________has been described as "the most splendid Palladian house” in England.
Holkham Hall Rousham House
24.The eclectic approach is prominent in whose work?
Henry Rampton Robert Adam John Soane
25.One of the problems of the ecclesial approach was the rise of typological confusion that came to characterize the
architecture of the end of the 19th century is labelled as:
Crisis of Style Pastiche
26.Revivalist Movement in Britain favored which style
Greek Gothic Both None
27.Whose practice valued space, geometry ,massing and light as core values of Architecture.
Henry Rampton Robert Adam John Soane
28.America after its liberation adopted_____________ style.
Neo Palladian Romanesque
Explain the central ideas of ideal piece of architecture by Abbé Laugier in his book “An Essay on Architecture”. How he
viewed the current practices of his time?
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How was beauty viewed in enlightenment era?
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Discuss Edmund Burke ‘s concept of beauty
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Discuss William Kent’s concept of beauty in connection with Term Picturesque.
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Discuss the characteristics of English Picturesque garden.
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