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| Sketch the typical elevational/massing scheme for an Art Deco Skyscraper |
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| Steps, Verticals, Bookends |
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| The traditional atrium in the 19th century skyscrapers was quickly replaced by? |
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| List three influences on the Art Deco skyscrapers that came from Europe: |
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a. paris world fair 1925
b. German Expressionist
c. Scandinavian towers |
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| The second-place winner of the Chicago Tribune competition was: |
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| What Worlds Fair(date and city) played a pivotal role in the development of Art Deco in the US? |
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| What Building project finally forced New York to initiate proceedings toward a zoning code that would limit the size of skyscrapers? |
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| Equitable Life Insurance Building, 1915 |
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| The Conte Canyon renderings of the design potential of the 1916 New York Zoning Code were drawn by? |
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| THe Autobiography of an Idea was written by |
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| The first Neo-Gothic skyscraper to break the stranglehold of Neo-Classicism in NYC was? |
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| List two precedents for the ornament on the Art Deco skyscraper: |
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a. Chicago School
b. Hand crafted materials |
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| List two precedents for the massing of the Art Deco Skyscraper: |
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a. Zoning Codes
b. recessed spandrel and unbroken verticals |
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| ________ designed the Nebraska State Capitol. |
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| _________ designed the singer building, the first U.S building to break the 600' mark. |
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| THe style of the Woolworth building in NYC designed by Cass Gilbert can be best described as |
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| THe building that forced NYC to enact a zoning code in 1916 was designed by? |
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| Graham, Equitable Life Insurance |
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| Ernest Flagg's design of the Singer Building in New York can best be described as? |
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| The Chicago Tribune competition was won by? |
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| Raymond Hood and John Mead Howells |
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| The European city that was the inspiration for Wiley Corbet's and Hugh Faris's multi-level city studies was? |
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| Art Deco was based on rejecting contemporary technology and using the vocabulary of "traditional" architecture. T or F? |
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| Wright would later state that he was influenced by ___________ in the design of his Californian "knit-block" houses. |
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| Pre-Columbian architecture, specifically the Mayans |
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| Wright designed two highrise projects in the 1920s. They are? |
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a. Prince Tower
b. National Life Insurance |
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| _________ designed the First Church, Christ the Scientist in Berkeley. |
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| Describe how Wright achieved a two-story living area in the apartments in his proposed tower for St. Marks in the Bowrie: |
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| Floors are cantilevered off main core |
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| __________ is noted as the first American architect to completely eschew the use of all ornament in his designs in favor of an asymmetrical massing of rectilinear forms with smooth, white-washed walls with frameless windows. |
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| ________ is best known for his eclecticism, being able to synthesize a diverse collection of stylistic elements with the technology of the day, including such off the shelf materials as industrial sash and sheet asbestos panels. |
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| The term that best describes the style of buildings designed by Maybeck is? |
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| THe type of California house that influenced the work of Greene and Greene was known as the? |
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| Describe "knit-block" construction: |
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| modular construction employing a system of patterned blocks |
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| One of the major differences between the houses designed by Wright and those designed by Greene and Greene was the Wright used ______ (type of) roofs while Greene and Greene used ______ roofs. |
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| "There is something very restful and satisfying to my mind in the simple cube house with creamy walls, sheer and plain, rising boldly into the sky, unrelieved by cornices or overhang of roof" is a quote by _____ which describes his inner feelings of his residential designs. |
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| List three precautions Wright designed into the Imperial Hotel in anticipation of seismic action: |
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a. friction piles (not pad footing)
b. walls are tappered
c. flexible as possible so it could break in parts |
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| The architect recognized as the master of the early California "bungalow" in which sensuously -detailed wood construction and deep overhanging balconies were used was: |
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| _______ is the name of Wrights Compound in Spring Greene. |
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