27. Art Moderne Flashcards
Sketch how the RCA meets the ground:
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Art Moderne was symbolized by the use of what form?
teardrop
List two aspects of the design of Rockefeller Center that contribute to its success as an urban space:
plaza; holds the street edge
The roof terraces in Rockefeller Center were said to be influenced by what ancient precedent?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Briefly describe how Hood developed the massing of the RCA Building:
pushes the building to meet the elevator shafts
List one exterior detail that allowed the Empire State Building to be constructed so quickly:
clip-on glass panels
What determined the locations of the setbacks in the RCA building?
elevators
________ was the American architect whose urban idea of the tower in the park paralleled Le Corbusier’s proposal for the city for 3 million.
Hood
Norman Bel Geddes’ trademark motif was the _____.
teardrop
The designer in charge of the initial planning of Rockefeller Center was _____.
Hood
“Far from being a handicap, this discipline of being obliged to make a project stand on its own financial feet and to submit its details and materials to a constant critical analysis, leads to honesty and integrity of design. Under this stimulation the cobwebs of whimsy, taste, fashion, and vanity are brushed aside, and the architect finds himself face to face with the essential elements that go to make real architecture and real beauty.” This is a quote by ______________________.
Hood
Name three major industrial designers who were active in the 1930s.
Norman Bel Geddes, R Buckminister Fuller, Raymond Loewy
The apparent precedent for the massing of the Empire State Building was:
Carew Tower
The designer of the Dymaxion House was _______.
Fuller
The one word that best described the forms used to style Art Moderne designs was ______.
streamline
______ was the term used to describe the method of wrapping objects with sheet metal in an attempt to give them a futurist image.
Modernizing
“Why not try nothing” was the rationale of ________________________ for the design of what building?
Hood; New York Daily News Building
“Dymaxion” was the term coined by ________ which meant _______.
Fuller; dynamic maximum
List three differences between Art Deco buildings and Art Moderne buildings:
vertical vs. horizontal
warm vs. cool
angular vs. curved
Sketch the plan concept of the Johnson Wax complex:
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s design of the Johnson Wax Building can be best described as his interpretation of what style?
Art Moderne
The major design innovation in the Usonian houses that influenced the design of post-WW II suburban tract homes was ______.
family kitchen - the kitchen and dining room combined
List two major details that Wright used in the Usonian house to control construction costs:
brick interiors; only three types of manufactured windows
The “Usonian” house was designed by _________.
FLW
Broadacre City was a project envisioned by ______.
FLW
The client for Wright’s “Fallingwater” house was ________.
Kauffmann
Sketch the plan of a “cartesian skyscraper” and explain the reason for its configuration:
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Name two differences between Le Corbusier’s design for the City for 3 million and his Radiant City:
housing farther away from office zone; a more linear form
Where did Le Corbusier get the idea for linear housing and cities?
Russia
Sketch the plan of Ville Radieuse. What project was conceived as an experimental fragment of VR?
. Villa Contempraine
Define Le Corbusier’s idea of “a redent:”
linear extensions of multi-story communal housing
Le Corbusier’s utopian city plan developed in the 1930s was named
Ville Radieuse
List two design ideas incorporated in Ville Radieuse that were a direct response to the new battle techniques used in WW I:
lifts buildings off of ground – response to poison gas
spreading out of buildings – response to threat of aerial bombing
Le Corbusier first used the all-glass wall in what project?
Centrosoyuz Headquarters
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:
glass box over trees; buildings hold street edge
The trademark image of the 1939 World’s Fair was the ______.
trylon and perisphere
