Spring term exam Architecture and Design Culture
Who designed the futuristic-looking automobile
Norman Bel Geddes
Who was the advocate of the teardrop shape?
Norman Bel Geddes
What city was the fair where Norman Bel Geddes designed the General Motors pavillion?
New York World's Fair
What style did Paul Nelson embrace?
Art deco
Where did Jean Prouvé teach (1957 to 1970)?
Arts and Metiers Conservatory Paris
When did Harry Bertoia move to the US?
As a teenager
Who did Richard Neutra work with breifly?
Frank Lloyd Wright
Who did Rudolf Schindler work with in Chicago with?
Frank Lloyd Wright
in 1953Jean Prouvé created what project with four architects?
MuMa Le Havre
Where did Jean Prouvé design his home?
Nancy
Where did Jean Prouvé open up a workshop?
Nancy
What styles did Kaj Gottlob contribute to?
Neoclassicism and Functionalism
What were the Arflex production based on?
New Stuffing materials
In 1930 Klampenborg resort complex established him as a leading proponent of WHAT?
international Modern Style
What is Darwin D. Martin house in Buffalo NY known for?
its four-sided fireplace
How did Charles and Ray Eames think regarding learning?
learning by doing
Where did Eero Saarinen study?
Cranbrook Academy
In 1927 Norman Bel Geddes open a studio, what type?
Industrial design studio
When did Frank Lloyd Wright die?
1959
When Did Jean Prouvé die?
1984
What are some more examples of structures/designs Arne Jacobsen designed?
-1937, Stelling House in Copenhagen -1941 Aarhus City Hall with Erik Moller, three different volumes -1950's housing complexes Allehusene and Soholm -1956, Rodovre Town Hall combined different materials -1956 Munkegaard School : pavilions connected by glass corridors, buildings arranged in a grid system -1956-60 SAS Royal Hall, considered the world's first designer hotel (building, furniture, airport buses) -1957 Saint Catherine's College in Oxford Chairs:
How many images were projected simultaneously for the THINK movie (inside an egg-shaped pavilion)
22 images
In 1890'sFrank Lloyd Wright designed homes in what style?
Colonial Revival Style
How many of Hans Wegner's chairs were mass produced?
100
When did Eliel Saarinen design the finish pavilion for the Paris world's fair?
1900
When was Taliesin,Wright's home, studio, school in Wisconsin partially destroyed?
1914
What two houses did Rudolf Schindler design in 1922?
1922 Lovell beach house, Schindler-Chase house
From when to when was Streamlined design present in America?
1930's to 1950
When was Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania built?
1937
1937 Charlotte Perriand collaborates with Fernand Leger on What?
A pavilion for the Paris 1937 fair
Charlotte Perriand designed a WHAT for Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseille?
A prototype kitchen
In 1959 Mathieu Matégot stopped designing furniture and moved to Angers to make WHAT?
Abstract tapestries
Who did Frank Lloyd Wright work for in Chicago?
Adler & Sullivan
Who did Richard Neutra study with?
Adolf Loos
What did Walter Dorwin Teague (1883-1960) work as?
American industrial designer, architect, illustrator, graphic designer, writer, entrepreneur
What did Jean Prouvé's father Victor Prouvé work as?
An artist
What are some of Arne Jacobsen's famous chair designs?
Ant chair, 1951, Seven Series 1955, Egg, Swan (1956), Dot Stool 1969, Tongue chair 1955, Pot chair 1959, Giraffe chair 1959,
What was Henry Dreyfuss philosophy?
Applying common sense to scientific principles.
What was Streamline design nicknamed?
Art Deco on the move
At what age did Jean Royère become a decorator?
At age 29
Isetta Italian-designed microcar produced by whom?
BMW
In 1970 Verner Panton designed a "psychedelic" environment of curved forms, tapestried walls and lights for WHERE?
Bayer's Visiona exhibit in Cologne, Germany
What house did Rudolf Schindler design in 1934?
Bennati A-frame house
What church did Kaare Klint design in 1935?
Bethlehem Church in Copenhagen
Who designed the Pernilla chair?
