Architecture Styles

What this quiz asks

• Which feature, an arched prop that braces a high wall from the outside, is typical of Gothic cathedrals?
• Classical columns come in several orders. Which one has scroll-shaped capitals?
• Romanesque churches, with their thick walls and small windows, are built with which kind of arch?
• Antoni Gaudí was the leading figure of which architectural movement in Catalonia?
• The Bauhaus school of art and design was founded in 1919 by which architect?
• Le Corbusier, a giant of modern architecture, was born in Switzerland.
• Which of these towers is a showpiece of the Manueline style?
• Which Baroque artist designed the vast curved colonnade that embraces St Peter's Square in Rome?
• Select ALL of these cathedrals that are mainly Gothic.
• Did Frank Lloyd Wright design the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao?
• Portugal's most famous Manueline window, carved with ropes, coral and roots, belongs to the Convent of Christ in which town?
• Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye stands on slender columns that lift it off the ground. What are they called?
• Select ALL of these architects who are famous for Art Nouveau buildings.
• Art Nouveau favoured straight lines and strict geometric shapes.
• Which Modernist architect made the motto 'less is more' famous?
• The Barbican Estate, a landmark of Brutalist architecture, is in which city?
• Oscar Niemeyer designed the main public buildings of which planned capital, inaugurated in 1960?
• Building work on Cologne Cathedral began in 1248. In which year was it finally completed?
• Order these styles by when they first appeared, earliest first.
• Which Portuguese architect won the Pritzker Prize in 1992?