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HTC 22
Corbusier
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Architecture
Undergraduate 2
08/31/2009

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1. Describe the difference between Mies' and Corbusier's column grids?

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Mies kept rigid grid, Le Corbusier manipulated grid with walls

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7. What was the elevational design advantage of the Dom-ino system?  Was this the first realization of this advantage?

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The walls do not carry any weight; windows go right around the house, free elevation, cantilever columns so no vertical element
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9. Why did Le Corbusier use ramps in the interiors of his early houses?

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unbroken planes
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14. What was different between Perret's concrete frames and Le Corbusier's concrete frames?

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Perret used old system, Le Corbusier used new system
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7. What was the elevational design advantage of the Dom-ino system? Was this the first realization of this advantage?

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freed the wall from any structural function, thus it could be located anywhere
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3-4 List two influences on Corbusier's interest in the two story living space:

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a. Parisian artist's studio

b. Parisian cafe

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24. "A machine for living in" is a concept associated with the work of _____________

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Le Corbusier
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37. What three major architectural figures worked in Peter Behrens' office?

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a. Le Corbusier

b. Gropius

c. Mies

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33-5 List Corbusier's Five Points of a New Architecture

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a. Free plan

b. Free facade

c. Ribbon window

d. Pilotes

e. Roof garden

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2. Le Corbusier first used the all-glass wall in what project?

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Maison Citrohan
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33-2 Le Corbusier used this term to describe the spatial sequence in his buildings:

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architectural promenade
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1-4 Le Corbusier worked for what two major European figures in pre-WWI Europe which had a marked influence on his career:

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a. Behrens

b. Perret

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11. The golden section as an ordering system was best represented in the work of what architect we studied this period?

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Le Corbusier
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8-2 __________ was the term Le Corbusier and Ozenfant chose for their painting style, which was a conscious rejection of much of what Cubism represented.

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Purist
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21-2 Le Corbusier's ideal of the "pure man-made object set in dramatic contrast to nature" was probably something he picked up in what country?

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Greece
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2. Towards an Architecture was written by ___________

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Le Corbusier
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47. The early work of Le Corbusier is known for its sensitive environmental response: True or False

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False
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4-2 Le Corbusier made an abrupt swerve away from white purity of form when he designed which building?

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Colonnade Presac
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33. Le Corbusier's "Five Points" for a new architecture as evident in the "Citrohan" projects and the Villa Savoye, basically derived from _______________________

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his Dom-ino system of concrete plates and columns
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39. Sketch the car approach to the ground floor of the Villa Savoye.

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1 Draw Le Corbusier's four compositions and name the building which each is an example.

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