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Styles of Architecture

1) The International Style of architecture was based on …

Romanesque ideals
Bauhaus ideals*
Classical ideals

2) The elements that make up ­­­_________ architecture are the arch, columns, and the dome.

Renaissance
Classical*
Gothic

3) Which architect’s work is described as being organic and curvilinear?

Douglas J. Cardinal*
A.M. Jeffers
Donald Bittorf

4) Who was the American-born architect who designed Alberta’s Legislature Building?

A.M. Jeffers*
Hugh McMillan
Philippe Delesalle

5) What type of architecture was created by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, in 1919?

Neolithic
Expressionist
Bauhaus*

6) What happened at Leduc, Alberta, in 1947 to create a long period of sustained development and construction?

Oil was discovered.*
An architecture college was built.
Alien architecture blueprints were discovered.

7) Postmodernism opposed the __________ and __________ elements of modernism.

functional, formalized*
strange, bizarre
organic, curvilinear

8) The first settlers used ____ and ___ to build their first homes.

Willows, hides
Logs, sod*
Concrete, steel

9) The new _______ stucco style of the 1920s and 1930s appeared in Alberta from the 1930s to 1940s.

Moderne*
Ukrainian
Baroque

10) The Italian style of architecture developed in the 1400s and 1500s is called …

Gothic
Jacobean
Renaissance*

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