Architecture II: Philip Johnson and Bauhaus

Question 1

Name for Philip Johnson’s home that he designed, after the material much of it is made of. It includes a gatehouse known as “Da Monsta.” The landscape around it is inspired by the painting “Funeral of Phocion”.

Answer 1

Glass House

Question 2

City in Connecticut where the Glass House of Philip Johnson is located.

Answer 2

New Canaan

Question 3

Part of Johnson’s Glass House inspired by the Tomb of Agamemnon (Mycenean structure also called the Treasury of Atreus)

Answer 3

Painting Gallery

Question 4

Part of the Glass House which is a monument to Philip Johnson’s good friend.

Answer 4

(Lincoln) Kirstein Tower

Question 5

One of Johnson’s most famous building’s. A tall tower mocked as ‘Chippendale’ because of how the top of it has open pediments that kinda resemble chippendale furniture.

Answer 5

550 Madison Avenue (Formerly Sony Tower, and before that the AT&T Building)

Question 6

Truly awesome cathedral designed by Philip Johnson with John Burgee in Orange County California.

Answer 6

Christ Cathedral (Previously Crystal Cathedral, a much better name imo)

Question 7

Tallest building in Minnesota, designed by Philip Johnson, famous for its stepbacks called “zogs.” At it’s base is the famous crystal court.

Answer 7

Investors Diversified Services (IDS) Center

Question 8

Founder and first director of the Bauhaus who pioneered modernism and internationalism.

Answer 8

Walter Gropius

Question 9

Architect who worked with Walter Gropius in Britain and helped him escape the Nazis.

Answer 9

Maxwell Fry

Question 10

Pretty cool looking shoe factory designed by Gropius with help from Adolf Meyer. Inspired by the AEG Turbine Factory.

Answer 10

Fagus Factory

Question 11

Walter Gropius was one of the main leaders of a group that designed this middle eastern university, once a dreamy place that has now fallen into decline because of the sad death of the country it is in.

Answer 11

Baghdad University

Question 12

Parthenon inspired embassy building designed by Gropius.

Answer 12

U.S Embassy in Athens

Question 13

Tall building designed by Gropius along with Pietro Belluschi which used to be the HQ of Pan-Am.

Answer 13

MetLife Building

Question 14

Three centers of the Bauhaus

Answer 14

Weimar, Dessau, Berlin

Question 15

Gropius designed Bauhaus school in a certain city, famous symbol of modernism.

Answer 15

Bauhaus Dessau

Question 16

Second director of Bauhaus after Gropius who eventually left due to his communism to form the ‘Left Column’ in Moscow. He is most well known for designing the ADGB Trade Union School.

Answer 16

Hannes Meyer

Question 17

Last Director of Bauhaus

Answer 17

Mies van der Rohe