39- Mid 20th Century Modernism in US

Question 1

Resor house

Answer 1

-van der Rohe -Jackson Hole, wyoming -1938 -this building got him the job at IIT

Question 2

new campus of IIT

Answer 2

-chicago IL -1939-56

Question 3

Alumni memorial Hall

Answer 3

-Mies

Question 4

Crown Hall

Answer 4

-1952-56

Question 5

Farmsworth residence

Answer 5

1954 Plano IL -built on a flood plain, needed to be raised

Question 6

Lakeshore drive apartments

Answer 6

Chicago, 1950-52 -Mies -most important large scale residence -looks like offices

Question 7

Owens Coming Fiberglass

Answer 7

NYC, 1946-47 -SOM -early corporate modernism

Question 8

Lever House

Answer 8

NYC, 1952 -SOM -Setback Law of 1916 -Green space and public access at street level

Question 9

United Nations complex

Answer 9

Harrison & Abramovitz -1947-53 -Secretariat in slab tower -Assembly in lower building

Question 10

UN Assembly Building

Answer 10

a part of the complex

Question 11

Seagram Building

Answer 11

-van der Rohe with Philip Johnson -1954-58 NYC -T Plan -corporate modernism