Famous Architects Flashcards

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Best known for his use of inexpensive materials and unfinished style for his eccentric buildings and both of his parents were art lovers

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Frank Gehry

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What year did Gehry received his degree in Architecture from USC?

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1954

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When did Gehry redesigned his private residence in Santa Monica, C.A., USA?

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1978

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What year did Gehry received a Pritzker Prize?

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1989

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What year did Gehry received Wolf Prize in Art and Imperial Award in Architecture?

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1992

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He was the first recipient of the Lillian Gish Award in 1994.

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Frank Gehry

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When was the completion and opening of the new Guggenheim Museum in Spain (archi: Frank Gehry)?

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1997

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In what year did they unveil the finished Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA (archi: Gehry)?

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2003

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What are Gehry’s notable works?

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Vitra Wiggle Chair
Gehry Residence (Santa Monica)
Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain—1997)
Walt Disney Concert Hall (LA)
Beekman Tower (New York, USA—2011)
Brentwood Collection
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10
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Who is the most prominent contemporary female architect?

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Zaha Hadid

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Known for her radical deconstructivism design; her style includes fragmentation, instability, and movement; inspired by Kazimir Malevich and supermatists art style movement

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Zaha Hadid

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When did Hadid’s interest in architecture started?

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When they went to ancient Sumer Region in Southern Iraq

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13
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When did Hadid join the Metropolitan Architects?

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1977

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When did Hadid started her own architecture firm—Zaha Hadid Architects?

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1980

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When did Hadid receive her first award—Gold Medal Architectural Design for her British Architecture?

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1982

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In 2004, what did Hadid receive?

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First woman and one of the youngest Pritzker Prize awardee

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In what year did Zaha Hadid’s design for the Olympic Aquatic Center for the 2012 Olympic games?

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2005

18
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What was the only government building Hadid designed in 2016?

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Port Authority (Antwerp, Belgium)

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What were Hadid’s notable works?

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Vitra Fire Station (West Rhein, Germany—1989-1993)
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (2003)
Olympic Aquatic Center (London, UK—2012)
Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center (Baku, Azerbaijan)
Jockey Club Innovation Tower (Hong Kong—2007-2014)

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An architect, a painter, a designer urbanist of the most genial ones of all time

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Le CORBUSIER

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What is the full name of Le Corbusier?

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Charles-Edouard Jeanneret

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At what age did Le Corbusier joined the local school of art?

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14

23
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What year did Le Corbusier have a an architecture project with his archi teacher—René Chapallaz?

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1907-1908 (Paris)

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What are Le Corbusier’s notable works?

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House Dom-ino (1914)
—influencer: Cubism and Purism
Villa Savoye, Poissy (1928-1931)
—glass house

25
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Recipient of Pritzker Prize in 1995; he is into woodcrafts inhis esrly childhood; he had a brief stint as a boxer; he began his self-education by being an apprentice; his influence include Le Corbusier

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Tadao Ando

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What are Tadao Ando’s notble works?

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Church of the Light (Osaka)
Liangzhou Village (China)
Hansel Museum (Korea)
27
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Known as modernist and notable for simple geometry; uninspired by the Beaux-Arts trad; Chinese-American archi; worked with Walter Gropins

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I.M Pei

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What is the full na,e lf I.M. Pei?

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Ieoh Ming Pei

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In what year did I.M. Pei receive his Bachelor’s degree?

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1940

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What are Pei’s notable works?

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Le grand Louvre
Bank of Hong Kong
JFK Library
Museum of Islamic Art

31
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Who are the famous architects tackled?

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Frank Gehry
Zaha Hadid
Le Corbusier
Tadao Ando
I.M. Pei
Herzog & de Meuron
32
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When was the Maxxi building awarded the Stirling prize? (Zaha Hadid)

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2010

33
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What did the Heyday Aliyev Cultural Center won in 2014?

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Design Museum Design of the Year Award

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What was given to Zaha Hadid in 2012?

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Honor of Dame Commander of the order of the British Empire

35
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Who said this: “In all my works, light is an important controlling factor”?

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Tadao Ando

36
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When did Frank Gehry established his own firm, Gehry Associate (now Gehry Partners, LLP)?

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1962