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Architectural Styles Quiz
Test your knowledge of architectural styles from Neoclassicism to Postmodernism with our engaging quiz! Dive deep into the history, characteristics, and key figures of various architectural movements.
Get ready to explore:
- Major architectural styles throughout history
- Influential architects and their contributions
- Material innovations and design philosophies
During 18th, 19th until the 21st century, revival of Greek and Roman orders were used as decorative motifs
Revivalist Architecture
Romanticism
Gothic Revival
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism used simple and strongly geometric composition
True
False
Shallow reliefs on facades are seen on romanticism style.
True
False
This structure is an example of Neoclassical Style.
Royal Pavilion
Old Customs Warehouse
Paris Opera House
Strawberry Hill
In the 20th century, this style remained accepted for the style of churches in the U.S.
Gothic Revival
Beaux-Arts Eclecticism
Romanticism
Neoclassicism
This type of Revival Architecture uses symmetrical plans and eclectic use of architectural features, which often gives a massive, elaborate, and ostentatious effect.
École des Beaux-Arts
Gothic Revival
Romanticism
Beaux-Arts Eclecticism
This school taught a way of organizing a building into a balanced hierarchy of spatial elements and planning principles.
School of Fine Arts established in 1918 by the French government.
School of Fine Arts established in 1819 by the French government.
School of Fine Arts established in 1918 by the Spanish government.
School of Fine Arts established in 1819 by the Spanish government.
It incorporated Gothic and Renaissance elements, and used modern materials, such as iron and glass. It drew upon the principles of French neoclassicism.
École de Beaux-Arts
École de Beuaux-Arts
École des Beuaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts
An approach to urban planning characterized by monumentally placed buildings, grand promenades, spacious plazas, and classical sculpture.
Beautiful City Movement
Movement Beautiful City
City Beautiful Movement
The Industrial revolution, has vast economic and social upheavals, stemming from mechanization and mass production, required new building types for industry, commerce, and transportation.
True
False
Reinforced concrete and cheaper glass are examples of material innovations during the Industrial Age.
True
False
Skyscrapers are of French invention.
True
False
He stated that from follows function.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Louis Sullivan
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Johnson Wax
The organization of a skyscraper—its identical, stacked floors to express a strong visual identity was his greatest contribution.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Louis Sullivan
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Johnson Wax
Louis Sullivan used nature-inspired decoration to humanize his structures.
True
False
Louis Sullivan believed that buildings should be spread out horizontally.
True
False
This architecture promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world.
Art Deco
Organic Architecture
Style Moderne
Art Nouveau
This appeared first in France before the WW1.
New Art
Art Nouveau
Style Moderne
Moorish and Gothic elements
This is based on geometric motifs, streamlined and curvilinear forms, sharply defined outlines that uses bold colors and plastics.
Art Deco
Art Nouveau
Organic Architecture
New Art
This is based on the return to craftsmanship and the integration of art, design, and architecture.
Art Nouveau
Art Deco
New Art is characterized by fluid, undulating motifs, often derived from natural forms.
True
False
The architect that combined Moorish and Gothic elements with naturalistic forms, their textured, undulating shapes recall waves, sea coral, and fish bones
Hector Guimard
Antoni Gaudi
Allyza Ocido
Adrian Menchavez
Expressionism is an European movement that generated jagged and dynamic forms in both painting and architecture.
True
False
This style is inspired by a Mondrian painting.
The Style
Constructivism
Expressionism
Bauhaus
Constructivism emphasizes on functional machine parts.
True
False
This school is a synthesis of technology, craft, and design aesthetics and emphasized on "form follows function."
The Bauhaus Building, Dessau, France
The Bauhaus Building, Dessau, Germany
The Bauhaus Building, Dessau, USA
The Bauhaus Building, Dessau, Italy
Simple geometric forms, large untextured surfaces (often white), large areas of glass, and general use of steel or reinforced concrete construction.
International Style
Organic Architecture
He believes that "Less is more."
Charles Edouard Jeanneret
Mies van der Rohe
Alvar Aalto
Eero Saarinen
During this era, Architects began enlivening facades with color, pattern, and ornaments.
Revival Architecture
Postmodernism
Neoclassicism
Expressionism
A Finnish architect; one of the first modernists to fuse technology with craft.
Eero Saarinen
Alvar Aalto
Louis Kahn
Robert Venturi
His buildings followed a unique design direction according to the particulars of their site and purpose.
Eero Saarinen
Louis Kahn
Robert Venturi
Alvar Aalto
"Architectural form should reflect a building's social purpose."
Louis Kahn
Robert Venturi
Alvar Aalto
Eero Saarinen
"Less is a bore."
Louis Kahn
Alvar Aalto
Robert Venturi
Eero Saarinen
He became one of postmodernism's biggest promoters.
James Stirling
Michael Graves
Robert Venturi
Philip Johnson
He sculpted his buildings to convey solidity.
James Stirling
Michael Graves
Robert Venturi
Philip Johnson
His architecture often has a childlike, cartoonish quality, shown to exaggerated effect.
James Stirling
Michael Graves
Robert Venturi
Philip Johnson
Used to describe massive modern architecture built of reinforced concrete, with the concrete's rough, abrasive surfaces left exposed.
High Tech
Brutalism
Deconstructivism
Green Architecture
Pioneered by Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, and Renzo Piano.
High Tech
Brutalism
Deconstructivism
Green Architecture
Drew upon the literary theories of Jacques Derrida, who holds that "there is no fixed truth but only multiple interpretations."
High Tech
Brutalism
Deconstructivism
Green Architecture
Using bent, angled and exploded forms to represent the uncertainty of ourtimes.
High Tech
Brutalism
Deconstructivism
Green Architecture
This style is to ensure that our actions and decisions today do not inhibit the opportunities of future generations.
High Tech
Brutalism
Deconstructivism
Green Architecture
He is best known for the design of tubular steel Wassily Chair
MARCEL BREUER
CHARLES-EDOUARD JEANNERET (LE CORBUSIER)
EERO SAARINEN
OSCAR NIEMEYER
He uses undulating shape was meant to evoke the excitement of high speed flight.
MARCEL BREUER
CHARLES-EDOUARD JEANNERET (LE CORBUSIER)
EERO SAARINEN
OSCAR NIEMEYER
Functionality and the use of pre-stressed concrete dominate his designs.
MARCEL BREUER
CHARLES-EDOUARD JEANNERET (LE CORBUSIER)
EERO SAARINEN
OSCAR NIEMEYER
BUCKMINSTER FULLER created the Dymaxion House, the first "machine for living" - a portable home inside from metal alloys and plastics.
True
False
WALTER GROPIUS created the prototype of modern architecture.
True
False
He veered away from the simple geometric solutions and built organic free forms that could respond to complex planning and structural requirements.
FREI OTTO
IEOH MING PEI
LOUIS ISADORE KAHN
MICHAEL GRAVES
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