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Exploring Architectural History and Influences

This quiz explores key concepts and historical developments in architecture, focusing on influential figures, styles, and movements throughout history.

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1 In ________, in both the Classical and Medieval periods, buildings were not attributed to specific individuals and the names of the architects frequently unknown, despite the vast scale of the many religious buildings extant from this period.

2 The 19th century English art critic, ________, in his Seven Lamps of Architecture, published 1849,[6] was much narrower in his view of what constituted architecture.

3 By mid-century, Modernism had morphed into the International Style, an aesthetic epitomized in many ways by the Twin Towers of New York's ________.

4 Buildings were ascribed to specific architects - ________, Alberti, Michelangelo, Palladio - and the cult of the individual had begun.

5 The Design Methodology Movement involving people such as ________ started searching for more people-oriented designs.

6 Among the philosophies that have influenced modern architects and their approach to building design are rationalism, ________, structuralism, poststructuralism, and phenomenology.

7 When ________ was first practiced, it was an avant-garde movement with moral, philosophical, and aesthetic underpinnings.

8 The architecture of different parts of ________ developed along different lines from that of Europe, Buddhist, Hindu and Sikh architecture each having different characteristics.

9 During the Medieval period ________ were formed by craftsmen to organize their trade and written contracts have survived, particularly in relation to ecclesiastical buildings.

10 There was still no dividing line between artist, ________ and engineer, or any of the related vocations, and the appellation was often one of regional preference.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the architecture firm of Sauerbruch Hutton designed the Museum Brandhorst in Munich.
  • the archaeological site of Topoxte (pictured) has the best surviving example of Postclassic Maya architecture in the Petén region of Guatemala.
  • in architecture, there are at least five kinds of buttress: clasping, angle, flying, set-back and diagonal.
  • the stained glass windows (pictured) of Alois Plum, found in many German churches in Germany, integrate the architecture of the church's space with the liturgy.
  • the Dutch Reformed Church (pictured), a Greek Revival building in Newburgh, New York that has been declared a National Historic Landmark, is considered the latest extant work of architect Alexander Jackson Davis that still largely reflects his original vision.
  • the distinctive pagodas created for Wadham's Oil and Grease Company of Milwaukee (pictured) are among the earliest examples of architecture used to forge a brand identity.
  • the design of Notre-Dame-des-Missions-du-cygne d'Enghien in Épinay-sur-Seine, France was inspired by the architectural styles of five continents.
  • the Failing Office Building in Portland, Oregon is named after a mayor of Portland and built by a locally prominent architecture firm.
  • Zion Memorial Chapel (pictured) in New Hamburg, New York, represents a late stage of Gothic Revival architecture in American churches.
  • MBM, a Barcelona based architecture firm, showed 32 designs that were never built in a 2003 show titled Lost Architectures.
  • Frederick Marrable resigned his post as Chief Architect to the Metropolitan Board of Works in London when they offered him a derisory salary raise.
  • I. M. Pei's IBM Somers Office Complex has been described as a "futuristic fortress" as a result of its unique modernist architecture.
  • architecture critics praised the Art Deco Ghostbusters Building, in New York City, when it opened in 1929.
  • Mooers House (pictured), an example of West Coast Victorian architecture, is named for its owner who struck gold after years of prospecting in the Mojave Desert.
  • hyperboloid structures in architecture are doubly-curved surfaces that may be formed entirely from a lattice of straight angle-iron and flat iron bars.
  • La Merced Cloister, a monastery complex in Mexico City, is known for its Baroque and Moorish architectural elements.
  • Josef Hoffmann co-founded two major art groups and his designs served as a precedent for modern architecture.
  • Islamic influences on Christian art are visible in Christian paintings, cult objects, and most of all architecture (example pictured).
  • Alsatian architect François Spoerry was an advocate of vernacular architecture.
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