ARCH 127 Exam 3
McKim, Mead & White's design of the Boston Public Library was most directly influenced by which architect's library design?
Henri Labrouste
Who first introduced the idea of an all glass skyscraper? This occurred during a competition.
Mies van der Rohe
The modern movement was influenced by the architect who wrote: "On the outside, the building must remain dumb and reveal its richness only on the inside". Identify the architect.
Adolf Loos
What modernist architect, was viewed as less beholden to rationalism and functionalism because of his use of curved lines, contrasting materials, and a penchant for picturesque massing?
Alvar Aalto
Which group delivered visions of technologically advanced cities, a living, flowing, pulsing, flexible organism that challenged the grid established by Le Corbusier?
Archigram
What is not true about the Reliance Building in Chicago?
it has a heavy cornice
Wanting to introduce concrete into domestic architecture, who designed and built an apartment building using concrete as the main part of the structure?
Auguste Perret
Where would you find the Plaza of the Three Powers?
Brazil
The French phrase for exposed concrete, named this style of architecture which expresses 'honesty' in materials.
Brutalism
Whose key concept was called synergetics?
Buckminister Fuller
From the early 20th century onward, which group had the most important impact on architectural thinking?
CIAM
Which project has a roof that looks like the scales of a dragon?
Casa Batlló
Who was part of John Entenza's case study group, constructing prototype housing in Los Angeles?
Charles Eames
Which Expressionist group was most enamored with technology, speed and machinery?
Italian
This architect was intrigued by the interaction between humans and the technical, or 'served and service' spaces.He clearly separated them into almost sculptural elements in the program.
Kahn
Urbanization as an organic system was called
Metabolism
Who had the commission to design the first truly modern college campus in history, and initiated a new type of space ( large, vacuous spaces defined by a simple symmetry) that became central to his aesthetics?
Mies van der Rohe
Whose private residence was famously influenced by the Farnsworth House?
Phillip Johnson
What historical precedent influenced the design of Pennsylvania Station, New York City?
Roman Bath
What is not true about the Weissenhof Siedlung project?
Stuttgart was chosen as the site because of the conservative politics of its regional government
Which project designed by the firm Piano & Rogers, was about "legibility"?
The Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
From the early 20th century onward, this group had the most important impact on architectural thinking:
The Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne
Frank Lloyd Wright developed his own version of the pattern-book house that was a long tradition in the United States. What did he called the houses?
Usonian
Which person is most identified as an Art Nouveau architect?
Victor Horta
This exhibition was a turning point in the history of modernism. It showed that the movement had a common mission.
Weissenhof Siedlung
Which best describes Rockefeller Center, according to our textbook?
a city within a city
Which was the least problematic aspect of building a skyscraper in the 1890's?
design of the steel frame
What does the pilotis, the free plan, the free façade, the strip window and the roof terrace have in common?
ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright
Charles Moore felt architecture needed to integrate sensitivity to the landscape with an aesthetic determined by psychology and memory. This was called
phenomenology
Which of these is a characteristic of the Beaux-Arts?
symmetry, hierarchy, open and closed spaces, axiality
Which group sought to engender a new unified pedagogy and vision that unified the arts and crafts, in collaboration with industry?
the Bauhaus
What is not true about Germany's success in industrial production?
they achieved this through their colonial conquests
