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1. The Art and Science of Designing and Constructing and the Metric system. It is based on the height of an
a building English man with his arm raised.
a. Agriculture a. Le Modular
b. Archeology b. Modulor
c. Architecture c. Modular

d. Astronomy d. Modular System

2. A center of a field. 7. These architects believes that their buildings had to

belong to a higher order, returned to the Greek
a. Point mathematical system of proportions.
b. Line a. Roman Architects
c. Plane b. Renaissance Architects
d. Volume c. Filipino Architects
3. In tropical climates, facing these sides are regarded d. 20th century Architects
as the “hot sides”
8. He was an early proponent of mental mapping and
a. North and South notable with is book, The Image of the City.
b. East and West a. Kevin Lynch
c. West and South b. Frederick Law Olmstead
d. North and East c. Ebenezer Howard
4. A movement of being independent to the tradition d. Daniel Burnham
of antiquity after the Gothic style.
9. A slight convexity given to a column or tower, as
a. Art Nouveau to correct an optical illusion.
b. Art Deco a. Enthasis
c. Beaux-Art b. Entasis
d. Neoclassicism c. all of the above
5. If CCP Complex is an architectural territory of the d. none of the above
3rd National Artist for Architecture, then Escolta is
__________ territory? 10. What is the regular size of a twin size mattress?

a. Juan Arellano a. 38” x 75”

b. Juan Nakpil b. 53” x 75”

c. Antonio Toledo c. 60” x 80”

d. Andres T. Luna de San Pedro d. 76” x 80”

6. It is an anthropometric scale of proportions devised 11. Which of the following hues is in harmony with
by Le Corbusier. It was developed as a visual bridge each other?
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b. Blue, Blue-violet and red-violet 17. What Element of a city does a river represent?
c. Green, Orange and Red a. Edge
d. Red-violet, Violet, Red b. Path
12. Which of the following is a representation of two c. Node
point?
d. Landmark
a. Obelisk
18. A wide area of parks of undeveloped land
b. Menhir surrounding a community.
c. Minaret a. Landscape
d. Torii b. Meadow
13. “One of the great beauties of architecture is that c. Grass and Plants
each time, it is like life starting all over again.”
d. Greenbelt
a. Norman Foster
19. What is the comfortable height of a kitchen
b. Renzo Piano counter for Filipinos?
c. Jean Nouvel a. 0.80m
d. Santiago Calatrava b. 0.85m
14. It is the point of contact between mass and space c. 0.90m
a. Volume d. 0.95m
b. Linear Form 20. What style mostly influences Philippine
government structures?
c. Architectural Form
a. Baroque
d. Form
b. Romanesque
15. What is the original Architectural style of Manila
Cathedral in Intamuros? c. Beaux-Art
a. Baroque d. Neoclassicism
b. Rococo 21. What style mostly influences Philippine churches?
c. Romanesque a. Baroque
d. Gothic b. Romanesque
16. Most of Leandro Locsin’s Architectural styles are? c. Beaux-Art
a. Deconstructivism d. Neoclassicism
b. Brutalism 22. The principle of Functionalism is based on this
Architect’s dictum.
c. Modern
a. Frank Lloyd Wright
d. Post-Modern
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c. Luis Sulllivan 28. Air enters through openings located in the

windward side means?
d. Luis Khan
a. Air enters through openings located in the positive
23. What would be the effect of rapid increase of pressure zone.
population in an urban area?
b. Air enters through openings located in the negative
a. Loss of business opportunity pressure zone.
b. Increase of mortality rates c. Air enters through openings located in the neutral
c. Increase of informal settlers pressure zone.

