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What are the four types of construction that Semper used to order The Four Elements of Architecture?
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Wood Carpentry, Stone Masonry, Ceramic TIles, Woven Fabric
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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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Who was the first theoretician to speculate about the woven qualities of the primitive curtain wall?
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Which German artist usually credited as having coined the term “gesamtkunstwerk”?
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The Wasmuth Volumes documented the early work of which architect?
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The term, raumplan, was devised by which architect to describe his interiors which incorporated interpenetrations of spaces?
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Who designed the Steiner House?
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Imposing one's artistic will
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What is the German term for an individual "imposing one's artistic will" upon a design problem?
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Which German architectural writer mythologized the English Arts and Crafts house at the turn of the century?
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What are two leading designers that were placed in charge of a major German school of design prior to WWI?
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What was Loos' major criticism of the Deutscher Werkbund?
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Too cotrolled- They tried to stardardize everything
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The Deutscher Werkbund chose which architect to design the model factory for its 1914?
The final design was influenced by what Wright building?
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Peter Behrens was hired by who to redesign its corporate image?
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Who was the author of "Ornament and Crime"?
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AEG of Germany hired who to redesign its entire image, production, and buildings?
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What was one of the three founders of the Deutscher Werkbund?
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Gropius was responsible for what building at the 1914 Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition?
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Who wrote Das Englische Haus?
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What was Loos' opinion of Gesamtkunstwerk ?
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Loos thinks Gesamtkunstwerk takes things too far and is too anal because it used all art forms
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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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For Behrens a factory is a piece of art so he expresses the structure, for Albert Kahn a factory was purely functional, he only did the medium
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What organization was founded to encourage the improvement of machine
production in Germany?
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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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The English Arts and Crafts house
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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 factory deemphasized the corner, AEG Turbine factory puts emphasis on the corner. Behrens pulls the columns out, Gropius pushes the columns inside.
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What was Loos' criticism of Behren's designs?
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Behrens does gesamtkunstwerk which is too controling
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What was Adolf Loos' major written treatise on architecture?
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Who designed the Fagus Works?
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Which German architectural theorist noted the inferior quality of German manufactured goods at the 1851 World's Fair?
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