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| Name the four types of Construction that Semper used to order The Four Elements of Architecture: |
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Stone masonry
ceramics
textiles
carpentry |
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| What past style did Semper Champion as being capable of further development? |
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| What was the precedent for the Brandenburg Gate? |
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| The first theoretician to speculate about the woven qualities of the primitive curtain wall was? |
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| The German artist usually credited as having coined the term "gesamtkunstwerk" is? |
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| THe Wasmuth Volumes documented the early work of? |
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| The term, raumplan, was devised by _______ to describe his interiors which incorporated interpretations of spaces. |
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| The Steiner House was designed by? |
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an individual artists ability to generate form
("imposing one's artistic will" upon a design problem) |
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| The German term for an individual "imposing one's artistic will" upon a design problem is? |
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| The German architectural writer who mythologized the English Arts and Crafts house at the turn of the century was? |
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| Gropius was responsible for the design of what building at the 1914 Cologne Exhibit? |
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| Name two leading designers that were placed in charge of a major German School of design prior to WWI. |
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| Loos' major criticism of the Deutscher Werkbund was that it? |
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attempted to artistically misrepresent the reality of the objects they were trying to improve
(to much totality, trying to standardize everything) |
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| The Deutscher Werkbund chose _______ to design the model factory for its 1914 Cologne Exhibit. The final design was influenced by what Wright building? |
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| Gropius and Meyer, Mason City Bank |
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| Peter Behrens was hired by _______ to redesign its corporate image. |
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| The Author of "Ornament and Crime" was? |
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| One of the three founders of the Deutscher Werkbund was? |
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| Gropius was responsible for what building at the 1914 Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition? |
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| Das Englische Haus was written by? |
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| What was Loo's opinion of Gesamtkunstwerk? |
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attacked that mentality for trying to over control (design) every aspect of life
(too much control over design) |
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| What was the primary difference in intention between a Kahn-designed factory and a Behrens-designed AEG factory? |
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| Behrens used it as art - Kahn used it just as a building |
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| The ___________ was founded to encourage the improvement of machine production in Germany. |
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| Behrens was greatly influenced by which philosopher? |
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| Herman Muthesius used which type of building as the model of Germany to emulate in order to improve its building design? |
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| How can one view the design of the Fagus factory as an inverse of the AEG Turbine factory? |
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Fagus emphasizes the corner, pulls pilaster in
AEG emphasizes corner, pulls pilaster out |
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| What was Loo's criticism of Behren's designs? |
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| He was designing too much |
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| Adolf Loo's major written treatise on architecture was? |
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| The Fagus Works was designed by? |
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| The German architectural theorist who noted the inferior quality of German manufactured goods at the 1851 Worlds Fair was? |
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