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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 2 abstract painters who played a major role in the aesthetic change in the Bauhaus curriculum |
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| What type face/font was used in Bauhaus publications after the arrival of Moholy-nagy? |
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| What 2 avant garde artists were credited by larson as being somewhat responsible for the change in it's 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 the difference in how Wright approached the design of his interiors and how Van Doesburg designed his interiors? |
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Wright - continuous flow of spaces
Van Doesburg - didn't understand the meaning of reason and copied Wright's forms |
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| Neo Plasticism is a term associated with what movement? |
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| 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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| geometric abstract composition of free flow and space |
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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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Maholy - favors machines
Itten - expressionist |
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| What does Larson credit for the eventual appearance of columns in the Barcelona Pavillion? |
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| Nietzsche influence reality is planes with juxtaposed lines as columns |
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| What was the major design difference between Mies concrete and brick country house projects? |
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Concrete = 3 separate boxes/spaces put together
Brick = 1 giant continuous space |
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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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| to get everyone on the same level |
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| The german term that describes the spirit of Mies concrete office building of 1923 was ________________ |
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| The Zonnestraal Sanitarium was designed by _____________ |
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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 elevation of the Barcelona chair |
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| The event most responsible for the philisophical switch at the Bauhaus from expressionism to the new architecture was _______________________ |
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| VKhUTEMAS exposition in Berlin |
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| realism and functionalism with no need of art |
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| Describe Mies spatial order in his designs of 1923 - 1929 |
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| assymetry and the defintion of space with the arrangement of freestanding planes within a rectilinear order |
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| 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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| List 3 important design ideas Mies employed in the Barcelona Pavilion |
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1. Created reflections
2. Free flowing continuous space
3. Non axial sliding planes |
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| The dutch architect known for his Sachlich housing projects was ___________ |
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| ______________ was the leading theoritician of the De Stijl movement |
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| The architect in overal 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 1920's |
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| The Barcelona chair was designed by ____________ |
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| The De Stijl theoretician whose lectures at the Bauhaus influenced its switch from Expressionism to Internationalism was __________________ |
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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 Welmar when its name was changed to the Stattilches Bauhaus |
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| One major different element in the work of Wllem Dudok's from that of Wrights? |
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| softer machine edge and more glass |
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| Willem Dudock's building show was a major influence from the work of what American architect? |
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| The Hilversum Townhall was designed by |
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| The Dutch architect responsible for spreading the influence of Wright through Holland was _________ |
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| The father of modern Dutch architecture, who was an early advocate of Wright's work, was _____________ |
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List 2 Wrightian motifs evident in the Hilversum Townhall
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1. Pin Wheel Plan
2. Horizontal Tooled Brick Joints |
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| JJP Oud belonged to the __________ school |
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| What was the major difference between De Klerk and Kramer's exterior design methodologies? |
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De Klerk -additive
Kramer - subtractive |
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| The 2 young Dutch expressionists who worked in the office of Johan Van Der Neij were ____________ |
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| The home of dutch expressionism was _____________ |
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| Which building represented Berlage's revival of the dutch indigenous masonry tradition? |
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| Name the 2 dutch expressionist architects best known for their designs of worker housing in Amsterdam during WWI |
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| What was Berlage's opinion of dutch urban housing? |
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| commited to the dutch tradition and represented the dutch idea of indivduals with unity |
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| The first building designed by Corbusier that incorporated pilotius was ____________ |
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| Describe the difference between Mies and Corbusier's use of column grids in their designs of the 1920's |
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Mies - rigid grid
Corbusier - manipulated grid with walls |
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| The original purpose of the dom-ino system was to _________ |
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| quick housing for the war |
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What was the elevational design advantage of the dom-ino system?
