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21: Bauhaus and De Stijl
Larson
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Architecture
Undergraduate 1
05/06/2012

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________ was the architect invited by Gropius to give the keynote speech at the Bauhaus Week of 1923
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Name two abstract painters who played a major role in the aesthetic change in the Bauhaus curriculum
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What typeface/font was used in Bauhaus publications after the arrival of Moholy-Nagy?
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Waht two avant-garde artists were credited by Larson as being somewhat responsible for the change in its teaching ideology/pedogogy from Expressionism to Abstract formalism?
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Van Doesburg's term for the new way he composed space as a continuous, but non-linear flow of space was ________
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Towards a Plastic Architecture was written by ________
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What was teh difference in how Wright approached the design of his interiors and how van Doesburg designed his interiors?
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Neo-Plasticism is a term associated with what movement?
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The De Stijl movement received much of its initial impetus from the non-objective paintings by ________
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Describe the spatial sequence implied in the paintings by van Doesburg
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Name a De Stijl painter
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The Red-Blue Chair was designed by ________
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The Schroder House was designed by ________
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Describe the changes made in the first-year design at the Bauhaus made when Maholy-Nagy replaced Itten as the teacher
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What does Larson credit for the eventual appearance of columns in the Barcelona pavilion?
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What was the major design difference between Mies' Concrete and Brick Country House projects?
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The German term used by German designers after WWI who relied solely on realism and functionalism to describe their work was ________
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The objective of the Vorkurs (foundation course) at the Bauhaus was _______
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The German term that describes the spirit of Mies' Concrete Office Building of 1923 was ________
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What architectural theoretician was responsible for the shift in design theory away from Expressionism at the Weimar Bauhaus?
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Sketch the entry sequence for the German State Pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona Fair
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Sketch the elevation of the Barcelona chair
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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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Define Neue Sachlichkeit
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Describe Mies' spatial order in his designs of 1923-1929
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The Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg Monument was designed by ________
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Marcel Breuer is best known for the design of the ________ chair while working at the Bauhaus
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The "Wassily" chair was designed by _______
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List three important design ideas Mies employed in the Barcelona Pavilion
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The Dutch architect known for his sachlich housing projects was _________
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________ was the leading theoretician of the De Stijl movement
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The architect in overall charge of planning the 1927 Weissenhof Siedlung was ________
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________ Was the major building type that brought the international Style to the forefront of German design in the 1920s
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The "Barcelona Chair" was designed by ________
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When Walter Gropius assembled his faculty for the Bauhaus School, he drew many of them from which field of expertise?
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________ was the director of the trade/design school in Weimar when its name was changed to the Staatliches Bauhaus
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