d. All of the above d. None of the above

24. What is the best way to lessen noise cause by 29. A small window located right under the barandilla.
traffic? That allows air to come into the house through
elaborate grillwork or wooded balustrades.
a. Tall trees
a. Bangguerahan
b. Ground Grass Covers
b. Ventanillas
c. 3-ft wall fence
c. Volada
d. Bushes
d. Concha
25. Also called the blood stream of a city.
30. What is the maximum distance of hedges and
a. Infrastructure shrubs away from a building to still be effective?
b. Transportation a. not more than 2 meters
c. Urban Planning b. not more than 3 meters
d. Human Settlement c. not more than 4 meters
26. An efficient & rapid transport system for d. not more than 5 meters
automobiles to circulate across urban to urban areas
31. The Architect-author of the much-acclaimed book,
a. Highway “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.”
b. Streets a. Richard Neutra
c. Freeway b. Norman Foster
d. Main roads c. Robert Venturi
27. Where should be the location of tree foliage in d. Philip Johnson
order to promote air motion into openings?
32. Which of the following megacities has the most
a. above the openings efficient public transportation, which accounts for
almost 80% of all journey. While the other megacities
b. below the openings
are struggling with heavy traffic.
c. before the openings
a. Seoul
d. after the openings
b. Manila
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d. Beijing 38. A School of design established in Germany called

"Bauhaus" was founded by?
33. The First Skyscraper in the Philippines which is
only 4 storey high. a. Peter Brehens
a. Ambassador Hotel b. Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
b. GSIS Building c. Le Corbusier
c. Manila Hotel d. Walter Gropius
d. Dusit Hotel 39.
34. Referring to the last question, who was the
architect of the said skyscraper?
a. Leandro Locsin
b. Froilan Hong
c. Fernando Ocampo
d. Gabriel Formoso
35. First Hotel in Asia and First to use elevator.
a. Hotel de Oriente
b. Manila Hotel
St. Pierre Church, Firminy was designed by Le
c. Dusit Hotel Corbusier is an example of this type of transformation
d. Dusit Hotel a. Dimensional transformation
36. Referring to the last question, who was the b. Subtractive transformation
architect of its renovation? c. Additive transformation
a. Francisco Maniosa d. None
40.
b. Leandro Locsin
c. William Parsons
d. Yolanda Reyes
37. He was a recipient of National Artist award in
Architecture for his belief that there is such a thing as
Philippine Architecture, adopting architecture relative
of Philippine tradition and culture.
a. Juan Nakpil
b. Juan Arellano
What type of additive transformation occurred in
c. Juan Manosa
Habbitat 67, Montereal?
d. Juan Locsin a. Grid Form
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c. Cluster Form Fom the illustration, which defines "space within a

d. Centralized Form space"?
41. a. A
b. B
c. C
d. D
45. From the illustration, which defines "space linked
by a common space"?
a. A
b. B
c. C
d. D
46.
What type of form transformation in the figure
shown above?
a. Dimensional transformation
b. Subtractive transformation
c. Additive transformation
d. None
42. Referring to the last question, the building is
called?
a. Tokyo tower
b. Nakagin tower
City of Arts and Sciences design by Santiago
c. Cube tower
Calatrava and Felix Candela. An entertainment-based
d. Kurukawa Tower cultural and architectural complex in the city of
43. Which of the following is an example of Art Valencia, Spain. It is the most important modern
deco? tourist destination in the city of Valencia. What space
a. Ideal Theater by Pablo Antonio organization or articulation did Santiago Calatrava
and Felix Candela emphasized?
b. Manila City Hall by Antonio Toledo
c. Manila Post Office by Juan Arellano a. Repetition
d. SM megamall by Jose Sindiong b. Balance
c. Rhythm
d. Scale
47. The balanced distribution and arrangement of
equivalent forms and spaces on opposite sides of a
dividing line or plane or about a center axis?
a. Axis
b. Symmetry
c. Hierarchy
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48. A 20th century problem emanating from rapid 53. A variable of urban decoration where the
urbanization of areas surrounding a city environment is to have an understandable simple
a. Squatting pattern of signs and clues.
b. Urban sprawl a. Harmony
c. Pollution b. Unity
d. traffic
c. Balance
49. What civilization who had the following: - no
need for defensive walls due to its geographical d. Rhythm
location. - no zoning, no defined blocks for housing.
- dependence on Nile river - fascinated with after 54. It is one of the most influential books in
life. architecture history. It contains the author’s design
celebrating the purity and simplicity of classical
a. Roman Civilization architecture.
b. Egyptian Civilization a. 10 books of Architecture
c. Greek Civilization b. 8 books of Architecture
d. Aegean Civilization c. 4 books of Architecture
50. A geographic area which residents conveniently d. 2 books of Architecture
share the common services and facilities needed in
the vicinity of their dwellings. 55. Which of the following is a bahay kubo adaptation
of passive cooling?
a. Neighborhood
a. Use of Fans
b. Organization
b. The living platform is elevated on stilts
c. Street
c. Banguerahan is always oriented at the south
d. Land
d. all the above
51. Primary development of any community.
56. The state or position of being placed close
a. Urban pattern together or side by side to permit comparison or
b. Master Plan contrast

