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25: Glass Box
Exam 3
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Architecture
Undergraduate 1
05/31/2012

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Two reasons that explain why Mies cantilievered his roofs/floors beyond the corner columns:
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a. the space is continuous in the space time continuum
b.
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List three differences between Mies design of the Farnsworth House, and Johnson's design of his Glass House:
Definition
a. lifted off of the ground vs. not lifted
b. cantilever vs. no cantilever
c. white vs. black
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List two reasons why the Farnsworth House was an environmental disaster:
Definition
a. couldn't open windows in summer so it was hot and humid
b. not enough insulation so too cold in winter
Term
List two details Mies used in his American buildings to divorce them from the existing urban fabric:
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a. lifted off ground
b.
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What advantage is there in offsetting the location of the core in the plan of a highrise office building?
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What detail in the Lever House allows the pedestrian to reconnect with tower after leaving the sidewalk?
Definition
the hole in the middle of the platform they walk under
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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?
Definition
aluminum
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Describe the lateral (wind) load structure of the Sears Building/World Trade Center:
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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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b.
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________ was the last and tallest of the International Style glass box skyscrapers
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Why were the Lever House and the Seagram's building much more expensive than the face value of their construction?
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they were pulled away from the street so that the skyscraper wasn't actually built on the entire real estate
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What kept the International Style glass box skyscraper from going no taller than the Chase Manhattan Bank?
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Term
"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space" is a quote by ________
Definition
Mies
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The first post WWII glass box skyscraper in the US was the ________
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Equitable Savings and Loan Building
Term
Sketch the typical floor plan of the Inlaid Steel Building:
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Sketch the corner detail of a typical Mies skyscraper:
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Term
What two major projects were responsible for the large size of SOM by the end of WWII?
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a. "Clinton Engineering Works"
b. Lever House
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What skyscraper marked the ultimate retreat from the street and the start of "Plaza-mania"?
Definition
Term
The conceptual design of the UN office tower was the product of ________
Definition
Le Corbusier
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________ was responsible for the conceptual design of the UN office tower
Definition
Le Corbusier
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"I don't want to be interesting, I want to be good." is a quote ascribed to ________
Definition
Mies
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Describe the difference in how Mies designed spaces in his pre-WWII European buildings and those in his post-WWII American buildings:
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List the three locations for a glass skin in a skyscraper and list a building from class that is an example of each type:
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b.
3.
c.
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The difference between SOM's typical corner detail as represented in the Inlaid Steel Building and Mies' typical corner detail as represented in the Seagram's Building is:
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