Bruno Mathsson
What apartmentsdid Rudolf Schindler design in 1934?
Bubeshko apartments
Where was Mathieu Matégot (1910-2001) born?
Budapest
1952 Mathieu Matégot opened up a workshop for more industrialized objects WHERE?
Casablanca
Who did Eero Saarinen create the tulip chair with?
Charles Eames
Who did Eero Saarinen meet when studying?
Charles and Ray Eames and Florence Knoll.
1947 Paul Nelson designed the Minimal family home with whom?
Charlotte Perriand
Who is seen to be the real designer of the LC series?
Charlotte Perriand
Who was Jean Prouvé with, in 1954 designing furniture for university residence at Jean-Zay in Antony?
Charlotte Perriand
Where was Paul Nelson (1895-1979) born?
Chicago
What is one example of the streamline
Coca-Cola Building
How would one describe Jean Prouvé's furnitures?
Daring
What was Walter Dorwin Teague also referred to?
Dean of Industrial Design
What house did Richard Neutra design in 1970 ?
Delcourt house, Croix, France
What country is Kaj Gottlob from?
Denmark
In 1946 Harry Bertoia moved to California to help Charles Eames develop methods of laminating and bending wood. What did he design using this technique in 1952?
Diamond chair for Knoll
What is the name of the office that The Eameses made their designs through?
Eames Office in Venice
Who were the two of the students at Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan?
Eames and Eero (Eliel Saaeinen's son)
Serge Mouille (1922-1988), studied metalworking at where?
Ecole of Applied Arts (today Duperré)
Who designed the TWA flight center, JKF airport, main terminal of Washington Dulles airport, East Air Terminal of the Athens airport in Greece (1967),
Eero Saarinen
Who designed the Gulf Building in Houston in 1929?
Eliel Saarinen
Who is Eero Saarinen's dad?
Eliel Saarinen
What is Eero Saarinen's dad's name?
ElielSaarinen
Jean Royère's early furniture had overtones of whom?
Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann
Where was Jean Prouvé a metalworker apprentice?
Enghien
What chairs did Kaare Klint design?
Faaborg Chair, Red chair, Museum chair, Propeller Stool, Safari Chair, Church chair and Deck Chair
What bottle design did Tapio Wirkkala design?
Finlandia Vodka bottle
Who designed the national radio building in 1943?
Finn Juhl
What material was there a revolutionary realizations in?(Early 1900's)
Folded sheet metal
What three pavilions did Walter Dorwin Teague ?
Ford pavilion, Dupont de Nemours pavilion and National Cash Register pavilion
What is the name of the Gerneral Motors pavilion Norman Bel Geddes designed in 1939?
Futurama
After visiting Milan Triennial Jean Royère discovered the work of what two architects?
Gio Ponti and Alvar Aalto
What is the name of the famous lounge chair Eero Saarinen designed?
Grasshopper
Which work was Frank Lloyed Wrights most important mid-career work?
Graycliff house, Buffalo, New York
What did Kaare Klint finish after his fathers death (who was also an architect)
Grundtvig's Church
In 1943-1959 Frank Lloyd Wright designed a museum in New York. What is it called?
Guggenheim Museum
What house did Richard Neutra design in 1954?
Hammerman house
Who said, "I have always wanted to make unexceptional things of an exceptionally high quality..."?
Hans Wegner
Why did Richard Neutra move to L.A?
He got an invitation from Schindler
What Railway Station did Eliel Saarinen design?
Helsinki Railway Station (1910-14)
Who designed the Hedite model (Hoover vacuum)?
Henry Dreyfuss
Why did Serge Mouille stop working at a fairly young age?
His tuberculosis acted up again
What house did Rudolf Schindler work on with Frank Lloyd Wright?
Hollyhock House
What is the name of the two books Norman Bel Geddes write?
Horizons and "Magic Motorways
What is the name of the house Arne Jacobsen and Flemming Larsen designed in 1929
House of the Future
Where was Harry Bertoia born?
Italy
What are some examples of the chairs Hans Wegner designed?
