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| Where did Le Corbusier get the idea for linear housing and cities? |
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| Name 2 differences between Corbu's design for the city for 2 mil and his radiant city |
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city 4 3 mil-kept together and major block
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| FLW's design for the Johnson Wax building can be best described as his interpretation of what style? |
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| the major design innovation in the Usonian houses that influenced the design of post WWII suburban tract homes was |
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| List 2 major details the Wright used int eh Usonian house to control construction costs |
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standardized units
self finished interior materials |
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| List 2 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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| roads were dominatn vs pedestrians |
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| List 2 aspects of the design of Rockefeller Center that contribute to its success as an urban space |
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| It incorporates streets /urban circulation and the corners and edges of the lot are held by buildings |
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| the roof terraces int eh Rockefeller Center were said to be influence by what ancient precedent |
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| hanging gardens of Babylon |
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| List 1 exterior detail that allowed the Empire State Building to be constructed so quickly |
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| windows were brought flush so no detailing of joint |
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| what determined the locations of the setbacks in the RCA building |
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| _________ was the American architect whose urban idea of the tower in the park paralleled Le Corbusier's proposal for the city for 3 million |
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| Norman Bel Geddes' trademark motif was the |
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| The designer in charge of the initial planning of Rockefeller center was |
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| "far from being a handicap, the discipline of being obliged to make a project stand on its own financial feet and to submit its details and materials to a constant critical analysis, leads to honesty and integrity of design. Under this stimulation the cobwebs of whimsey taste fashion and vanity are brushed aside and the architect finds himself face to face with the essential elements that go to make areal architecture and real beauty." This quote is by |
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| Name 3 major industiral designers who were active in the 1930s |
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| Bel Geddes, Fuller, Loewy |
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| The apparent precedent for the massing of the Empire State building was: |
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| The one word that best described the forms used to style are moderne designs was |
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| _______ 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 _____ for the design of what building? |
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| Hood; NY Daily News Building |
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| Dymaxion was the term coined by_____ which meant |
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| Fuller; Dynamic Maximum Tension |
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| Briefly describe how Hood developed the massing of the RCA building: |
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| 2 stories of the lot extruded and the vertical in knitted into the tower |
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| List 3 differences between Art Deco and Art Moderne buildings |
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AD-verticals AM-Horizontals
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