Quiz Retake
The house that Ray and Charles Eames deisgned for themselves as part of the case study houses program used expensive materials imported from different parts of the world.
False
Anne Tyng
Luois Kahn
Villa Mairea, Noormaku, Finland
Aluar and Aino Aalto
Who among the following architects collared with Le Corbuiser?
Charolette Perriand
Theo van Doesburg and Cornelius Eestern, members of the De stijl movement, propsed a series of hypothetical architectural projects. What was their preferred type of architectural represenation?
Axonometric Drawing
School of Architecture, Ahmendabad, India
Balkrishna Doshi
Upon departing from the Bauhaus, textile artist Anne Albers worked and taught at which American insitute of higher education?
Black Mountian College, Ashville NC
Matteotti Neighborhood, Terni, Italy
Giancalo de Carlo
What is the architectural relavance of Gerrit Rietvald's orginal training as a furniture designer?
He applies prinicples of furniture joinery to spatial articulations
Which spefic local tradition is present in the memorial to Ghandi designed by the Indian architect Charles Correa?
Indian Mandela
River-Kahlo House, Mexico City, Mexico
Juan O'Gorman
Charolette Perriand
Le Corbusier
Lily Reich
Ludwig Mies van der Rone
Byker Wall, Newcastle, UK
Ralph Erskine
Designed by Hassan Fathy, the village of New Gourna in Egypt was acclaimed by the villagers and the local community, showing the success of modern architecture adapted to local conditions
True
To ensure a solid training across the curriculum, all freshmen students had to take the same classes, regardless of their major
True
Gerrit Rietveld
Truus Schroder
What is the De Stijl movement?
an artist and architectural movement that promoted an abstract artist language
What do the Rivera-Kahlo House and Luis Barragan house have in common?
both houses employ a modern language strongly influenced by local traditions
There are certian design aspects that have proven to contribute to successful social housing. What are some of these features?
green spaces and public spaces for social interaction and design variety
Which of the following are causes of frequent failures of subsized housing in the US?
inadequete funding and racial segregation
What consitutes an innovative feature of Paul Revere Williams design for Frank Sinatra's residence in LA
interior acoustial treatment
Which of the following consitute features of public housing in communist contries?
prefabrication in order to advance cheap and rapid construction standardization based on the assumption that all people are the same
Which of the following is true about the E. 1027 houses?
the furniture is intergrated with the architecture and architectural spaces and furninature pieces have multiple uses
What role have the textiles used in the Tugendhat Villa?
they act as theartical devices that reveal or hide the spaces in the house and cover windows and spatial dividers
Which of the following were goals of the Bauhaus education and practice?
to bring together architecture, arts, crafts and decorative arts
In the early 20th century, Charolette Perriand revolutionized furniture design. What spefic features of her design consituted a radical departure from the conventional furniture of time?
use of industrial materials