J16 Rocking Chair, 1944, Chinese Chair (no.1), 1944, Chinese Chair (no.4), 1945. Peacock Chair, 1947. "The Chair", 1949, Folding Chair, 1949. , Wishbone Chair, 1949. Flag Halyard Chair, 1950. Valet chair,1953. Ox Chair,1960 (with or without horns), Shell Chair, 1963, Hoop Chair, 1965
1940 to 1942 Charlotte Perriand lived in another country where she designed furniture and was inspired by her experiences and the culture. What country did she move to?
Japan
Who influenced Finn Juhl to design the Pelican Chair?
Jean Arp
1946 Charlotte Perriand started to begin independently designing again she collaborated with what two architects?
Jean Prouvé and Fernand Leger
Who is known as the father of modern Danish furniture design?
Kaare Klint
Who designed the Copenhagen schools 1930's (Katrinadel, Samosjej)
Kaj Gottlob
What did Kaj Gottlob design in 1930?
Knippelsbro and Langebro towers
What is the company Florance Knoll formed with her husband designing postwar corporate office furniture with artistic textiles.
Knoll Associate
What house did Richard Neutra design in 1955 ?
Kronish house
What did Jean Royère (1902-1981) work as before becoming a decorator? 9
Law
With what two architects did Charlotte Perriand collaborate with in 1927?
Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret
Jean Royère opened agencies in a variety of countries like, where?
Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and Peru.
What house did Rudolf Schindler design in 1948?
Lechner house
What did Frank Lloyd Wright call stained glass windows?
Light screens
Who did Poul Henningsen collaborate with?
Louis Poulsen
What house did Richard Neutra design in 1927-29?
Lovell house (L.A. Confidential)
Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini (Rationalist architects) designed what in 1952-54?
Madonna dei Poveri
1959 Charlotte Perriand works with Le Corbusier and Brazilian architect Lucio Costa on the interior and furniture of their WHAT?
Maison du Brésil at the Cité Universitaire in Paris
1927, at age 24 Charlotte Perriand had designed her Bar sous le toit presented at Salon d'Automne was spotted by what two architects?
Mallet Stevens and Le Corbusier
Who did the Pirelli technicians work with to produce the Lady armchair, Martingale armchair, the Fourline armchair?
Marco Zanuso
In what style did Eero Saarinen design the General MotorsTechnical Center after?
Mies Van der Rohe
Who did Florence Knoll study under?
Mies van der Rohe and Eliel Saarinen
Who founded Tecno?
Osvaldo e Fulgenzio Borsani
Who did Norman Bel Geddes design Airline number 4 and 9-deck amphibian airliner with?
Otto Koller
Where did Rudolf Schindler study?
Otto Wagner's school
Poul Kjærholm distinctive style is evident in what series?
PKO minimalist plywood series
Where did Mathieu Matégot move to in 1932? To become originally a set designer?
Paris
Who designed uniform illumination, 1958, PH Artichoke, PH5, PH Grand Piano and Pianette 1931, 1932 Pope and Snake chairs?
Poul Henningsen
What architecture stylie is this? A late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands.
Prairie School
What are the Prairie houses made of?
Pre-cast concrete, blocks, glass bricks, zinc links for stained glass windows
1971 president of jury to select architect for Centre Pompidou. Who won?
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers
Who did Rudolf Schindler meet in Vienna?
Richard Neutra
When making the stackable Panton Chair Verner Panton was inspired by whos chair?
Rietveld's Zig-Zag chair
Where was Kaj Gottlob architecture professor at ?
Royal Danish academy of Fine Arts
1937 Paris World's Fair Jean Royère designed WHAT for artist decorator, aluminum, ceramic pavilions.
Settings
Serge Mouille began selling lights through WHAT company for cafeterias, institutions, ocean liners 2 best known for pared-down, pivoting lights in metal that were always painted in black
Sinma company
1961 Charlotte Perriand Begins a long-running project to design WHAT in Savoie including Les Arcs.
Ski resorts
What did Jean Prouvé create for the 1937 Paris World´s Fair?