Was this the first realization of this advantage? |
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Free facades, no need to express structure in elevation
Not the first |
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| Why did Corbusier use ramps in the interior of his early houses? |
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| What was different between Perret's and Corbusier's concrete frames? |
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Perret - structual grid
Corbusier - implies a grid |
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| List 2 influences on Corbusier's intrest in the 2 story living space |
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1. Parisian art studio
2. Parisian cafe |
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| A machine for living in is a concepted associated with the work of _____________ |
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| What 3 major architectual figures worked in Peter Behren's office? |
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1. Gropius
2. Mies
3. Corbusier |
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| List Corbusier's 5 points of new architecture |
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1. free plan
2. free facade
3. ribbon window
4. pilotis
5. roof garden |
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| Le Corbusier used this term to describe the spatial sequence of his buildings |
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Le Corbusier worked for what two major European figures in pre WWI Europe which had a marked influence on his career
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| The golden section as an ordering system was best represented in the work of what architect we studied this period? |
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| _________________ was the term Le Corbusier and Ozenfant chose for their painting style which was a concious rejection of much of what cubism represented |
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| Le Corbusier's ideal of the pure man made object set in dramatic contrast to nature was probably something he picked up in what country? |
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| Towards an Architecture was written by ______________ |
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| The early work of Le Corbusier is known for its sensitve enviornmental response, T or F |
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| Le Corbusier's 5 points for new architecture as evident in the citrohan projects in the Villa Savoye basically derived from _______________ |
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| The building designed by Aalto that best represents his interpretation of Corbusier's 5 points is the __________________ |
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| What was the inspiration for Aalto's design of the interior of the Finnish pavilion at the 1939's World's Fair? |
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| The Wave of the Northern Lights |
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| What did Aalto say the reason was for his incorporating a courtyard in many of his projects? |
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| Give the clients something for nothing |
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| List 2 design decisions Aalto made in consideration of the comfort of the patients at the Paimio Sanitarium |
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1. Reduce Glare
2. Radiant Heating
3. Sinks that made no noise |
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| Aalto's first international style building was the _______________ |
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| Aalto's first use of the undulating surface of wood slats was in what building? |
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| The bent wood paimio chair was designed by _________ |
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| What new science apparently had a great influence on Asplund's designs? |
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| Why did Asplund incorporate spaces with skewed non parallel walls in his early houses? |
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| The name of the firm founded by Maire and Harry Gullichsen to market Aalto designed home furnishings is ________________ |
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| Describe the two design criteria used by Aalto to determine the longitudinal section of the meeting hall in the Library in Viipuri |
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1. Accousitcs
2. Wave Form |
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| Describe Aalto's use of colors on the exterior of the Paimio Sanitarium |
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| applied color where subtractive space is |
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| Which space is used by Aalto as the high point or visual anchor of the massing composition in Villa Mairea? |
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| The switch from the ribbon window to the use of floor to ceiling glazing marked the work in the 1930's of _______________ |
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| The centrosoyuz headquarters in moscow was designed by _______________ |
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Name 2 differences between Corbusier's design for the City for 3 million and his Radiant City
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1. raised buildings
2. human like plan |
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| Le Corbusier first used the all glass wall in what project? |
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| Le Corbusier made an aburt swerve away from white purity of form when he designed which building? |
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| Where did Le Corbusier get the idea for linear housing in cities? |
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| What project was concieved an experimental fragment of ville radieuse? |
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| Define Le Corbusier's idea of a redit |
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| orthogonal geometry that uses stepping to provide different sized courtyards |
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| Le Corbusier's utopian city plan developed in the 1930's was named _____________ |
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| List 2 design ideas incorporated in the Ville Radieuse that were a direct response to the new battle techniques used in WWI |
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1. buildings are more spread out because of arial bombing
2. used pilotus because of poision gas |
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| Frank Lloyd Wright's design of 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 that Wright used in the Usonian house to control construction costs |
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1. slab on grade
2. 3 types of windows
3. standardized units |
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| The Usonian house was designed by __________ |
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| Broadachre City was a project invisioned by _________ |
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| The client for Wright's Falling Water house was ________________ |
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| List 2 important differences in the American city in 1960 between the actual international style of designs and the prediction of Bel Geddes in the 1939 GM Pavillion |
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1. building holds the street edge
2. no elevated walkways |
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List 2 aspects of the design of Rockelfeller Center that contribute to its success as an urban space
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1. slightly lower elevation from side walk
2. connection to urban surroundings |
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| The roof terraces in Rockefeller Center were said to be influenced by what ancient precident? |
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| The hanging gardents of Babylon |
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| The trademark image of the 1939 Worlds Fair was the ________________ |
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| List one exterior detail that allowed the Empire State Building to be constructed so quickly |
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| What determined the locations of the setbacks in the RCA building? |
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| ______________ was the American architect who's 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, this 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 real architecture and real beauty." This is a quote by |
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| Name 3 major industrial designers who were active in the 1930s |
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1. Bel Geddes
2. Fuller
3. Loewy
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| The apparent precedent for the massing of the Empire State Building was |
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| The designer of the Dymaxion House was ____________ |