c. Building Codes a. Hierarchy

d. Site development b. Juxtaposition

52. “Laws of the indies” town is also known in Spanish c. Complexity

as? d. Opposition
a. Pueblo 57. A phenomenon of light and visual perception that
b. Mission may be described in terms of an individual’s
perception of hue, saturation and tonal value.
c. Poblacion
a. Shape
d. Presido
b. Color
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d. Tones b. Sustainable Architecture

58. The size or proportion of a building or space, or c. Art Nouveau
an article of furniture, relative to the structural or
functional dimensions of the human body d. Organic Architecture

a. Scale 63 Which of the following is a Pritzker Architecture

Prize Laureate?
b. Module
a. Luis Barragan
c. Human Scale
b. Kisho Kurukawa
d. Modulor
c. Tony Kettle
59. Written by the Roman architect and dedicated to
his patron, the Emperor Ceasar Augustus as a guide d. Bjarke Ingles
for building projects. 64. Mies van der Rohe first envisioned the all-glass
a. De Re Aedificatoria Libri Decem skyscraper in 1920. A 38 storey of black steel and
glass. A structure that could not be built that time.
b. Tutte L’ Opere D’ Architettura Et Prospetiva
a. Lakeshore drive apartment
c. De Architectura
b. Mile high tower
d. Le Architectura
c. S.R Crown Hall
60. Which of the following is not a Pritzker
Architecture Prize Laureate? d. Seagram building

a. Alejandro Aravena 65. This known architect is also a part of this said
building. He designed the interior of The Four
b. Joseph Stirling Seasons and Brasserie restaurants.
c. Shigeru Ban a. Luis Khan
d. Louis Khan b. Le Corbusier
61. The Articulation of the importance or significance c. Walter Gropius
of a form or space by its size, or placement relative to
the other forms and spaces of the organization. d. Philip Johnson

a. Sequence 66. A Collection of forms grouped together by

proximity or the sharing of a common visual trait.
b. Hierarchy
a. Centralized
c. Datum
b. Clustered
d. Transformation
c. Radial
62. A philosophy of architecture that emerge in early
20th century, asserting that a building should have a d. Grid
structure and plan that fulfills its functional 67. Which spatial organization that has a central
requirements, harmonize with its natural space from which linear organizations of space
environmental, and form an intellectually lucid, extend in a radial manner.
integrated whole.
a. Centralized
a. Beaux-Arts

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b. Clustered a. Human Development

c. Radial b. Transportation System
d. Grid c. Physical Environment
68. He pioneered the profession landscape d. Government Policies
architecture in the Philippines that’s why he was
73. This is a delimited space that a person or a group
known for being the Father of Philippine Landscape
of persons uses and defends as an exclusive
Architecture. preserve.
a. Idelfonso P. Santos a. Territory
d. Felino Palafox b. Ownership
c. Jose Ma Zaragoza c. Human Settlement
d. Francisco Manosa d. Defensible Space
69. A 40 hectare land housing program by the 74. Which of the following lot type is not ideal or
government with the objective of diverting part of least desirable for a public school?
Manila’s population to new satellite communities.
a. Inside lot
a. Bliss
b. Corner through lot
b. Philam Life homes
b. corner lot
c. Philippine Homesite and Housing Corporation
d. through lot
d. Philippine Socialized housing program
75 Which of the following site location is the most
70. Stack effect or Chimney effect means? desirable for a boutique hotel?
a. Hot air or gas tends to rise a. within 2km radius from a hospital
b. Air flows tends to stay
b. accessible from the airport
c. Cold air or gas tends to rise
c. within the CBD
d. Air flows through a path of least resistance
d. beside a casino establishment
71. Pronounced by King Philip which Influenced the
Spanish Town Planning. All new towns must have a 76. The spirit of the place is referred to as
central plaza surrounded by important buildings __________.
with portales or arcades, and from which the principal a. Genius loci
streets, laid out in a grid pattern, shall begin.
b. Local Soul
a. The Law of the Indians
c. Landscape Elements
b. The Laws of the Spaniards
d. Urban Landscape
c. The Laws of the Indies
77. City shape that develops its from transformation
d. The Laws of the Plaza spines or natural valleys.
72. Which is not a factor that influence a settlement a. sheet
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b. radiocentric b. Bioclimatic Chart

