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| What was the difference in how Wright approached the design of his interiors and how Van Doesburg designed his interiors? |
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Wright: arranged continuous, free flow
Doesburg: lacked understanding of space |
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| What architectural theoretician was responsible for the shift in deisgn theory away from Expressionism at the Weimar Bauhaus? |
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| The event most responsible for the philosophical switch at the Bauhaus from Expressionism to "The New Architecture" was |
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| Describe Mies' spatial order in his designs of 1923-1929: |
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| spiral right hand turn & assymetry |
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| List three important design ideas Mies employed in the Barcelona Pavilion |
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| reflection, asymmetry, free standing wall |
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| The first building designed by Corbusier that incorporated pilotis was |
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| The original purpose of the Dom-ino system was to |
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| The building designed by Aalto that best represents his interpretation of Corbu's five points is the |
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| Aalto's first International Style building was the |
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| Why did Asplund incorporate spaces with skewed (non-parallel) walls in his early houses? |
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| Describe Aalto's use of colors on the exterior of the Paimio Sanitarium: |
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| when he cuts into the white box, it bleeds color |
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| Where did Le Corbusier get the idea for linear housing and cities? |
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| Frank Lloyd Wright's design of the Johnson Wax Building can be best described as his interpretation of what style? |
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| The major design innovation in the Usonian houses that influenced the design of post-WW II suburban tract homes was |
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| Corb's first all glass building |
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| Ville Radieuse with pilotis & open courts |
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| List two important differences in the American city in 1960 between the actual International Style designs and the prediction of Bel Geddes in the 1939 GM Pavilion: |
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smaller roads
& pulled back from the street |
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| List two aspects of the design of Rockelfeller Center that contribute to its success as an urban space: |
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| pedestrian level is sunken, it continued the street |
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| List one exterior detail that allowed the Empire State Building to be constructed so quickly |
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| List three differences between Art Deco buildings and Art Moderne buildings |
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ortho vs. curved
warm vs. cool
vertical vs. horizontal |
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| "Why not try nothing" was the rationale of Hood for the design of what building? |
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| Two reasons that explain why Mies cantilevered his roofs/floors beyond the corner columns |
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o to avoid the corner
o further continuity |
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| Another early post-WW II 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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