Staircase for Union des Artists Modernes pavilion
In 1934 Jean Prouvé created a furniture that was then produced on an assembly. What furniture was it?
Standard chair
1954 Serge Mouille was showed at WHERE?
Steph Simon design gallery, Boulevard Saint Germain
What did Frank Lloyd Wright consider the only true building material?
Stone
What house did Richard Neutra design at 1937?
Strathmore apartments
Where did Arne Jacobsen spend World War 2?
Sweden
Where is Bruno Mathsson from?
Sweden
What did Tapio Wirkkala design for Finnair 1960?
Table service
In what building did Frank Lloyd Wright live in until he died?
Taliesin West
Who won an award competition sponsored by Iittala glass in 1946?
Tapio Wirkkala
What shape was Streamlines optimal form?
Teardrop
1931 Charlotte Perriand collaborated with Le Corbusier on WHAT? Most of the original drawings were hers
The Cité Radieuse in Marseille,
Who designed the Solar Do-Nothing Machine for Alcoa 1964 IBM Pavilion New York World's Fair?
The Eameses
Raymond Loewy (1893-1986)-French-American industrial designer, spent his career in the US. -designed home appliances such as:
The Lucky Strike logo, logos, locomotives and their interiors, Scenicruiser bus, Coca-Cola vending machiness, Le Creuset pots, Coldspot refrigerators, Studebaker Avanti, Air Force One. - cars and their interiors -interior of Skylab for NASA.
1958 Charlotte Perriand designed WHAT with Jean Prouvé?
The Saharian house
Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) came from a modest family. She graduated in 1925, but from where?
The Union Central des Arts Decoratifs
What did Jean Prouvé create in 1924?
The first folding chair
Where is Astoria Resturant situated (Verner Panton)?
Trondheim Norway
What are two examples of furnitures that Poul Kjærholm designed?
Tulip chair and Rocking chair
What country did Richard Neutra movie to 1923?
US
What two Embassies did Eero Saarinen design?
US Embassy in London and US Embassy inOslo
What country did Eliel Saarinen move to in 1923?
United States
What was Rudolf Schindler philosophy?
Using complex 3-dimensional forms and warm materials, worked mostly in concrete with wood and glass
Today Verner Panton's most famous creations are still produced and exhibited at WHAT museum?
Vitra design museum
Who is the designer of first gas stations?
Walter Dorwin Teague
who did Harry Bertoia meet at Cranbrook Academy of Art?
Walter Gropius, The Eameses and Florence Knoll
What did Henry Dreyfuss work as?
industrial designer
1944 Mathieu Matégot began making furnitures using what materials?
Wicker mesh with metallic frames
Who inspired Frank Lloyd Wright to design his Oak park home
William Morris
Where was Frank Lloyd Wright Born?
Wisconsin 1867
Who was Jean Prouvé?
a French builder
What furniture did Arne Jacobsen win a silver medal for at 1925 Paris World's fair ?
a chair design
Taliesin,Wright's home, studio, school in Wisconsin was partially destroyed by what?
a fire
Who founded Arflex ?
a group of Pirelli technicians
What did they do in Superstudio? (Florence)
carried out theoretical research in design and architecture
What architectural style is Eliel Saarinen known for?
early 20th century art nouveau and Finnish National Romanticism
Hans Wegner (1914 -2007) style described as Organic Functionality, modernist school with emphasis on WHAT?
function
What was Bruno Mathsson influenced by?
functionalism and craft traditions
What did Harry Bertoia study as at Cranbrook Academy of Art?
metalworking
What is Arne Jacobsen, (1902 - 1971) known for?
modernism focusing on proportion
How many chairs did Hans Wegner design?
over 500 different chairs
What did the Eameses design for emergency transports during WW2?
plywood leg splint
What is the name of the lamp Tapio Wirkkala designed in 1958?
praying mantis lamp
What and where did Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) first work as after studying arts?
set designer in Los Angeles and for New York Metropolitan Opera
Serge Mouille opened his own business to design metal pieces for WHAT?
tableware
What inspired Verner Panton?
the Earth and the human body
a year before Jean Royère death he left his entire archives to WHERE?
the Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris.
