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| A switch from the ribbon window to the use of floor to ceiling glazing marked the work in the 1930s of who? |
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| Centrosoyuz Headquarters in Moscow was designed by who? |
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| Where did Corbu get the idea for linear housing and cities? |
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| Contact with Russian contructivists |
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| Two differences between Corbu's design for the city or 3 million and his Radiant City |
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3 million: Capitalist spaced
Radiant city: socially spaced |
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| FLW's design of the Johnson Wax Building can be best described as his interpretation of what style? |
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| Major design innovation in the usonian houses that influenced the design of post WW II suburban tract homes was what? |
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| kit of parts and modulation |
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| 2 major details that FLW used in the Usonian house to control construction costs |
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1. self finished interior materials
2. used 3 types of windows |
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| Usonian house was designed by who? |
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| Broadacre City was designed by who? |
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| Client for FLW's Falling Water |
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| Two important differences in American city in 1960 between the actual Intl Style designs and the prediction of bel Geddes in the 1939 GM Pavilion |
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1. streamline
2. holds a street edge |
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| 2 aspects of the design of the Rockefeller that contribute to its success as an urban space |
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1. continued street
2. pedestrian level is sunken |
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| The roof terraces in Rockefeller were said to be influenced by what ancient precedent? |
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| Hanging gardens of Babylon |
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| Trademark image of the 1939 World's Fair |
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| One exterior detail that allowed the Empire State Building to be constructed so quickly |
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| What determined the locations of the setbacks in the RCA building? |
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| Who was the American architect whose urban idea of the tower in the park paralleled Corbu's proposal for the city for 3 million? |
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| Norman Bel Geddes' trademark motif was the what? |
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| Designer in charge of the initial planning of the Rockefeller was who? |
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| "Far from being a handicap... taste, fashion, and vanity are brushed aside... real architecture and real beauty." was a quote by who? |
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| 3 major industrial designers who were active in the 1930s |
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1. Hood
2. Bel Geddes
3. Fuller |
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| Apparent precedent for the massing of the Empire State Building was what? |
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| Designer of the Dymaxion house |
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| One word the best described the froms used to style Art Moderne designs was |
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| What was the term used to describe the method of wrapping objects with sheet metal in an attempt to give them a futurist image? |
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| "Why not try nothing?" was the rationale of who for what building? |
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| Hood for Rockefeller Center |
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| Dymaxion was a term by who? What does it mean> |
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Fuller
Dynamic, Maximum, Ion |
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| Describe how Hood developed the RCA building massing |
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| 3 differences between Art Deco and Art Moderne buildings |
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1. AD: vertical AM: horizontal
2. AD: symmetrical AM: asymmetrical
3. AD: geometric AM: curvy lines |
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| Art Moderne was symbolized by the use of what? |
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