c. branch c. Climatic Chart
d. linear d. Solar Chart
78. What is the most practical street layout? 83. A Latticework panels that framed the translucent
capiz shells used to completely shut windows at night
a. Curvilinear or during a storm.
b. Grid a. Concha
c. Meandering b. Coquina
d. Circumferential c. Calado
79. A Greek city is composed of the following except d. Volada
for:
84. It indicates data on circulation system within the
a. Town
area. These includes bridges, roads, airports and
b. Acropolis navigable railways, ports, harbors, water bodies.

c. Temple a. General land use map

d. Agora b. Sewage disposal map
80. It is one of Michael Angelo’s finest works seen c.Topographic map
at a distance as a whole composition. It is notable
d. Transportation map
by its Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurellus as a
centerpiece. 85. What colors will harmonize and contrast (Split
Complimentary) Yellow?
a. Athens
a. Red-violet and Blue-violet
b. Rome
b. Red-orange and Yellow-orange
c. Adelphi Terrace
c. Yellow-green and Blue-green
d. Campidoglio
d. Blue-green and Blue-violet
81. A building design approach that focuses on heat
gain control and heat dissipation in a building in order 86. This color will aid Red to stand-out or will dilute its
to improve the indoor Thermal comfort with low or no intensity.
energy consumption.
a. Blue
a. Green design
b. Green
b. Tropical Design
c. Yellow
c. Passive cooling
d. orange
d. Active cooling
87. It was the first to give the explanation of
82. A tool use to identify the passive cooling strategy distribution of social groups within urban areas.
appropriate for the building site.
a. Concentric Zone Theory
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b. Sector Theory b. Garden City

c. Multiple Nuclei Theory c. Image of the City
d. Inverse Concentric zone Theory d. CBD
88. It considers the dependency of people in 93. Architects of Centre Pompidou
automobiles as residents are not concentrated in a
single CBD rather with manufacturing also and other a. Richard Meier and Norman Foster
industries. b. Zaha Hadid and Renzo Piano
a. Concentric Zone Theory c. Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano
b. Sector Theory d. I.M Pei and Bjarke Ingles
c. Multiple Nuclei Theory 94. He was one of the founders of Art Nouveau in
d. Inverse Concentric zone Theory 1890s.

89. First Garden City is located at a. Felix Candela

a. Manhattan, New York b. Victor Horta

b. Hamburg, Germany c. Adolf Loos

c. Bonifacio Global City, Taguig d. Antoni Gaudi

d. Letchworth, United Kingdom 95. Historically inspired by some of the First man-
made shelter, the term usually used to refer to the
90. A merging of two or more metropolis with a construction of roofs using a membrane held in
population of 10 million or more, a 20th century place on steel cables. Frei Otto first demonstrated this
phenomenon. in German Pavilion, Expo ’67. Their main
characteristics are the way in which they work under
a. Highly Urbanized City stress tensile, their ease of pre-fabrication, their ability
to cover large spans, and their malleability.
b. Threshold of Population
a. Thin-shell construction
c. Town
b. Tensile structure
d. Megacity
c. Pre-stressed concrete
91. The process by which large numbers of people
become permanently concentrated in relatively small d. Post-tensioning
areas, forming cities.
96. It is the “First Prairie House” designed by FLW.
a. Urbanization
a. Robbie House
b. Megacity
b. Kaufmann house
c. Urban sprawl
c. Winslow house
d. CBD
d. Wright House
92. This movement believed that such beautification
could promote a harmonious social order that would 97. They worked under Peter Behrens except for,
increase the quality of life. a. Frank Lloyd Wright
a. City Beautiful Movement

