Architecture Flashcards
Designer of White House
James Hoban
Designer of US Capital and Boston State House
Charles Bulfinch
Designer of Woolworth Building in NY City
Gilbert Cass
Designer of TWA terminal at JFK airport
Eero Saarinen
Designer of World Trade Center arch
Minoru Yamasaki
Designer of Taj Mahal
Shah Jihan
Designer of Bauhaus building (Germany)
Walter Gropius
Designer of St. Paul’s Cathedral - 1669
Christopher Wren
Designer of Imperial Hotel in Japan
Frank Lloyd Wright
Designer of Barcelona Chair
Mies Van Der Rohe
He influenced Frank Lloyd Wright
Louis Henry Sullivan
Designer of Layout for Washington D.C.
Pierre L’Enfant
Designer of Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright
Designer of Central Park in NY City
Charles Law Olmstead
Designer of Geodesic dome
R. Buckminster Fuller
Designer of Glass Pyramid at the Louvre
I.M. Pei
Designer of West tower of Westminster Abbey
Christopher Wren
Designer of Vietnam War Memorial
Maya Lin
Designer of Tulip Chair
Eero Saarinen
Covered walk supported by columns
Portico
Swiss architect who designed houses on stilts
Le Corbusier
Architectural style popular in the 1920’s and 30’s
Art Deco (Chrysler Building)
Architectural style popular between 1875-1914
Art Nouveau
Mid-nineteenth century English Style
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
