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Art History
Undergraduate 2
06/05/2011

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Name 2 abstract painters who played a major role in the aesthetic change in the Bauhaus curriculum:
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de Klerk & Kramer
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What was the difference in how Wright approached the design of his interiors and how Van Doesburg designed his interiors?
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Wright: arranged continuous, free flow
Doesburg: lacked understanding of space
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Name a De Stijl Painter
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Mondrian
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What architectural theoretician was responsible for the shift in deisgn theory away from Expressionism at the Weimar Bauhaus?
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Nagy
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The event most responsible for the philosophical switch at the Bauhaus from Expressionism to "The New Architecture" was
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the arrival of Nagy
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Describe Mies' spatial order in his designs of 1923-1929:
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spiral right hand turn & assymetry
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List three important design ideas Mies employed in the Barcelona Pavilion
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reflection, asymmetry, free standing wall
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The first building designed by Corbusier that incorporated pilotis was
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House & Apartment
Term
The original purpose of the Dom-ino system was to
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produce quick housing
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The building designed by Aalto that best represents his interpretation of Corbu's five points is the
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Turun- Sanomat
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Aalto's first International Style building was the
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Library in Viipuri
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Why did Asplund incorporate spaces with skewed (non-parallel) walls in his early houses?
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forced perspective
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Describe Aalto's use of colors on the exterior of the Paimio Sanitarium:
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when he cuts into the white box, it bleeds color
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Where did Le Corbusier get the idea for linear housing and cities?
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Russian Constructivists
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Frank Lloyd Wright's design of the Johnson Wax Building can be best described as his interpretation of what style?
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Art Moderne
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The major design innovation in the Usonian houses that influenced the design of post-WW II suburban tract homes was
Definition
time-motion kitchen
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Corb's first all glass building
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Centrosoyuz Headquarters
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Corb's utopian city
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Ville Radieuse with pilotis & open courts
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List two important differences in the American city in 1960 between the actual International Style designs and the prediction of Bel Geddes in the 1939 GM Pavilion:
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smaller roads
& pulled back from the street
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List two aspects of the design of Rockelfeller Center that contribute to its success as an urban space:
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pedestrian level is sunken, it continued the street
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List one exterior detail that allowed the Empire State Building to be constructed so quickly
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flush mounted glazing
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List three differences between Art Deco buildings and Art Moderne buildings
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ortho vs. curved
warm vs. cool
vertical vs. horizontal
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"Why not try nothing" was the rationale of Hood for the design of what building?
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NY Daily News
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Two reasons that explain why Mies cantilevered his roofs/floors beyond the corner columns
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o to avoid the corner
o further continuity
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Another early post-WW II house that made use of steel, but differed from the essays of Mies and Johnson in that it utilized standardized parts and was composed in a sensitive irregularity which reflected a refined sense of the ordinary was designed by
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Eames & Saarinen
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