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b. Le Corbusier c. Quiapo Church

c. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe d. San Miguel Building
d. Walter Gropius 103. The first phase of the circulation system during
which we are prepared to see, experience and use
98. His dictum was, “Architecture is a concern for the building.
design as a Gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art.”
a. Entrance
a. Alvar Aalto
b. Spatial Organization
b. Bruno Paul
c. Approach
c. Albert Speer
d. Building form
d. Otto Wagner
104. A widely used spatial organization.
99. His dictum was, “Architects must have a razor-
sharp sense of individuality” and he coined the term a. Centralized
“Biorealism”, a belief in the inherent and inseparable
relationship between nature and man. b. Linear

a. Albert Speer c. Radial

b. Alvar Aalto d. Grid

c. Frank Furness 105. Building served as façade to form an enclosure

urban space.
d. Richard Neutra
a. Fortress
100. He holds the distinction of being the first
b. Acropolis
registered architect of the Philippines.
c. Agora
a. Tomas Mapua
d. Intramuros
b. Sto. Tomas
106. In the ancient times, when a town reaches its
c. Carlos Barretto
maximum size, a “new town” is built and it is called.
d. Felipe Arroyo
a. Paleopolis
101. He was the architect of the building in the 100
b. Neopolois
peso bill.
c. Acropolis
a. Fernando Ocampo
d. Polis
b. Gabriel Formoso
107. Polis means?
c. William Coscolluela
a. City
a. Antonio Sindiong
b. Town
102. Which of the following is the work of Ar. Jose
Maria Zaragosa? c. People
a. Meralco Building d. Park
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108. He is considered as the first architect in the other. These are man, nature, shells, networks and
history of urbanistic to make use of the advantages of society.
the modern method.
a. Ekistics
a. Hippodamus
b. Proxemics
b. Indigo Jones
c. Chandigarh
c. Leon Batista Alberti
d. Broadacre
d. Biagio Rossetti
114. It affects where people can go, and where they
109. The father of American City Planning. Plans for cannot
Chicago, San Francisco, etc.
a. Legibility
a. Clarence A. Perry
b. Variety
b. G.R. Taylor
c. Permeability
c. Frederic Olmstead
d. Robustness
d. Daniel Burnham
115. In designing a corridor, what should be the ideal
110. The architect who fused ideas of modern width for a three person walking at the same time?
architecture and city form “Une Ville Contemporaine”
a. 1200mm
a. Richard Neutra
b. 1500mm
b. Le Corbusier
c. 1650mm
c. Charles Adam
d. 1800mm
d. Buckminster Fuller
116. What is the comfortable reach for vertical
111. He made the master plan of Brasilia, the Capital storage or overhead cabinets?
of brazil
a. 1.10m-1.30m
a. Richard Neutra
b. 1.40m-1.50m
b. Frank Lloyd Wright
c. 1.50m–1.70m
c. Lucio Costa
d. 1.60m-1.80m
d. Oscar Niemeyer
117. A frame of latticework used as a screen or as a
112. A combined horizontal and vertical shade is
support for climbing plants.
called
a. Louvers a. Trellis

