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Final I Flashcards

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La Maison Carrée, 16 BC, Nimes,
France. One of the most well
preserved Roman temples in the
world.

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The Griswold House, Newport, Rhode Island, 1864. Richard Morris Hunt, Architect. First balloon framed house in RI. Stick style.

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Louis Comfort Tiffany’s studio

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Palau Güell

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Sir John Soane, Architect.
1794, Tyringham Gatehouse

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The White House, neoclassical (Greek Revival)

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Sir John Soane’s Neoclassical Bank of England, London, 1788-1834.

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All Saints Church, London, William Butterfield, 1859

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Henry Hobson Richardson. Bold, masculine, broad.

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Etienne Louis Boullée’s Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton, 1784.

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Olana, Frederic Church, Calvert Vaux.

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Sainte Genevieve Library, Paris, by Henri Labrouste. Finished 1850.

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The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, 1815-21, John Nash

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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1876, designed by Frank Furness.

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The Love Song by Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne Jones, 1868

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Who wrote The Seven Lamps of Architecture?

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John Ruskin

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Who wrote The Stones of Venice?

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John Ruskin

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The Biltmore, North Carolina, Richard Morris Hunt, 1889-91.

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La Sagrada Familia, by Antoni Gaudi, 1883-present.

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The Charnley Persky House, Adler and Sullivan,1891-92. Interior by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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The Charnley Persky House, Adler and Sullivan,1891-92. Interior by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Roebling’s 1867 design for the Brooklyn
Bridge.

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First Bank of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Henry Latrobe.

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The British Museum, 1831, designed by Sir Robert Smirke

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Morris Chair as produced by Morris &
Co.

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Ochre Point, Newport, McKim, Mead
and White. Shingle Style.

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The Library at the University of Pennsylvania by Frank Furness, 1888.

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Interior of the Fisher Library, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia by Frank Furness.

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Philadelphia City Hall, Second Empire

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John Wellborn Root, 1888, Lakeview Presbyterian Church, Chicago.
Shingle Style.

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James McNeill Whistler, Symphony in White numbers One, Two and Three.

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by Louis Comfort Tiffany

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Menier Chocolate Factory, curtain wall construction

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Shingle Style. Bruce Price, Tuxedo Park

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The Red House, designed by Philip Webb in collaboration with William Morris who lived there. 1860.

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The Oak Leaf and the Ellipse.

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The Casino, Newport, McKim, Mead and White, 1879. The first Shingle Style building.

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The design watercolors of Edward
William Godwin from the 1860s. Godwin, along with Oscar Wilde and James
Whistler, were the founders of the Aesthetic Movement.

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Grain Elevator

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Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass

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William Morris designs for wallpaper

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The Federal Style furniture of
Samuel McIntire, Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1800 1810.

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The Sisters and Brothers Residence Hall at Mount Lebanon Shaker Village.

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“The ornament should appear as if it had come forth from the very substance of the material and was there by the same right that a flower appears amid the leaves of the parent plant”. -Louis Sullivan

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Hôtel Tassel, Victor Horta, 1891.
Brussels, Belgium.

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The Sussex chair, designed by Philip Webb in 1860, an extremely popular chair produced by the tens of thousands by Morris and Company.

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The Dakota, 72nd Street and
Central Park West, Henry J. Hardenberg,
Architect.

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The 1826 Round Stone Barn at Hancock Shaker Village

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Godwin’s furniture.

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William Watts Sherman house, 1875,
Newport, Henry Hobson Richardson

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Louis Comfort Tiffany

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Newport County Courthouse, Newport, Rhode Island

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Low House, Bristol, Rhode Island, 1886, designed by McKim, Mead and
White.

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Marshall Field Warehouse, 1887,
Henry Hobson Richardson, in the
Richardsonian Romanesque Style.
Chicago.

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The Auditorium Building by Adler and Sullivan, Chicago, 1889.

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Interior of the Auditorium Building.

55
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Tiffany

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Henry Bessemer invented a modern way of making what in large quantities?

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Steel

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The Veterans Room, L.C. Tiffany and Associated Artists. 1881.

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The Great London Exhibition, ‘The Crystal Palace’ designed by Joseph Paxton

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The masculine dining room vs. the
feminine “withdrawing” room.

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What is the name of Jenney’s first proto skyscraper?

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The Leiter Building, Chicago.

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Fonthill Abbey, 1813.

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Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. 1889.

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A bootleg house, Oak Park, by Frank Lloyd
Wright. 1892.

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Bricks are made the same way as what?

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Terra Cotta

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The Peacock Room by James McNeill Whistler

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Augustus St. Gaudens, the most important American sculptor of the nineteenth
century.

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Interior detail of the Hôtel Tassel, designed by Victor Horta, 1892.

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What is this man is making?

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Wrought iron

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Olana, Frederic Church, 1872 with
Calvert Vaux

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Huddlestone Arch, Central Park bridge, 1863. Calvert Vaux. Inspired Henry Hobson Richardson

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The interior of Butterfield’s masterpiece, All Saints Church, London. 1859.

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Ames Gate Lodge, 1880, by H. H. Richardson.

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Hand Carved wood details designed
by Louis Sullivan for the Auditorium
Building.

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Mark Twain House, Hartford

73
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Aluminum is made from what ore that was discovered in France in 1821?

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Bauxite

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The Auditorium Building, left, Marshall Field Warehouse, right.

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Second Meeting House, Mt. Lebanon Shaker Village, New Lebanon, New York.

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Who comprise the Trinity in the context of this class?

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Richardson, Sullivan and Wright.

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Isaac Bell House, Newport, by McKim, Mead and White, 1883.

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Thomas Crane Memorial Library, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1880, Henry Hobson Richardson

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Auditorium Building

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The Allegheny County Courthouse, Pittsburgh, Richardson, 1888.

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St. John’s Church, Petaluma, California.
Ernest Albert Coxhead, 1890.

82
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Reinforced concrete is simply the addition of . . .

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steel rebar to the wet concrete

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The Wainwright Building, St. Louis,
1890, Adler and Sullivan.

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The Wainwright Building

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The interior of the Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam. Painting by Johannes Vermeer, The Love Letter, 1670.

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The Rookery, Burnham and Root, 1888. Chicago. Root was principal designer.

87
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What does Terra Cotta mean in Italian?

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Baked Earth

88
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Interior ground floor and first floor of the Palau Güell

89
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Red House, from the back.

90
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The interior of the upper floor of the Sainte Genevieve Library.

91
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Candace Wheeler took over what important decorative arts company?

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Louis C. Tiffany and Associated Artists Company.

92
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What is the interior design style of the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue?

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Aesthetic Movement

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Mt. Monadnock, Jaffrey, New Hampshire

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Monadnock building

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Interior of the Rookery

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What was one of America’s important exports in the 19th century?

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Wealthy American women

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The interiors of the Mark Twain house, by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated Artists.

98
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Terra Cotta soldiers

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Cutaway view of reinforced concrete

100
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Eiffel’s support of the Statue of Liberty

101
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Terra Cotta samples

102
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St. Jean de Montmartre, 1892.
The first public structure built of steel reinforced concrete. Anatol Baudot

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William LeBaron Jenney’s Home Insurance Building, 1885.

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Trinity Church, Boston, H. H. Richardson, 1877.

105
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Monadnock Building

106
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When was the Great Chicago Fire?

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1871

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“The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.” -Antoni Gaudi
Interior, Sagrada Familia

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Exposition Universelle, Paris, May October 1889. Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille Prison featuring the new Eiffel Tower.

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Carson, Pirie, Scott Department
Store, 1899, Chicago. Louis Sullivan.

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