AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE Flashcards
1
Q
Who is the father of skyscrapers?
A
Louis Sullivan (1856 - 1924)
2
Q
- Known also as the ‘Commercial Style’
- Not a physical school but a term used to identify the group of architects active in Chicago during the later 1800s and early 1900s
- First to promote new technologies of steel-framed construction in commercial buildings
A
THE CHICAGO SCHOOL
3
Q
A NEW BUILDING TYPE/STYLE
A
Tall Office Block/ COMMERCIAL STYLE
4
Q
Louis Sullivan coined the phrase
A
Form Follows Function
5
Q
……………… is a type of futurist architecture influenced by car culture, jets, the Atomic Age and the Space Age. It originated in Southern California
A
Googie architecture
6
Q
Frank Lloyd Wright and his idea of an American Style
A
Understand the influences from his formative years, the development
of the Prairie Style house and Wright’s focal point on domesticity as
well as the importance of architecture and nature.