b. Egg-create sunshade b. Pergola

c. Egg and dart sunshade c. Arbor

d. Dynamic Shutters d. Gazebo

113. A human settlement is made up of five elements, 118. A map that shows the spatial allocation of built-
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institutional, parks and open spaces, industrial and following soil investigations should the architect
others. request?
a. general land use map A, Percolation test
b. urban land use map b. Evaporation test
c. base map c. Test for soil alkalinity
d. topographic map d. Test for soil density
119. Parking lots should be in an area where slope is 124. It refers to the population per unit land area.
below ____ otherwise grading is to be done.
a. Density
a. 3%
b. Population
b. 5%
c. Demographics
c. 7%
d. Urban population
d. 10%
125. Major event which led to the establishment of
120. Acknowledged as the oldest city in the history of planning as a profession
settlements.
a. World war II
a. Babylon
b. Industrial Revolution
b. Eridu
c. Colonization
c. Constantinople
d. Population growth
d. Mohenjo-Daro
126. Which is required in building at a terraced site
121. Zoning ordinances are used by municipalities as location:
a means of controlling all of the following except.
a. use of retaining walls
a. Project cost
b. Be elevated on raised pad
b. Density of development
c. provide an earth berm
c. Flood impact
d. Use explosion
d. Land use
127. Open land Wildlife needs to be avoided in
122. Major and minor routes of circulation which selecting a site for this project.
people use to move about.
a. Skyscrapers
a. Pathways
b. Airports
b. Edges
c. Malls
c. Districts
d. Hospitals
d. Landmarks
128. The “Cradle of Civilization”
123. In a residential development composed of large
lots, on-site sewage disposal for each lot is permitted a. Persia
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c. Egypt c. Francisco Manosa

d. Mycenaean civilization d. Leandro Locsin
129. The first noted urban planner who introduced the 134. It was one of the Father of modern picture books
grid system and the agora. of architecture best known legacies to the
architectural world.
a. Arthemus
a. La Rotonda
b. Hippodamus
b. Sagrada Familia
c. Miletus
c. Villa Sovoye
d. Spartacus
d. Falling Water
130. These are characteristics of Urban Sprawl
except for: 135. The president of the United States who is also
an architect with a style of Neo-Classicism. Notable
a. Single-use development with his work Monticello in Virgina
b. Job sprawl a. George Washington
c. Mixed-use development b. George W. Bush
d. Low-density development c. Thomas Jefferson
131. What type of urban road which are meant for d. Theodore Roosevelt
through traffic usually on a continuous route. It also
expected to carry large volumes of traffic. 136. Architect of Jones Bridge in Manila
a. Arterial roads a. Juan Arellano
b. Expressways b. Juan Nakpil
c. Service roads c. Pablo Antonio
d. Collector roads d. Daniel Burnham
132. He developed the neighborhood principle based 137. Which of the following is not a work of Antoni
on the natural catchment area of community facilities Gaudi?
such as primary schools and local shops.
a. Sagrada Familia
a. Clarence Perry
b. Parc Guell
b. Frederick Olmstead
d. Casa Milla
c. Clarence stein
d. Casa Balto
d. Arturo Soria Y Mata
138. The architect of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
133. The architect known for his use of concrete,
floating volume and simplistic design in various a. Ieoh Ming Pei
projects. He was proclaimed a National Artist of the b. Norman Foster
Philippines for Architecture in 1990.
c. Bjarke Ingles
a. Juan Nakpil
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139. The architect of Millennium bridge in London 144. “Make no little plans; They have no magic to stir
men’s blood”
a. I.M Pei
a. Daniel Burnham
b. Norman Foster
b. Louis Khan
c. Bjarke Ingles
c. Buckminster Fuller
d. Daniel Libeskind
d. Robert Venturi
140. The architect of contemporary arts center which
made this architect a Pritzker Architecture in laureate 145. “More is More.”
in 2004.
a. Daniel Burnham
a. Thom Mayne
b. Mies Van der Rohe
b. Glenn Murcutt
c. Buckminster Fuller
c. Richard Rogers
d. Robert Venturi
d. Zaha Hadid
146. Cube within a cube
141. He is considered as one of the most influential
Filipino architect of the 20th century for pioneering the a. Le Corbusier
art of Philippine neo-vernacular architecture. He was b. Mies Van der Rohe
recognized as National Artist of the Philippines for
Architecture in 2018. c. Walter Gropius d. Robert Venturi
a. Juan Nakpil 147. “Art and Architecture, the new unity.”
b. Frederico Illustre a. Le Corbusier
c. Francisco Manosa b. Mies Van der Rohe
d. Leandro Locsin c. Walter Gropius
142. What is the Architectural style of The dancing d. Robert Venturi
house by Frank Ghery?
148. “The city must be subject to growth, decay and
a. Deconstructivism renewal.”
b. Constructivism a. Tadao Ando
c. Post modernism b. Mies Van der Rohe
d. Modernism c. I.M Pei
143. What is the Architectural style of Folk Arts d. Kenzo Tange
Theatre?
149. “I believe that the way people live can be
a. Deconstructivism directed a little by Architecture.”
b. Brutalism a. Tadao Ando
c. Neovernacular b. Rem Khoolas
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d. Kenzo Tange a. Cooling quality

