This thing called Architecture

Who is the author of this building?

• Lina Bo Bardi

• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

• Frank Lloyd Wirght

• Norman Foster

Answer explanation

Called "Casa de Vidrio" (Glass House) was Lina Bo Bardi and Pietro Maria Bardi's house in Sao Paolo.

When was this building built?

• 200 AC

• 200 BC

• 400 BC

• 300 AC

Answer explanation

The Parthenon of Athens is a masterpiece of illusion, marble and technic.

Built by two great architects, Iktinos and Callicrates, it was partially destroyed in 1687 (it was a powder magazine at the time) when an Italian Admiral, Francesco Morosini, decided that it was a good idea to free against it some shell of mortar.

Sorry guys.

What is the name of this capital?

• Corinthian

• Ionic

• Doric

• Tuscanic

Answer explanation

Do you remember the orders of Architecture? Doric, Ionic and Corinthian?

Bad news people, they did not existed as we imagine them, but in Oxford we have the tower of the 5 (five!!!) orders.

Four of them are fake.

When was Rome founded?

• 100 BC

• 300 BC

• 100 AC

• 700 BC

Answer explanation

Precisely on the 21st of April 753 BC.

The story's two protagonists, Romulus and Remus, fought on who had to build the city. The question escalated quickly, Remus was killed by Romulus.

Not your typical Easter Lunch.

In the Middle Ages, it was believed that the earth was flat.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Of course not. Middle-ages people were smart! And also before:

‘We all agree on the earth’s shape. For surely we always speak of the round ball of the Earth’ (Pliny, Natural History, II.64).

And the Venerable Bede:

‘The reason why the same days are of unequal length is the roundness of the Earth, for not without reason is it called ‘‘the orb of the world’’ on the pages of Holy Scripture and of ordinary literature. It is, in fact, a sphere set in the middle of the whole universe. It is not merely circular like a shield [or] spread out like a wheel, but resembles more a ball, being equally round in all directions ...’ (Bede, The Reckoning of Time, translated by Faith Wallis (Liverpool University Press, 1999), p. 91).

Does the City of London correspond to?

• The Greek Town

• The Roman Town

• The Anglo-Saxon Town

• The Norman Town

Answer explanation

The Roman Cty "Londinium" was the capital of the Roman Britain, replacing Camulodunum (Colchester).

What does "The Monument" celebrate?

• The Battle of Waterloo

• The End of Anglo-Boer War

• The Victory of Trafalgar

• The Great Fire of 1666

Answer explanation

"The monuments and memorials with which large cities are adorned are also mnemic symbols [...] The Monument’. It was designed as a memorial of the Great Fire, which broke out in that neighbourhood in 1666.

Or again what should we think of a Londoner who shed tears before the Monument that commemorates the reduction of his beloved metropolis to ashes although it has long since risen again in far greater brilliance?"

Sigmun Freud.

Quite brutal.

How many years did Adolf Hitler rule Germany?

• 24

• 16

• 31

• 11

Answer explanation

My washing machine lasted more.

Why doesn't Coventry Cathedral have a roof?

• Earthquake

• Financial Issue

• Bombing

• Technical Problems

Answer explanation

The city was so devstated by bombing that a new verb was defined after.

To coventrate:

From Coventry +‎ -ate,

(transitive) To devastate by heavy bombing.

(in the photo:Hamburg).

What is a "Serliana"?

• A type of fountain

• A type of garden

• A type of window

• A type of bridge

Answer explanation

"Tripartite window, door, or blind architectural feature consisting of a central opening with a semicircular arch over it springing from two entablatures each supported by two columns or pilasters flanking narrower flat-topped openings on either side.

It got its name as it was published in Serlio's L'Architettura (1537–75), but probably originated with Bramante."