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Title: HTC 18

Description: Gerry Larson

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Created: 08/04/2009 10:41:20

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In what three shapes did Cezanne say that nature reveals itself?
Definition
cone, cylinder, sphere
Term
The Futurist Manifesto was written by
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Filippo Marinetti
Term
List two factors which occurred prior to 1860 that influenced the evolution towards abstraction in modern painting
Definition
1) the invention of the camera/photography 2) discovery of Japanese prints
Term
The primary objective of Cubist painting was _____
Definition
Implying movement in an attempt to destroy the single-view painting
Term
What three shapes did Cubist painters employ in their paintings?
Definition
circle, square, triangle
Term
Name a Cubist painter
Definition
Pablo Picasso Marcel Duchamp
Term
________ is the name given to a group of radical Italian designers who were prominent just prior to the start of WW1
Definition
The Futurists
Term
The Futurist movement was centered in
Definition
Italy
Term
What was one of the compositional goals of Cubist paintings?
Definition
Capture multiple frames and view angles in 2D
Term
The architect of the Centennial Hall in Breslau was _____
Definition
Max Berg
Term
Describe Hugo Haring's design methodology as manifested in the Gut Garkau cowshed _______
Definition

Architecture should not be 'imposed' as a preconceived idea but rather 'discovered' in an exploration of the place and conditions that the building is intended to serve.

by giving each of the cows a view of the bull, the building expressed the purpose of the building, not the architect's ideas.

Term
_________ designed the Weimar government's new research tower for Einstein.
Definition
Erich Mendelsohn
Term
________ designed the first Goetheanum
Definition
Rudolf Steiner
Term
List three buildings at the Werkbund's 1914 Cologne exhibition that represented the three main movements in German architecture prior to the start of WWI
Definition
glass pavilion model theater model factory
Term
The architect of the Luckenwalde Hat Factory Dyeworks was
Definition
Erich Mendelsohn
Term
Did Mies extrude the lotlines of the site in both of his glass skyscraper proposals? Why?
Definition
No. Crystalized floor plan to reflect light in street.
Term
The designer of the German Glass Industry Pavilion at the 1914 Deutscher Werkbund exhibition was ______
Definition
Bruno Taut
Term
Give an example of a different German Expressionist architect who designed in each of the following materials: glass, brick, dynamism [concrete]
Definition
Glass - Taut, Mies Brick - Hoeger, Weimar Dynamism [Concrete] - Mendelsohn, Berg
Term
Why was the cathedral viewed as the ideal historic building type for the German Expressionists?
Definition
a lot of light colored glass communal
Term
______ was the major building project that focused the energies of German expressionists immediately following the end of WWI
Definition
Grosses Shauspielhaus
Term
The author of "Glass Architecture" was _____
Definition
Paul Scheerbart
Term
The Cathedral of Socialism was the ultimate goal of what movement?
Definition
German Expressionist
Term
The Grosses Schauspielhaus in Berlin was designed by _____
Definition
Hans Poelzig
Term
What was the 'crystal chain'?
Definition
Dialogue between like-minded architects about what the architecture of the future should be.  Initiated by Bruno Taut.
Term
The first Expressionist glass skyscraper was designed by _____
Definition
Mies Van der Rohe
Term
Concerning the Spiritual in Art was written by _____
Definition
Wassily Kandinsky
Term
Anthroposophy was founded by _____
Definition
Rudolf Steiner



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