150. “Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of b. helps one to concentrate
the major drivers and has been from the very
beginning.” c. stimulates hunger

a. Tadao Ando d. demands attention

b. Rem Khoolas 156. In the Philippines Habagat refers to?

c. I.M Pei a. Winter monsoon

d. Kenzo Tange b. Northeast Monsoon

151. Is a variety in the use of gradation from black to c. Summer Monsoon

white. d. Tropical Monsoon
a. Texture 157. Villa Sovoye is Le Corbusier’s finest example of
b. Color this Architectural principle

c. Hue a. Five points of Architecture

d. Tone b. Organic Architecture

152. What is the psychological effect of Purple? c. High-Tech and sustainable Architecture

a. sedative & soothing d. Five books of Architecture

b. rage or passion 158. Louis Khan is known for this sytle

c. stimulating cheering a. Monumental and Grandeur

d. cooling quality b. Classic-Modern

153. What is the psychological effect of Blue related c. Deconstructivism

in architecture? d. International Style
a. Cooling quality 159. Robbie House is best known for this principle.
b. Peace & tranquil a. Symmetrical Balance
c. stimulates hunger b. Rhythm
d. demands attention c. Asymmetrical Balance
154. When the designer applies stunning Yellow as d. Progression
an accent wall in a room what does it pertains?
160. It is the relation between the parts of a
a. Cooling quality composition and a certain abstract unit of
b. helps one to concentrate measurement.

c. stimulates hunger a. Scale

d. demands attention b. Proportion

155. When the designer applies blue in a room what c. Ken

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d. Size 166. It is a park in cities and other incorporated

places to offer recreation and green space to
161. It is a sense of equilibrium.
residents of, and visitors to, the municipality.
a. Balance
a. urban park
b. Contrast
b. playground
c. Unity
c. quadrangle
d. Character
d. plaza
162. The remaining space in a lot after deducting the
required minimum open spaces. 167. An Arboricultural term literally, a cone-bearer. It
reproduce by forming a cone rather than a flower as a
a. Open area container for their seeds.
b. Buildable area a. Broadleaf
c. Parks b. conifer
d. Unpaved area c. Bonsai
163. It is the side of a building that faces the d. climber
prevailing, or trade, winds. It also depends on the
wind force that is alongside the height of a structure 168. Shedding foliage at the end of the growing
or building. season; used especially in reference to trees.
a. Leeward
a. Doxiadis
b. Windward
b. conifer
c. Both sides
c. deciduous
d. none of the above
d. climber
164. Designed to regulate land use, to ban industry &
169. A line of demarcation that creates visual interest
commerce from residential areas & to separate
in a landscape by separating one segment from
different types of living units
another. Also known as border.
a. zoning
a. lining
b. grouping
b. trimming
c. clustering
c. edging
d. none of the above
d. floating
165. The study of the dynamic relationship between a
170. The forcing of the viewer’s perspective to a
community of organism & its habitat.
central or focal point. The use of symmetry or balance
a. geology creates a more intense viewers perspective, while
asymmetrical designs soften or even avoid viewer’s
b. ecology perspective.
c. biology a. forming
d. botany b. centralization

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c. landmark c. 3 meters
d. focalization d. 2 meters
171. The inanimate elements of landscaping, 176. Which of the following is not a Hardscape
especially any masonry work. For instance, stone element?
walls, brick patios and tile paths
a. gazeebo
a. Softscape
b. balcony
b. Hardscape
c. riprap
d. Streetscape
d. berm
d. Landscape
177. It is important to determine the existing
172. A 6m high tree near a 15m high building is
availability of utilities on site in terms of adequacy and
considered as a _________.
efficiency. This includes the following except for:
a. dwarf tree
a. Drainage
b. Medium tree
b. Electric power supply
c. Large tree
c. water supply
d. Tall tree
d. transmission
173. It was designed by Andre Le Notre, an 800
178. it is an imaginary line that join points of equal
hectares garden which is considered as one of the elevation on the surface of the land above or below a
largest garden ever made in France. The garden is an reference surface such as the mean sea level.
example of a French formal garden.
a. Topography
a. Hanging garden
b. Map
b. Gardens of Versailles
c. Contours
c. Secret garden
d. Slope
d. Gardens of France
179. What type of street comes from a collector street
174. The animate, horticultural elements of to an individual property and provides access to an
landscaping. abutting property?

