ARCHITECTURE HISTORY
This ancient civilization built the Parthenon in Athens around 447 BCE.
Ancient Greece?
This French-Swiss architect wrote Towards a New Architecture and designed the Villa Savoye.
Le Corbusier?
“Every architecture critique eventually turns into a discussion about ___.”
what your concept
studio life mean
Sleeping under your desk
Living on coffee and deadlines
Forgetting what sunlight looks like
living on coffee and deadlines
how many floor does the foundations building has
8 floor
Pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses are hallmarks of this medieval style.
Gothic architecture?
This deconstructivist architect is famous for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
Who is Frank Gehry?
“CAD actually stands for ___.”
Computer-Aided Design
Crying At Deadlines
computer-Aided design
“Every architecture student’s best friend is ___.”
The X-Acto knife
rhino
coffee
rhino
true or false
is cooper union the foundation building the oldest in the area of Astoria
false
This French palace is famous for its opulence, gardens, and association with Louis XIV.
Versailles / Palace of Versailles?
This Iraqi-British architect, known as the “Queen of the Curve,” designed the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku.
Zaha Hadid?
“Concrete is just ___ with commitment issues.”
liquid stone
“Studio all-nighters are basically ___.”
Free trial runs of hell
Architecture students’ rite of passage
rite of pasage
How many buildings does the cooper union own
4
This Parisian palace, originally a medieval fortress, was transformed into a royal residence during the Renaissance and is now one of the largest museums in the world
Louvre Palace
This Japanese architect designed the 2019 Olympic Stadium in Tokyo and is also known for blending nature with urban design.
Kengo Kuma?
“The Golden Ratio can be found in ___.”
nature
“Every architecture student has at least more than 2 cut from ___.”
An X-Acto knife
when did our founding father ( peter cooper) die
1883
This style of architecture, popular in 15th–16th century Italy, revived classical Greek and Roman elements like columns, domes, and symmetry, and emphasized humanism.
Renaissance architecture?
This architect is famous for the phrase “a house is a machine for living in” and his “Dom-ino” structural system.
Le Corbusier?
“Brutalism isn’t called brutal because it’s ugly, it comes from the French word ___.”
Béton brut (raw concrete)
“Crit day always starts with at least one student ___.”
Rushing to print at 7 AM
peter cooper, the founder of cooper union, was born on
a.1790 b.1791
c.1898 d.1750
b.1791