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HTC 30
Kahn
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Architecture
Undergraduate 2
08/31/2009

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7-4 What two deviations from the International Style in the Yale Art Gallery represent Kahn's initial break with this style?

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a. horizontal brick courses

b. exposed concrete structure expressed

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6-2 Sketch Kahn's concept for the elevations of the Exeter Academy Library:

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22-2 Sketch Kahn's plan concept for the First Unitarian Church:

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34-2 The occupiable exterior wall was a technique that evolved in the work of _____

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Kahn
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11. The occupiable wall is a major theme used by____

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Kahn
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1-2 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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11-2 Sketch a structural bay of the Kimball Art Museum:

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32-2 Kahn's pyramidal waffle slab in the Yale Art Museum was inspired by _________

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Fuller
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1-2 Kahn's use of hollow structure is thought to have derived from what technique of his Beaux-Arts training?

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poche
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17-2 "Let me tell you how I was made" describes whose approach to ornament?

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Kahn
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32-4 Sketch the structure of a typical floor in the Richards Medical Center:

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1- What did Louis Kahn mean by "discovering the 'form' of a problem?"

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The cosmic essence of any given problem
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2- 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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poche
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3. Sketch the plan of the Trenton Jewish Community Center bath house and diagram the movement pattern from entrance through locker rooms to pool

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26-2 "Each space must be defined by its structure and the character of its natural light" is a quote by:

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Kahn
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