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The elevational treatment used in the entrance facade of Grundtvig church is best described as______________
Where did this form originate in Denmark? |
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the stepped gable
It came from the vernacular of churches and houses, which generally used the step to resolve gabled roofs. |
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| What device is used in the Stockholm City Hall to link it with the adjacent lake? |
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| The building mass is lifted off the site on arcades so that you can always see the water through the building on the ground level. |
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| List two precednts for Saarinen's final design of the main entry in the Helsinki Railroad Station: |
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The Vienna Secession (Darmstadt specifically)
Louis Sullivan (Golden Doors specifically)
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| The Kallio Church was designed by _____________________________ |
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Describe the elevational treatment Saarinen typically used in the towers of his Finnish buildings:
_____________________________________________ |
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| He stepped the towers back as they got higher. |
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The building typically credited with the start of the National Romantic movement in Scandinavia is
_____________________________ |
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| The Tampere Cathedral was designed by ____________ |
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"The arrangement of a vertical force against a contrasting and balancing horizontal volume" best
describes the compositional theory employed by ___________ |
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The movement in Scandinavia at the turn of the century that was a genuine attempt to interpret the
indigenous tradition of each of the respective countries is referred to as _____________ |
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| List two reasons why Saarinen preferred to incorporate a vertical element in the massing of his buildings: |
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Contrast to the Horizontal Base
Anchors into the Landscape |
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The style that evolved in Finland to express and preserve the indigenous culture in the face of increasing
pressure by the czar to 'russify' Finland was _______________ |
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| Saarinen's favorite interior color was ____________ |
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| The typical Saarinen formal composition incorporated a ______________ element to_________________ |
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| tower, anchor to the landscape |
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| ________________________ is the name of residential compound of Gesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen. |
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