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| The one word that best described the forms used to style art 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
New York Daily News Building |
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| Dymaxion was the term coined by ______________ which meant _____________ |
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Fuller
Dynamic Maxium Tension |
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| Briefly describe how Hood developed the massing of the RCA building |
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| started with elevator cores and determined the setbacks for those |
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| List 3 differences between Art Deco buildings and Art Moderne buildings |
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1. deco had verticals - moderne had horizontals
2. deco was handicraft - moderne had machine craft
3. deco had angles - moderne had curves
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| Art Moderne was symbolized by the use of ________________ |
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| List 2 reasons that explain why Mies cantilevered his roof/floors beyond the cornor columns |
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1. imply continuity of space
2. emphasis of the plane |
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| The beach house in Newport Beach for Dr.Phillip Lovell was designed by ______________ |
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| Upon his arrival in the US Gropius assumed the directorship of the architecture school at ______________ while Mies was eventually named the head of the school at __________________ |
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| How does Phillip Johnson's Glass House minimize heat gain in the summer? |
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| Another early post-WW II house that made use of steel, but differed from the essays of Mies and Johnson in that it utilized standardized parts and was composed in a sensitive irregularity which reflected a refined sense of the ordinary was designed by ___________________ |
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| List 2 requirements that had to be met by a building in order to qualify to be included in MOMA's 1932 "International Style" exhibition |
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1. architecture as volume rather than mass
2. regularity instead of axial symmetry
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The projects most often associated with Nazi Germany were designed by architect _______________
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| List 2 reasons why the Farnsworth House was an enviornmental disaster |
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1. single paned glass
2. non operable windows |
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| The only totalitarian regime in PreWWII Europe that did not adopt a literal Neo-classicism as the official style of the state was in what country? |
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| The Lovell Health House was designed by _________________ |
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| How did the elevation of the McGraw Hill Building differ from other skyscrappers designed by Hood? |
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| Horizontal emphasis instead of vertical |
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| List 2 architects who immigrated to the US before Hitler rose to power who were early practitioners of the international style in the US |
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| The 2 Austrian architects who came to the U.S. and worked with Wright were |
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| The first European architect to bring the international style to California was _____________________ |
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| What American is credited with coining the term, International Style? |
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| Who was the last director of the German Bauhaus? |
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| Name 2 skyscrappers built before WWII that exhibited the International style in some of their parts and list the architect of each |
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1. PSFS Building by Howe and Lescaze
2. McGraw Hill Building by Hood
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| The first skyscrapper in the US to exhibit the massing and exterior language of the European International style was ____________________ |
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| The 2 curators of the MOMA show, The International Style, were _________________ |
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| The McGraw Hill Building was designed by ________________ |
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| The casa del fascio was designe by ______________ |
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| Adolf Hitler chose ____________ architecture as symbolic of the Third Reich |
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| The Philidelphia Savings Fund Society Building was designed by ____________ |
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| The building that best represents the coming together of Wright's ideas of plan, section, and elevation in creating continuity of space and movement is __________________ |
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| List 2 details Mies used in his american buildings to divorce them from the exisiting urban fabric |
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1. raises the building on a podium
2. building set back from sidewalk |
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| What advantage is there is in offsetting the location of the core in the plan of a high rise office building? |
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| It is better for planning the space around the building |
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| What detail in the Lever House allows the pedestrian to reconnect with tower after leaving the sidewalk? |
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| the u shaped lifted terrace that creates a courtyard |
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What was the new architectural material whose price had dropped significantly after the end of WWII, that it quickly was adopted as the exterior material of choice for the next twenty years?
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| Describe the lateral (wind) load structure of the Sears Building/World Trade Center |
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| Tube structure, no cross bracing |
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| Describe the problem that rationalist international style designers, tried to avoid in the design of a skyscraper and what was the typical solution? |
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can't express each column the same
they would cantiliver the ends
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| __________________ was the last and tallest of the International style glass box skyscrappers |
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| What 3 enviornmental systems were combined in the development of the suspended ceiling during the 1950's? |
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1. Lighting
2. Ventilation
3. Sprinklers |
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| What kept the International style glass box skyscrapper from going no taller than the Chase Manhattan Bank? |
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| the structure needed to resist the wind would cost too much |
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| Discuss the interrelationship between exterior and interior detailing in choosing between a centerline to centerline curtain wall and one that is inserted between the sides of the columns |
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| cantilever the curtain wall out from the columns so that all the windows can be the same |
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| The first post WWII glass box skyscrapper in the US was ____________________ |
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| The Equitable Savings and Loan |
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| What 2 major projects were responsible for the large size of SOM by the end of WWII? |
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1. VA Hospitals
2. Manhattan Project |
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| What skyscrapper marked the ultimate retreat from the street and marked the beginning of plaza-mania? |
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| The conceptual design of the UN office tower was the product of ___________________ |
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| _________________ was responsible for the conceptual design of the UN office tower |
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| "I don't want to be interesting, I want to be good" is a quote ascribed to _____________ |
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| Describe the difference in how Mies designed spaces in his pre WWII buildings and those in his post WWII American building |
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Pre - flow of space and simplicity
