Architecture and Society: Quizzes

Sample Quiz #1

List of Building Names for Slide Identification
Cathedral, Chartres, France
S. Andrea, Mantua, Italy
St. Peter’s, Rome
Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Villa Rotunda, Vicenza, Italy
S. Carlo alla Quattro Fontane, Rome
Chateau, Vaux-le-Vicomte, France
Newton’s Cenotaph
Bishop’s Palace, Galveston, Texas
Castel Beranger, Paris, France
Casa Mila, Barcelona, Spain
Schroeder House, Utrecht, Holland
Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois
Chapel, Ronchamps, France
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Dulles Airport, Washington, D.C.
Capitol Buildings, Dacca, Bangladesh
Mother’s [...]

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Posted January 21, 2010

Sample Quiz #2

List of Building Names for Slide Identification (order is as presented in class)

1. Monte Alban, Oaxaca, Mexico
2. Acoma, New Mexico
3. Mont St. Michel, France
4. “Falling Water,” Bear Run, Pennsylvania
5. Condominiums, Sea Ranch, California
6. Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona
7. Sea Ranch, California
8. The Woodlands, Texas
9. The Cloisters, Cincinnati
10. Hagia Sophia, Constantinople
11. Maisons Jaoul, Neuilly, France
12. Coliseum, Rome
13. Pont du Gard, Nimes, France
14. Town Hall, North Easton, Massachusetts
15. Ames Gate Lodge, [...]

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Sample Quiz #3

List of Architects Slide Identification

A. Kallman, McKinnell and Knowles
B. Pietro Belluschi and Pier Luigi Nervi
C. Le Corbusier
D. Erik Bryggman
E. Louis Kahn
F. H. H. Richardson
G. Robert Venturi
H. Ragnar Ostberg
I. Ralph Erskine
J. Alvar Aalto
K. James Stirling
L. Jose Luis Sert
M. Charles Moore
N. Philip Webb
O. Thomas Jefferson
P. Michelangelo
Q. David Adjaye
R. Frank Gehry
S. No architect noted
List of Building Names for Slide Identification
1. Stoughton House, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2. Glessner House, Chicago, Illinois
3. History Faculty, Cambridge, England
4. Exeter Library, Exeter, N.H.
5. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, [...]

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Posted January 21, 2010

Sample Final Exam

ARC 308 Final Exam
Larry Speck Fall 2009
PART I.  SHORT  MULTIPLE CHOICE (30 points)
Mark the best selection in the space provided to the left of the number.
______ 1. Which of the following was designed by Alvar Aalto?
Paimio Sanatorium
Exeter Library
Library, Stockholm
La Tourette Monastery
______ 2. Which of the following was designed by Le Corbusier?
a. Viipuri Library
b. Dormitory, Bryn Mawr
c. Villa Sarabhai, Ahmedabad, India
d. Capital Buildings, Dacca, Bangladesh
______ 3. Which of [...]

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Posted January 21, 2010