Shared Flashcard Set

Details

HTC: Lecture 25
Saarinen
23
History
Undergraduate 2
08/31/2009

Additional History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
The beach house in Newport Beach for Dr. Phillip Lovell was designed by who?
Definition
Rudolph Schindler
Term
Upon his arrival to the US, Gropius assumed the directorship of the architecture school at _________ while Mies eventually was named head of the school at ____
Definition
Harvard/IIT
Term
How does Phillip Johnson's Glass House minimize heat gain in the summer?
Definition
Shading by deciduous trees
Term
Another early post WW II house that made use of steel but differed from the essays of Mies and Johnson in that is utilized standardized parts and was composed in a sensitive irregularity which reflected a refined sense of the ordinary was designed by who?
Definition
Eames and Saarinen
Term
2 requirements that had to be met by a building in order to qualify to be included in MOMA'a 1932 "Intl Style" exhibition
Definition
1. arch. as volume rather than mass
2. no arbitrary ornament to the building
Term
Projects most associated with Nazi Germany were designed by what architect?
Definition
Speer
Term
2 reasons why the Farnsworth House was an environmental disaster
Definition
1. non operable windows
2. singled pane windows
Term
Only totalitarian regime in PreWWII Europe that did not adopt a literal Neo-classicism as teh official style of teh state was in what country?
Definition
Italy
Term
How did the elevation of the McGraw Hill Building differ from other skyscrapers designed by Hood?
Definition
Emphasized horizontal and had continuous spandrels
Term
2 architects who immigrated to US before Hitler rose to power who were early practitioners of the Intl. Stlye in the US
Definition
1. Schindler
2. Neutra
Term
2 architects who immigrated to US after Hitler rose to power who were early practitioners of the Intl. Stlye in the US
Definition
1. Gropius
2. Mies
Term
2 Austrian architects who came to the US and worked with FLW
Definition
1. Schindler
2. Neutra
Term
1st Euro. architect to bring Intl. Style to California
Definition
Schindler
Term
Who is credited with coining of the term "Intl. Style" and for what reason?
Definition
Phillip Johnson for the MOMA exhibit
Term
Last director of the German Bauhaus
Definition
Mies
Term
2 skyscrapers built before WW!! that exhibited the Intl. Style in some of their parts, list the architect of each
Definition
1. PSFS Building by Howe and Lescaze
2. McGraw-Hill Building by Hood
Term
1st skyscraper in the US to exhibit the massing and the exterior language of the European "Intl. Style" was the what?
Definition
PSFS
Term
2 curators of the MOMA show were who?
Definition
1. Johnson
2. Hitchcock
Term
Mc-Graw-Hill Building was designed by who?
Definition
Hood
Term
The Casa del Fascio was designed by who?
Definition
Terragní
Term
High Point I was designed by who?
Definition
Lubetkin
Term
Hitler chose what type of architecture as symbolic of the Third Reich?
Definition
Neo-Classical
Term
the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building was designed by who?
Definition
Howe and Lescaze
Supporting users have an ad free experience!