Post - vertical emphasis, rational and symmetrical |
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| "Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space" is a quote by ____________ |
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| The SOM partner responsible for the design of the Lever House was ____________________ |
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| Why were the Lever House and the Seagram Building much more expensive than the face value of their construction? |
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| they did not build on the full site |
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| List 3 locations for a glass skin in a skyscrapper and list a building from class that is an example of each type |
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1. within structual cage - Equitable Savings and Loan
2. in front of structure - Lever House
3. in back of structure - Inland Steel |
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| The difference between SOM's typical corner detail as represented in the Inland Steel Building and Mies' typical corner detail as represented in the Seagrams building is _____________________ |
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Mies - cantilever the floor half a bay past the last column
SOM - placed a column in the corner to create a full bay |
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| New research indicates that WWII had two influences on the subsequent designs of Le Corbusier? |
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softer curvilinear shapes
use of raw concrete
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| balcony/ sun baffle wall - response to the southern sun |
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| A relatively new interpretation of Corbusier's use of concrete following WWII states that he was influenced by __________________ |
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| His atticipation of human race aniliation through atomic warfare |
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| Where did the term brutalism initially come from? |
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| exposed concrete used in unite d'habitation |
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| the proportioning system developed and used by Corbusier was known as ____________ |
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| The french term for the type of concrete construction used by Corbusier in his later projects is ___________ |
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| The formal pivot point of the composition in the otaniemi technical institue is the _____________ |
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| List 3 points of human contact in buildings that Aalto exploited with a change of materials |
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| The building usually credited as the inspiration for the design of the interview floor in Aalto's National Pension Institute is __________________ |
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| The formal pivot point of the massing in the Saynatsalo Townhall is the _______________ |
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| The best example of Aalto's undulating wall in his American buildings is _____________ |
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| The fan shaped plan is a typical scheme in the planning of many buildings designed by ______________ |
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| Which building by Aalto was the first to use wood in any significant way, marking his move away from pure functionalism? |
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| Discuss the reasons for the final configurations of the floor plan of the Vuoksenniska Church |
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| Sanctuary can be split into smaller parts to also be used as classrooms |
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| Describe the ideas behind the massing of the Baker House |
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Campus facing - orthagonal
River facing - curvy
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What did Aalto do in the National Pensions Institute to articulate the massing of the building so that it reads as interpenetrating masses rather than a continuous volume?
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| He had facades that don't quite line up |
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| Which building designed by Alvar Aalto marked his attempt to transcend the International Style? What is the reason for your answer? |
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Baker House
Use of red brick as exteior material, instead of white stucco |
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| Name 2 details Eliel Saarinen employed in Christ Lutheran Church in order to minimize acoustic shadows |
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1. sloped ceiling
2. undulating wall with sound absorption |
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| What technology did Eero Saarinen adopt from the automobile industry in the detailing of the GM Tech Center? |
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neoprene gasket glazing on windows
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| ________________ was given the responsibility for the design of all the buildings at the Cranbrook School of Design |
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| What 1 major reservation about the design of Dulles did Larson express? |
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| central drain rather than at the side |
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| What 2 major reservations of the design of Kresge Auditorium did Larson express? |
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1. structure not expressed on inside
2. shape is not good for acoustics
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Crow Island School, which set the model for the design of the post WWII elementary school in the US was designed by ________________
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The inspiration for the scale of Eero Saarinen's site plan of the GM Tech Center was ______________
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| List 3 technological innovations in construction developed by Eero Saarinen that would become standard techniques during the late 1960s |
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1. solar shading
2. neopreme gaskets
3. isolated fire proof structual systems |
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| What grade school established the prototype for the post WWII baby boom and who designed it? |
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Crow Island School
Saarnien |
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What is the name of the school of art in Detroit designed by Eliel Saarinen?
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| "The thing itself" was the objective of whose work? |
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| What 2 deviations from the International Style in the Yale Art Gallery represent Kahn's initial break with this style? |
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1. horizontal brick courses
2. exposed and expressed concrete structure |
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The occupiable exterior wall was a technique that evolved in the work of __________________
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| The "occupiable wall" is a major theme used by ___________ |
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| In describing the atrium of the Yale Museum of British Art, Larson pointed out a problem that has always plagued architects. This was ______________ |
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| losing the corner column on the interior |
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Kahn's pyramidal waffle slab in the Yale Art Museum was inspired by _____________
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| Kahn's use of hollow structure is thought to have derived from what technique of his bozart's training? |
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| "Let me tell you how I was made" describes whose approach to ornament? |
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| What did Louis Kahn mean by "discovering the 'form' of a problem?" |
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| cosmic essence of a problem |
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| Kahn's concept of "served and servant spaces" which developed out of his early use of hollow structures is thought by some historians to have been derived from what Beaux-Arts principle? |
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"Each space must be defined by its structure and the character of its natural light" is a quote by _________
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Name the concensus choice as the best design by american architects in the US and its architect in each category as expressed in this course
Best Building in America:
Best Urban Space:
Best Site Planning: |
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Best Building in America: Salk Institue - Kahn
Best Urban Space:
Best Site Planning: Cranbrook - Saarnien |
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