Quiz

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1. A supporting member serving the function of a pier, column, or pilaster and carved or molded in the form of a draped, human, female figure.
A. Entablature
B. Caryatid
C. Atlas
D. Telamon
2. A portico having seven columns, at one or at each end.
A. Hypotrachelium
B. Hectastyle
C. Heptastyle
D. Hecatonstylon
3. Who designed the dome of the Santa Maria Del Fiore (Florence Cathedral) in 1420?
A. Gianlorenzo Bernini
B. Donato Bramante
C. Michelangelo Buonarroti
D. Filippo Brunelleschi
4. What was Le Corbusier real name?
A. Charles Edouard Jeanneret
B. Edouard Jean Pierce
C. Charles de Pierce
D. Guy Jean Edouard
5. The proposed mass-produced housing scheme called the "Dom-ino House", was designed by:
A. Richard Neutra
B. Le Corbusier
C. Frank Lloyd Wright
D. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
6. Who designed the Centre de Pompidou in Paris?
A. Norman Foster
B. Renzo Piano & Richard Rogers
C. Philip Johnson
D. Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill
7. The Rialto Bridge in Venice, which was once a simple wooden bridge, was designed by:
A. da Ponte
B. Palladio
C. Michelangelo
D. Scamozzi
8. Who said that the design "was made in an afternoon, drawn up in a week and calculated during construction" of the remarkable Church of Our Miraculous Lady at Narvarte, Mexico:
A. Eduardo Torroja
B. Pier Luigi Nervi
C. Felix Candela
D. Luis Barragan
9. Who designed the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum in 1997?
A. Richard Meier
B. Frank Gehry
C. Morphosis
D. I.M Pei
10. Put these Corinthian Order details in sequence beginning with the part nearest to the ground. I. modillion II. dado III. architrave IV. plinth
A. II, III, IV, I
B. III, I, II, IV
C. IV, II, III, I
D. IV, I, II, III