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History of Modern Architecture Exam 3 - L25
Lecture 25
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Undergraduate 2
06/06/2011

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The Beach house in Newport beach for Dr. Phillip Lovell was designed by:
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Schindler
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The Lovell Health House was designed by:
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Neutra
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The two Austrian architects who came to the U.S. and worked with Wright were:
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1. Schindler
2. Neutra
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List tow architects who immigrated to the U.S. before Hitler rose to power who were early practitioners of the International Style in the U.S.:
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1. Lescaze
2. Neutra
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The first European architect to bring the International style to California was:
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Schindler
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The Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Buildings was designed by:
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Howe and Lescaze
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Sketch the typical office floor plan of the PSFS Building:
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Like a T with short arms, offices all around edges, circulation T in center
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The first skyscraper in the US to exhibit the massing and the exterior language of the European International Style was:
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The Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building
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The McGraw-Hill Building was designed by:
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Hood
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How did the McGraw-Hill building differ from other skyscrapers designed by Hood?
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Horizontal emphasis instead of vertical
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What American is credited with coining the term "International Style"?
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Johnson
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Name two skyscrapers built before WWII that exhibited the International Style in some of their parts, list the architect of each:
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1. Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building, Howe and Lescaze
2. McGraw-Hill, Hood
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The two curators of the MOMA show, "The International Style" were"
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1. Johnson
2. Hitchcock
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List two requirements that had to be met by a buildings in order to qualify to be included in MOMA's 1932 "International Style" exhibition:
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1. Architecture represented as a volume rather than mass
2. Regularity rather than axial symmetry
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Who was the last director of the German bauhaus?
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Mies
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Upon their arrival in the US, what did Gropius and Mies do?
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Gropius - assumed the directorship of the architecture school at Harvard
Mies - eventually was named the head of the school at IT.
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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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Italy
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The Casa del Fascio was designed by:
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Terragni
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Two reasons that Mies cantilevered his roofs/floors beyond the corner columns:
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1. Implying continuity of space
2. Emphasis of the plane
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What style did Hitler choose as symbolic of the Third Reich?
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Neoclassical architecture
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The projects most often associated with Nazi Germany were designed by what architect?
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Speer
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List two reasons why the Farnsworth House was an environmental disaster:
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1. Single-pane glass
2. Non-operable windows
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List two 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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1. Mies
2. Gropius
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How does Philip Johnson's Glass House minimize heat gain in summer?
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Shade from trees
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Another early post-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 a sense of the ordinary, was designed by:
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Eames and Saarinen
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