TAPP Refresher

Auguste perret

"Beton Brut" is architectural concrete left unfinished or roughly finished after pouring and left on the concrete as it hardens. Who pioneered the use of Beton Brut?

Pilotis

The replacement of supporting walls by a grid of reinforced concrete columns that bears the load of the structure is the basis of new aesthetic.

Free plan

The absence of supporting walls means that the house is unrestrained in its internal usage.

Sir norman foster

Who was the architect that made the chek lap kok airport.?

Eduardo catalano

It used a Hyperbolic Parabolic roof that is self- supporting with only two points touching the ground and two points touching the ground and two corners soaring high into the air.

HSBC Building

A building designed by Norman Foster that has the floating beam concept.

Old new synagogue

Built in 1270, it is currently the world 's oldest "active" synagogue.

Michael graves

Dictum of famous architect. " I believe that people make natural association with forms, color and the composition of elements while decoration and detailing help communicate with a buildings purpose"

Mañosa brothers

Who is the architect of the San Miguel building in ortigas center?

Marcel breuer

A Bauhaus architect who migrates to the united states of america

Deconstructivism

A controversial style defined as the ideas of fragmentation , non-rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and dislocate some of the elements of architecture . The finished visual appearance of building is characterized by unpredictability and a controlled chaos

Eclectism

It is a nineteenth and twentieth century architectural style that incorporates a mixture of elements from previous historical styles to create something that is new and original.

Cubism

An architectural style centered on the dissolution and reconstruction of individual characteristics of three- dimensional forms, using simplified geometric shapes.

Jacobean

This style is the combination of the Tudor and Elizabethan style.

York minster cathedral

Will you find the Five sister window?

Tromfe o'eil

A kind of drawing/painting wherein object are rendered in fine detail to emphasize the illusion of tactile and spatial qualities.

Faux painting

Reflicating materials such as marble and wood with paint, but has subsequently come to encompass many other decorative finishes for walls and furniture.

Stile liberty

Art nouvea in italy

Sezession

Art nouvea in austria

Jugen stijl

Art nouvea in germany

Modernismo

Art nouvea in spain

Uy chaku

Art nouvea in philippines

Decorate/culvilinear style

What periodic style is characterized by the use of culvilinear tracery in the 14th century?

Confidence and stability

What is the character of the national museum building?

Jacobean

Another name for late renaissance in england.

High renaissance

What do you call the late renaissance in Italy.

Moat

A deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water , that surrounds a castle to provide it with preliminary line of defense.

Bastion

An angular structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of an artillery fortification.

Bartizan

It is an overhanging wall mounted turret projecting from the wall of medieval fortification.

Draw bridge

It is a type of movable bridge used at a castle surrounded by a moat.

Citadel

It is the last line of defense before the keep itself.

Solitary room

It is a room in many English and French medieval manor houses, "private living quarters"

Allure

Also known as a wall-walk, it is the passage behind the parapet of a castle wall

Eclectic

Predominant style of Greek architecture, balloon frame introduction in building construction and use of cast iron as building material.

Cyclopean masonry

It refers to a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture

France

Who gave the statue of liberty to the US

Beaux arts style

Style taught at ecole des beaux arts.

Gothic

13th and 14th century

Baroque

18th and 19th century

Early gothic

12th century

Renaissance

14th to 17th century

Tudor

16th century

Modejar

13th to 16th century

Modern

20th century

Sober and dignified

Romanesque character

Aztec architecture

What is the architecture period which rose in central mexico and destroyed by Spanish conquidors

Persian

Oldest architecture style

Mannerism

A style characterized by horizontal lines and window tracery

Perpendicular

A style characterized by vertical/ parallel lines and window tracery

Simple pediment with dome on top

The early christian period can be characterized with

3-5 aisles with timber roof

It is main feature of the early christian architecture

Mosaic

The main decorative element used in early christian architecture

Space frame

Structural innovation of modern movement

Neoclassical

Derive architecture of classical antiquity

Louis sullivan

Father of skyscrapers.

Taipei 101

the world fastest elevator is currently installed in_____, have a speed of 37.70mph by Toshiba.

Guangzhou CTF financial centre (by kohn pendersen fox)

Hitachi has developed a faster elevator that can travel at 44mph. What building will these elevators be operated in 2016.

Due to the increasing cost of land

Why did Chicago build skyscrapers?

Torogan

Dwelling place of the datu

Maranao

The largest tribe in mindanao

Tausug

These people usually live in a house with 9 Post , 3 post arranged in 3 rows

It can be used for a variety of purpose

The Muslim house has an open plan with few furnitures because....

To maintain the privacy of women from the outside

The Muslim house has few openings

Kankanay

Whose traditional house is the binangiyan?

Bolada

Covered corridor in bahay na bato?

4.2x4.2

Size of ifugao house

Rat protection (halipan)

Disk found at trunks where an ifugao house stands?

Silong

Underneath the bahay na bato

Kamalig

Storage for rice in bahay kubo

Hypaethral court

Open to the sky (roofless)

Formal/ symmetry

What type of symmetry is evident in villa capra

Rectangular center

From the image of villa capra , what is the focal point?

Gopuram

Hindu gateway

Torana

Cambodian gateway

Pailou

Chinese gateway

Torii

Japanese gateway

Pylon

Egyptian gateway

Boudhanath stupa, tibet

The biggest stupa

Cha-shitsu

Japanese architecture (tea ceremony)

Tokonama

Japanese architecture (flower arrangement)

Geomancy

Fengshui is based on?

The dome

Standing 100m away from the building at right, what is the focal point of the building

Noise from equipment

Noise generated at hospitals

Edward Pullman and chauncy harris

Multiple nuclei theory

Homer hoyt

Sector model

Ernes burgess

Concentric

Senusret I

Who erected the obelisk

Gazebo

Roof structure without walls

From arches

How did the dome originate?

Decorative pilaster

In Romanesque architecture, how are walls treated?

2x cd

What is systyle intercolumnation

Systyle - 2d
Eustyle - 2 1/4 d
Pycnostyle - 1 1/2 d
Diastyle - 3 d
Araeostyle - 4d

Intercolumnation

Abbot suger

Father of stained glass

Flamboyant

The third phase of Gothic architecture

Coffers

What do you call the recess found in the dome to make the structure lighter.

Toran

Gateway to the stupa

Vedica

It is a railing meant for the protection of the holy place at the stupa

Medhi

It is an elevated circular path around the stupa used for pradhikshina

Harmika

It is built on the top of the oval shaped stupa

Linear

What is the planning with 12 step process in which all stakeholders are involved in every stage?