List of top General Knowledge Questions asked in National Aptitude test in Architecture

The image created below is by repeating a logo of an organization. Identify the organization.

Identify the institution for which this logo stands for

The logos depicted below belong to one category. Identify

Identify the building from the drawing shown below.

Image shows a common ornamented bracket element in temples. What is it usually called?

Hampi is well known as

In which Indian city can you see this monument?

Which bucket will fill first?

Assuming all the five sentences are correct, guess the code to unlock the Code

Identify the script to the regional language it belongs to?
(Marks will be awarded if all answers are correct)

Options:
a. 1	p. A
b. 2	q. B
c. 3	r. C
d. 4	s. D
e. 5	t. E

Identify the medium through which the following portraits have been done.
Marks will be awarded only if all answers are correct.

Options:
a. 1	p. A
b. 2	q. B
c. 3	r. C
d. 4	s. D
e. 5	t. E

 

 

Identify the architecture of the different places as given below.
Marks will be awarded only if all answers are correct.

Options:
a. 1	p. A
b. 2	q. B
c. 3	r. C
d. 4	s. D
e. 5	t. E

Paragraph :
There is modicum of truth in the assertion that "a working knowledge of ancient history is necessary to the intelligent interpretation of current events". But the sage who uttered these words of wisdom might well have added something on the benefits of studying, particularly, the famous battles of history for the lessons they contain for those of us who lead or aspire to leadership. Such a study will reveal certain qualities and attributes which enabled the winners to win and certain deficiencies which caused the losers to lose. And the student will see that the same patterns recur consistently, again and again, throughout centuries.

Paragraph :
The strength of the electronics industry in Japan is the Japanese ability to organize production and marketing rather than their achievement in original research. The British are generally recognized as a far more inventive collection of individuals, but never seem able to exploit what they invent.
There are many examples, from the TSR Z hovercraft, high speed train and Sinclair scooter to the Triumph, BSA and Norton Motorcycle which all prove this sad rule. The Japanese were able to exploit their strengths in marketing and development many years ago and their success was at first, either not understood in the West or was dismissed as something which could have been produced only at their low price. They were sold because they were cheap copies of other people's ideas, churned out of a workhouse which was dedicated to hard grind above all else.

Paragraph :
Apart from the elaborate myths connecting it to Krishna, the tulsi plant has several medicinal properties. To protect and revere this plant with so many medicinal properties, it was designated as sacred, a fitting tribute to its role in providing invaluable healthcare. The worship of plants is an ancient phenomenon in India. It is probably the oldest form of worship. The association of a single tree with a sacred sthala or sthana is reflected in the chaityavriksha and sthalavriksha or literature and society.
When people turned to food production, the Mother Goddess or the Earth Mother became the chief deity. Fertility, creation, and the world of plants and animals became her blessings to her devotees. The worship of the tree was the adoration of her creative abilities, symbolising fertility so essential for the survival of the early people. Spirits-good or bad-were believed to reside in trees. If the trees were worshipped, then the resident spirits were pleased. As sacred forests were replaced by agriculture, a single tree was left and was designated as 'sacred'. The earliest temples were little more than images placed under trees. Later, the tree and the image were enclosed by a fence made of wood, followed even by stone. Numerous references are made in literature to trees as abodes of gods.

Carefully read the passage given below and provide the answers to the 4 questions based on the passage.
'Many sociologists have argued that there is a functional relationship between education and economic system. They point to the fact that mass formal education began in industrial society. They note that the expansion of the economies of industrial societies is accompanied by a corresponding expansion of their educational systems. They explain this correspondence in terms of the needs of industry for skilled and trained manpower, needs which are met by the educational system. Thus, the provision of mass elementary education in Britain in 1870 can be seen as a response to the needs of industry for a literate and numerate workforce at a time when industrial processes were becoming more complex and the demand for technical skills was steadily growing.'

Carefully read the passage given below and provide the answers to the 4 questions based on the passage.
'The casual horrors and real disasters are thrown at the newspaper reader without discrimination. In the contemporary arrangements for circulating the news, an important element, evaluation is always weak and often wanting entirely. There is no point anywhere along the line where someone put his foot down for certain and says, "This is important and that does not amount to row of beans; deserves no one's attention, and should travel the wires no farther". The junk is dressed up to look as meaningful as the real news.'

Carefully read the passage given below and provide the answers to the 4 questions based on the passage.
The assault on the purity of the environment is the price that we pay for many of the benefits of modern technology. For the advantage of automotive transportation we pay a price in smog- induced diseases; for the powerful effects of new insecticides, we pay a price in dwindling wildlife and disturbances in the relation of living things and their surroundings; for nuclear power, we risk the biological hazards of radiation. By increasing agricultural production with fertilizers, we worsen water population. The highly developed nations of the world are not only the immediate beneficiaries of the good that technology can do; they are also the first victims of environmental diseases that technology breeds. In the past, the environmental effects which accompanied technological progress were restricted to a small and relatively short time. The new hazards are neither local nor brief. Air pollution covers vast areas of continents and radioactive fallout from the nuclear explosion is worldwide. Radioactive pollutants now found on the earth surface will be for generations, and in the case of Carbon-14, for thousands of years.

Carefully read the passage given below and provide the answers to the 4 questions based on the passage.
Until the end of his first year at school, Vedant retained many of the pleasures and pursuits he had brought with him from home, and he kept an old interest in butterflies and fossils. His grandmot her had presented him with a fine bird's eggs cabinet, but he couId never bring himself to risk in climbing trees. Once or twice he dissected dead birds from sheer determination to overcome his horror of the operation. Probably it was his envy of those physically unlike himself that brought on a phase during which he drew massive athletes with thick necks and square shoulders. Again he was pitying himself for what he could never be

Carefully read the passage given below and provide the answers to the 4 questions based on the passage.
'Pratik a professional man who had worked in an office for many years had a fearful dream. In it, he found himself in a land where small slug- like animals with slimy tentacles lived on people's bodies. T he people tolerated the loathsome creatures because after many years they grew into elephants which then became th e nation's system of transport, carrying everyone wherever he wanted to go. Pratik suddenly realised that he himself w as covered with these things and he woke up screaming.
In a vivid sequence of pictures this dream dramatized for Pratik what he had never been able to put in to words; he saw himself as letting society feed on his body in his early year s so that it would carry him when he retired. He later threw off the "security bug" and took up freelance work.'

The Pushkaranis in Hampi are the sacred water tanks that are attached to the temples. Choose any four most appropriate design principles incorporated in the form and design of the pushkaranis.
(Marks will be awarded if all answers are correct)

Gandhi Memorial museum at Sabarmati Ashram was designed by the renowned architect Charles Correa. Choose any four most appropriate design principles incorporated in the design.
(Marks will be awarded if all answers are correct)

The following sketch is the plan of the Fatehpur Sikri a master piece in Mughal architecture. From the given Plan identify four most important structures that form enclosures to this complex. (Marks will be awarded if all answers are correct)

"Futura" is a font designed by Paul Renner a German typeface designer in 1927. Identify the four most important principles adapted to compose the poster for Futura font. (Marks will be given only if all answers are correct.)

The sketch given below is the plan of the Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur designed by Architect Charles Correa. The plan form of this complex is an analog of the plan of the city of Jaipur.
From the given plan sketch below identify the three most important spatial planning and visual principles adopted.