35- Developments in France, Holland, and Germany after WW1

Question 1

Charles Eduard Jeanneret

Answer 1

-Le Corbusier -worked in Paris -founded magazine -learned reinforced concrete from Auguste Perret

Question 2

Rue Franklin Apartments

Answer 2

-Auguste Perret -Paris, 1902 -unconventional layout -facade is covered in terra cotta

Question 3

Dom-ino frame

Answer 3

-Le Corbusier -1914 -prefab system of enclosing walls -no load bearing walls

Question 4

Citrohan house

Answer 4

-Le Corbusier -1922 -

Question 5

Neoplasticism

Answer 5

utopian idea about an expression generated by light and sound (De Stijl movement)

Question 6

Schroeder House

Answer 6

-Gerrit Rietveldt -Utrecht, 1924

Question 7

Skyscraper competition

Answer 7

-Ludwig Mies -1920s, Berlin -volumes enclosed by glass curtain walls -use of glass for reflectivity

Question 8

Monument to Rosa Luxemburg and Hans Liebknecht

Answer 8

-Mies van der Rohe -Central Municipal Cemetary, Berlin, 1926 -commemorates Communist party founders

Question 9

Project for a Brick Villa

Answer 9

-Mies van der Rohe -1924 -heavy influence from FL Wright -organization of brick masses and planes

Question 10

Project for a Concrete Office Building

Answer 10

-Mies van der Rohe -1922-23

Question 11

Project for reorganization of Potsdamer Platz

Answer 11

-van der Rohe -Berlin, 1925 -preference for simple volumes with size and scale variation

Question 12

Administrative block Fagus Shoelast Factory

Answer 12

-Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer -1911-1912

Question 13

The Bauhaus

Answer 13

-Walter Gropius -Dessau, 1925-26 -proto curtain wall system that encloses main workshops -