Architecture Flashcards by Fred Schultz

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Designer of White House

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James Hoban

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Designer of US Capital and Boston State House

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Charles Bulfinch

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Designer of Woolworth Building in NY City

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Gilbert Cass

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Designer of TWA terminal at JFK airport

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Eero Saarinen

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Designer of World Trade Center arch

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Minoru Yamasaki

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Designer of Taj Mahal

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Shah Jihan

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Designer of Bauhaus building (Germany)

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Walter Gropius

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Designer of St. Paul’s Cathedral - 1669

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Christopher Wren

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Designer of Imperial Hotel in Japan

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Designer of Barcelona Chair

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Mies Van Der Rohe

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He influenced Frank Lloyd Wright

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Louis Henry Sullivan

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Designer of Layout for Washington D.C.

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Pierre L’Enfant

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Designer of Guggenheim Museum

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Designer of Central Park in NY City

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Charles Law Olmstead

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Designer of Geodesic dome

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R. Buckminster Fuller

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Designer of Glass Pyramid at the Louvre

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I.M. Pei

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Designer of West tower of Westminster Abbey

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Christopher Wren

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Designer of Vietnam War Memorial

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Maya Lin

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Designer of Tulip Chair

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Eero Saarinen

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Covered walk supported by columns

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Portico

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Swiss architect who designed houses on stilts

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Le Corbusier

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Architectural style popular in the 1920’s and 30’s

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Art Deco (Chrysler Building)

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Architectural style popular between 1875-1914

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Art Nouveau

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Mid-nineteenth century English Style

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Victorian

Gothic exterior beastly figures

Gargoyles

Architectural style of Notre Dame Cathedral

Gothic

Hagia Sofia architecture style

Byzantine

Designer of Presidential palace in Brasilia

Oscar Neimeyer

Central stone of an arch

Keystone

Riverboat - Bridge and Mississippi River jetty designer

James Eads

Covered arched walkway at a monastery

Cloister

"Flying" support

Buttress

Types of columns in architecture

Ionic; Doric; Corinthian

Designer of high pitched roof that bears his name

Francois Mansard

"Less is more style" in architecture

Mies Van der Rohe

Designer of Gateway Arch in St. Louis

Eero Saarinen

Designer of New Reich Chancellery

Albert Speer

Horizontal beam supported at only one end

Cantilever