A switch from the ribbon window to the

use of floor to ceiling glazing marked the

work in the 1930's of...

Le Corbusier

The Centrosoyuz Headquarters in Moscow

was designed by...

Le Corbusier

Where did Le Corbusier get the idea for linear 

housing and cities?

Name two differences between Le Corbusier's 

design for the City for 3 million and his Radiant City.

a.) Buildings raised on pillars

b.) Looking like a human in plan

FLW's design of the Johnson Wax Building can be best described as his interpretation of what style?

The major design innovation in the Usonian houses that influenced the design of post-WWII suburban tract homes was...

List 2 major details that Wright used in the Usonian house to control construction cost:

The "Usonian" house was designed by:

FLW

Broadacre City was a project envisioned by:

FLW

The client for Wright's Fallingwater house was:

Kaufmann

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.

1.) Glass Box

2.) Building holds street corner

List 2 aspects of the design of Rockefeller Center that contribute to its success as an urban space:

The roof terraces in Rockefeller Center were said to be influenced by what ancient precedent?

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The trademark image of the

1939 World's Fair was the...

Perisphere & Trylon

List one exterior detail that allowed the Empire State Building to be constructed so quickly:

What determined the locations of the

setbacks in the RCA building? 

Elevator Core

____ was the American architect whose urban idea of the tower in the park paralleled Le Corbusier's proposal for the City of 3 Million.

Raymond Hood

Norman Bel Geddes' trademark motif was the...

teardrop

The designer in charge of the initial planning of the Rockefeller Center was...

Hood

Really long quote...

Hood

Name 3 major industrial designers who were active in the 1930's:

1.) Norman Bel Geddes

2.) Bucky Fuller

3.) Raymond Loewy

The apparent precedent for the massing of the 

Empire State Building was:

Carew Tower

The designer of the Dymaxion House was...

Bucky Fuller

The one word that best described the forms 

used to style Art Moderne designs was...

streamline

_____ was the term used to describe the method of wrapping objects with sheet metal in an attempt

to give them a futurist image.

streamlining

"Why not try nothing" was the rationale of ____

for the design of what building?

"Dymaxion" was the term coined by ___ 

which meant _____.

Bucky Fuller

Briefly describe how Hood developed the massing

of the RCA building.

List 3 differences between Art Deco and Art Moderne

buildings:

1.) warm vs. cool

2.) handi-craft vs. machinery

3.) going up vs. going ahead

Art Moderne was symbolized by the

use of the ____.

streamline curve