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| Upon his arrival in the US, Gropius assumed the directorship of the architecture school at________ while Mies eventually was named head of the school at |
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| How does Philip Johnson's Glass House minimize heat gain in the summer? |
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| shading by deciduous trees |
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| Another early past-WWII 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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Arch as volume rather than mass
no arbitrary ornament to a building |
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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 environmental disaster: |
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1. non operable windows
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| The only totalitarian regime in Pre WWII Europe that did not adopt a literal Neo-Classicism as the official style of the state was in what country? |
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| How did the elevation of the McGraw-Hill Building differ from other skyscrapers designed by Hood? |
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| Emphasized horizontal and had continuous Spandrels |
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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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| List 2 architects who immigrated to the US after 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 US 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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| Who is credited with the coining of the term "International Style" and for what reason |
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| Who was the last director of the German Bauhaus? |
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| Name 2 skyscrapers built before WWII that exhibited the International Style in some of their parts, list the architect of each: |
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1. PSFS building-Howe and Lescaze
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| The first skyscraper in the US to exhibit the amssing and the exterior language of the European "International Style" was the |
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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 designed by |
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| High Point I, an early Le Corbusier-inspired, International Style apartment building outside of London, was designed by |
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| Adolf Hitler chose_____ architecture as symbolic of the Third Reich |
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| The Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building was designed by |
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