a. Softscape a. cul-de-sac

b. Hardscape b. minor street

d. Streetscape c. marginal access street

d. Landscape d. arterial street

175. Shrubs or bushes grows up to a height of less 180. What would you recommend to use as a traffic
than _________. separator below arcades?

a. 5 meters a. bollards

b. 4 meters b. fountain

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c. planting strips 186. Which is not and Urbanization Problem

d. fence a. Emerging of large malls in a city
181. What type of transformation of form do you b. Increasing number of poverty and slum creation
observe in the door tracery of Reims Cathedral
c. Increasing number of schools
a. Dimensional Transformation
d. conversion of agricultural lot to subdivision
b. Subtractive transformation development
c. additive transformation 187. It is the point reference considered to be external
top the observer physical elements that may vary
d. Multitude transformation widely in scale
182. This is the path of a moving point. a. Path
a. Point b. Landmark
b. Line c. Edges
d. Plane d. Nodes
c. Volume
183. Human perception is one of the factors in
designing of building, which of the followings are
mostly affected through human perception.
a. Demography and geography
b. Anthropology and sociology
b. Geography and anthropology
d. demography and Sociology 188.

184. Who is the founding father of the Philosophy of As shown in the image, it may be identified as?
Deconstructivism? a. Point
a. William Becket b. Line
b. Frank Ghery c. Plane
c. Jacques Derrida d. Volume
d. None of the above 189. Which of the following facilities is more
185. It organizes a random pattern of elements important to consider to aide a General hopsital.
through its regularity, continuity, and constant a. School
presence. b. Fire Station
a. Hierarchy c. Hospital
d. Catholic Church
b. Axis
190. It is to determine pleasing dimensional
c. Transformation relationships between the width of a building and its
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the columns supporting the structure. The final result c. Fortress

is a building that feels entirely in proportion.
d. Forum
a. Silver Ratio
196 The internal organization or "anatomy" of a city,
b. Golden Ratio including the pattern of land uses, ethnic and income
c. Pythagorean theorem groups, infrastructure, housing types, industrial types,
d. Vitruvian Triad and so on.
191. Alvar Aalto’s Seinäjoki Public Library is an a. Urban Pattern
example of this ordering principle
b. Community
a. Hierarchy
c. Urban Morphology
b. Axis
d. Urban development
c. Transformation
197. A habitable room for 1 family with facilities for
d. Datum
living, sleeping, cooking & eating.
192. Adrea Paladio’s Villa Capra is an example of this
a. Low-end dwelling
type of Symmetry.
b. High-end dwelling
a. Bilateral
c. residential
b. Radial
d. Dwelling unit
c. Mirror
198. What is the architectural style of Vigan City,
d. Formal
Ilocos Sur
193. The Falling Water was designed by?
a. Philippine Architecture
a. Frank Ghery
b. Ilocano Architecture
b. Frank Lloyd Wright
c. Phil-Hispanic Architecture
c. Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
d. Vernacular Architecture
d. Zaha Hadid
199. A planar element which can be manipulated well
194. Inventor of Geodesic Dome which was based on to establish a podium for a building form.
the principle of Spaced Frame.
a. Base plane
a. Frei Otto
b. ground plane
b. Kenzo Tange
d. Floor plane
c. Toyo Ito
d. Wall plane
d. Buckminster Fuller
200. “A harmonious design requires that nothing be
195. The rough equivalent of the present tenement added or taken away.”
cities that existed in ancient Rome
a. Frank Lloyd Wright
a. Insula
b. Louis Sullivan
b. Agora
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