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18: German Werkbund
Larson
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Architecture
Undergraduate 1
05/06/2012

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The German architectural theorist who noted the interior quality of German manufactured goods at the 1851 World's Fair was ________
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What past style did Semper champion as being capable of further development?
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What was the precedent for the Brandenburg Gate?
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The first theoretician to speculate about the woven qualities of the primitive curtain wall was ________
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The German artist usually credited as having having coined the term "gesamtkunstwerk" is ________
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The Wasmuth Volumes documented the early work of ________
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The German architectural writer who mythologized the English Arts and Crafts house at the term of the century was ________
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Gropius was responsible for what building at the 1914 Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition?
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Name two leading designers that were placed in charge of a major German school of design prior to WWI
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Loos' major criticism of the Deutscher Werkbund was that it ________
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The Deutscher Werkbund chose ________ to design the model factory for its 1914 Cologne exhibition. The final design was influenced by what Wright building?
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AEG of Germany hired ________ to redesign its entire image, production, and buildings.
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One of the three founders of the Deutscher Werkbund was __________
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Das Englische Haus was written by ________
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What was the primary difference in intention between a Kahn-designed factory and the Behrens-designed AEG factory?
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The ________ was founded to encourage the improvement of machine production
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Behrens was greatly influenced by which philosopher?
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Herman Muthesius used which type of building as the model for Germany to emulate in order to improve its building design?
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How can one view the design of the Fagus factory as an inverse of the AEG Turbine factory?
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The Fagus Works was designed by ________
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