History 3: Exam 2
Where was Bedford Park Estate built?
outside London
What did Henry Van de Velde believe?
-founder of Art Nouveau -abstract ornamentation (simplified)
What did William Morris believe?
-founder of arts and crafts movement -rejected faux or mass produced materials
When was Bandung Institute of Technology built?
1920
Who built Villa Muller?
Adolf Loos
Who built the American Bar interior?
Adolf Loos
Who built the Steiner House?
Adolf Loos
Which structure visually expresses its architect's approach, in which the building is conceived as a whole and molded as a sculptor might shape a figure from clay?
Antonio Gaudi's Casa Milá
Who built Casa Milá?
Antonio Gaudí
Which style developed out of the Arts and Crafts movement and adapted natural forms to the needs of architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts?
Art Nouveau
Where was Bandung Institute of Technology built?
Bandung, India
Where was Casa Milá built?
Barcelona, Spain
Where was The Red House built?
Bexley Heath, England
Where was William G. Low House built?
Bristol, Rhode Island
Who built the Glasgow School of Art?
Charles R. Mackintosh
Who built the Gamble House?
Charles and Henry Greene
Where was the F.C. Robie House built?
Chicago
Where was the Marshall Field Store built?
Chicago
Who built the Reliance Building?
Daniel Burnham
William Morris embraced luxury and encouraged the middle classes to buy mass-produced objects to decorate their houses.
False
Typical of Wright's "prairie houses," the Robie House has a bold "wondering" asymmetrical plan with inticately joined open and closed spaces grouped freely around a great central ...
Fireplace
Organic architecture and the prairie style are architectural ideas associated with which architect?
Frank Lloyd Wright
Who built the F.C. Robie House?
Frank Lloyd Wright
Where was the Glasgow School of Art built?
Glasgow, Scotland
Who painted The Kiss?
Gustav Klimt
Who built the Bandung Institute of Technology?
Henri Maclaine Pont
Who built Marshall Field Store?
Henry H. Richardson
Which statement best describes Gustav Klimt's The Kiss, pictured here?
It combines abstract patterns with naturalistic elements, such as the face.
Who built the Peacock Room?
James A. M. Whistler
Who built the Secession Exhibition Building?
Josef Olbrich
Where was the Peacock Room built?
London
Who built the Guaranty (Prudential) Building?
Louis Henry Sullivan
Who built William G. Low House?
Mc Kim, Mead and White
Adolf Loos advocated for the removal of ................. from utilitarian objects.
Ornament
Who built the Postal Savings Bank?
Otto Wagner
Where was the Gamble House built?
Pasadena, CA
Who built the Red House?
Phillip Webb and William Morris
Where was Villa Muller built?
Prague
Who built Bedford Park Estate?
Richard Norman Shaw
For Henry Van de Velde "... a line is a force... This force and this energy affects the mechanism of the eye in the way that they force it - the eye- into directions. These directions complement each other, combine with one another and in the end create definite forms."
True
In 1898, August Endell wrote "the architect must be a form-artist; the path to new architecture leads only through the art of pure form."
True
Who built the Tassel House?
Victor Horta
Where was the American Bar interior built?
Vienna
Who painted Starry Night?
Vincent Van Gogh
What did Owen Jones believe?
-looked to the Islamic world for inspiration -bold theories on the use of color, geometry and abstraction
What did Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr believe?
-preferred simplicity and order -symmetry and balance -disliked Victorian style*-
What did Otto Wagner believe?
-rejected old styles -focus on construction as part of architecture
What did Heinrich Wölfflin believe?
-relates mental and physical state to architectural form -importance of how one feels and moves throughout a space
What did Christopher Dresser believe?
-tactile qualities of materials -focus on color
When was The Red House built?
1859-60
When was the Peacock Room built?
1876-77
When was Bedford Park Estate built?
1877
When was the Marshall Field Store built?
1885-87
When was William G. Low House built?
1887
When was Starry Night painted?
1889
When was the Tassel House built?
1892-93
When was the Guaranty (Prudential) Building built?
1894
When was the Reliance Building built?
1894-95
When was the Glasgow School of Art built?
1897-1909
When was the Secession Exhibition Building built?
1897-98
When was the Postal Savings Bank built?
1904-06
When was Casa Milá built?
1905-10
When was the American Bar interior built?
1907
When was The Kiss painted?
1907-08
When was the Gamble House built?
1907-08
When was the F.C. Robie House built?
1908-10
When was the Steiner House built?
1910
When was Villa Muller built?
1928
Members of which movement dedicated themselves to producing functional objects with high aesthetic value for a wide public?
Arts and Crafts
Where was the Tassel House built?
Brussels, Belgium
Where was the Guaranty (Prudential) Building built?
Buffalo
Where was the Reliance Building built?
Chicago
In Modern Architecture (1896) Otto Wagner wrote "the architect always has to develop the art-form out of ........"
Construction
Which structure best embodies Louis Sullivan's dictum "form follows function," expressing the relationship between the building's interior and its exterior?
Guaranty (Prudential) Building
In "Ornament in Architecture" Louis Sullivan wrote "I believe, as I have said, that an excellent and beautiful building may be designed that shall bear no ornament whatever; but I believe just as firmly that a decorated structure, harmoniously conceived, well considered, cannot be stripped of its system of ornament without destroying its individuality."
True
Where was the Postal Savings Bank built?
Vienna
Where was the Secession Exhibition Building built?
Vienna
Where was the Steiner House built?
Vienna
In which Art Nouveau building massive forms are integrated with organic and opulent decoration?
Vienna Secession Building by Joseph Maria Olbrich
Which artist explored the capabilities of colors and distorted forms to express his emotions as he confronted nature?
Vincent van Gogh
