Shared Flashcard Set

Details

ARC History part a
exam 3
63
Architecture
Undergraduate 2
04/24/2011

Additional Architecture Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Eiffel Tower
  • Gustave Eiffel
  • 1889
  • celebration of French economic and industrial prowess
  • marketing of Eiffel's company
  • commemoration of the centennial of the French Revolution

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Palais des Beaux-Arts
  • Jules Formige
  • metal frame and colored brick and glazed terra cotta

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Self-Portrait in the crowd at the Moulin Rouge
  • Toulouse-Lautree
  • 1892

Term
Art Nouveau
Definition

  • 1890's in Europe
  • resisted industrial production and celebrated handcraft
  • Spread of Art Nouveau due to: advances in wrought iron, interest in Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, rise of upper middle class of new indsutrials, improvements in printing

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Posters of Jane Avril
  • henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • 1899
  • influence of japanese art
  • model form vs flat outlined shapes

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Maude Adams as Joan of Arc
  • Alphonse Mucha
  • 1909

Term
[image]
Definition

 

  • La Danse
  • Alphonse Mucha
  • 1909

 

Term
[image]
Definition

 

  • Stadpark Gate
  • Friedrich Ohmann
  • 1903

 

Term
Art Nouveau decorative arts
Definition

  • informed much of the formal principles of building
  • flowing plant forms= animate surface
  • blurred line between ornament and form (opposite of the classical tradition)

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Hotel Tassel
  • Victor Horta
  • Brussels
  • 1893

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Hotel Tassel plans

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Hotel Tassel Stairs

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Hotel Van Eetvelde
  • Victor Horta 
  • Brussels
  • 1897

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Hotel Van Eetvelde plan

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Hotel Van Eetvelde stair hall

Term
[image]
Definition

  • House of the People
  • Victor Horta
  • Brussels
  • 1895

Term
[image]
Definition

  • House of the People meeting hall

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Castel Beranger
  • Hector Guimard
  • paris
  • followed Viollet-le-Duc
  • Studied Horta's houses

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Castel Beranger gate

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Hotel Guimard
  • Hector Guimard
  • 1897
  • oval rooms- triangular site

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Hotel Guimard dining room

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Paris Metro
  • Hector Guimard
  • exposed metal

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Postal Savings Bank
  • Otto Wagner
  • Austria
  • 1904
  • transforms classical precedents w/ allusions to industrial production
  • metal and glass for main banking hall
  • basilican cross section

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Entrance to Postal Savings bank

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Postal Savings Bank plan

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Postal Savings Bank
  • glass vault protected by a second glass roof above it
  • concept- hollow core tower

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Postal Savings Bank
  • industrially inspired vocabulary- light fixtures, structural columsn, air intakes, stair railings, wall finishes

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Karlsplatz Underground Station
  • Otto Wagner
  • 1898
  • prefabricated sections for the cavity walls=2 cm marble, 5cm stucco

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Palais Stoclet
  • Josef hoffmann
  • 1905
  • Belgium
  • composition expressed in massing

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Palais Stoclet Plan

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Palais Stoclet Salon

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Palais Stoclet 
  • Gustav Klimt
  • Fulfillment
  • 1905

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Trinity Church
  • H.H. Richardson
  • 1873
  • Boston

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Trinity Church

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Trinity Church Plan

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Trinity Church Interior

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Sever Hall
  • Harvard
  • 1878

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Sever Hall

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Austin Hall
  • Harvard
  • 1881

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Austin Hall

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Ames memorial Library
  • MA
  • 1877

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Ames Memorial Library

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Crane memorial Library
  • MA
  • 1880

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Crane memorial library

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Crane Memorial Library

Term
[image]
Definition

 

  • Stoughton House
  • Cambridge MA
  • 1882

 

Term
[image]
Definition

  • Allegheny County Buildings
  • Pittsburgh
  • 1883
  • Richardson

Term
[image]
Definition
Allegheny County Building
Term
[image]
Definition
Allegheny County Building
Term
[image]
Definition
Allegheny County Building
Term
[image]
Definition

Allegheny County Building

 

Term
[image]
Definition
Allegheny County Building
Term
[image]
Definition

  • Cincinnati City Hall
  • Samuel Hannaford
  • 1893
  • polychromatic masonry of trinity church+tower of Allegheny

Term
Reconstruction of Chicago
Definition

  • center of transportation by Lake Michigan: by land, railroad and sea
  • Great fire- need for new office space- forced new way of thinking about commercial architecture

Term
[image]
Definition

  • JJ Glessner House
  • Chicago
  • 1885
  • Richardson

Term
[image]
Definition

Glessner House

 

Term
[image]
Definition
Glessner
Term
[image]
Definition
Glessner
Term
[image]
Definition

Glessner

 

Term
The Growth of Chicago commercial enterprise
Definition

  • needed more offices on expensive land-taller buildings
  • elevator=transportation for tall buildings

Term
Chicago weight and height issues
Definition

  • Chicago is on marshland
  • floated the buildings using caissons
  • started using metal as structure to lighten the load

Term
[image]
Definition
The Home Insurance Company
Chicago
William LeBaron Jenney
1883
evolution of iron and steel framing
Term
[image]
Definition

  • Marshall Field Wholesale Store
  • 1885
  • Chicago
  • Richardson

Supporting users have an ad free experience!