Final I Flashcards
La Maison Carrée, 16 BC, Nimes,
France. One of the most well
preserved Roman temples in the
world.
The Griswold House, Newport, Rhode Island, 1864. Richard Morris Hunt, Architect. First balloon framed house in RI. Stick style.
Louis Comfort Tiffany’s studio
Palau Güell
Sir John Soane, Architect.
1794, Tyringham Gatehouse
The White House, neoclassical (Greek Revival)
Sir John Soane’s Neoclassical Bank of England, London, 1788-1834.
All Saints Church, London, William Butterfield, 1859
Henry Hobson Richardson. Bold, masculine, broad.
Etienne Louis Boullée’s Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton, 1784.
Olana, Frederic Church, Calvert Vaux.
Sainte Genevieve Library, Paris, by Henri Labrouste. Finished 1850.
The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, 1815-21, John Nash
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1876, designed by Frank Furness.
The Love Song by Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne Jones, 1868
Who wrote The Seven Lamps of Architecture?
John Ruskin
Who wrote The Stones of Venice?
John Ruskin
The Biltmore, North Carolina, Richard Morris Hunt, 1889-91.
La Sagrada Familia, by Antoni Gaudi, 1883-present.
The Charnley Persky House, Adler and Sullivan,1891-92. Interior by Frank Lloyd Wright.
The Charnley Persky House, Adler and Sullivan,1891-92. Interior by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Roebling’s 1867 design for the Brooklyn
Bridge.
First Bank of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Henry Latrobe.
The British Museum, 1831, designed by Sir Robert Smirke
Morris Chair as produced by Morris &
Co.
Ochre Point, Newport, McKim, Mead
and White. Shingle Style.
The Library at the University of Pennsylvania by Frank Furness, 1888.
Interior of the Fisher Library, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia by Frank Furness.
Philadelphia City Hall, Second Empire
John Wellborn Root, 1888, Lakeview Presbyterian Church, Chicago.
Shingle Style.
James McNeill Whistler, Symphony in White numbers One, Two and Three.
by Louis Comfort Tiffany
Menier Chocolate Factory, curtain wall construction
Shingle Style. Bruce Price, Tuxedo Park
The Red House, designed by Philip Webb in collaboration with William Morris who lived there. 1860.
The Oak Leaf and the Ellipse.
The Casino, Newport, McKim, Mead and White, 1879. The first Shingle Style building.
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.
Grain Elevator
Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass
William Morris designs for wallpaper
The Federal Style furniture of
Samuel McIntire, Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1800 1810.
The Sisters and Brothers Residence Hall at Mount Lebanon Shaker Village.
“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
Hôtel Tassel, Victor Horta, 1891.
Brussels, Belgium.
The Sussex chair, designed by Philip Webb in 1860, an extremely popular chair produced by the tens of thousands by Morris and Company.
The Dakota, 72nd Street and
Central Park West, Henry J. Hardenberg,
Architect.
The 1826 Round Stone Barn at Hancock Shaker Village
Godwin’s furniture.
William Watts Sherman house, 1875,
Newport, Henry Hobson Richardson
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Newport County Courthouse, Newport, Rhode Island
Low House, Bristol, Rhode Island, 1886, designed by McKim, Mead and
White.
Marshall Field Warehouse, 1887,
Henry Hobson Richardson, in the
Richardsonian Romanesque Style.
Chicago.
The Auditorium Building by Adler and Sullivan, Chicago, 1889.
Interior of the Auditorium Building.
Tiffany
Henry Bessemer invented a modern way of making what in large quantities?
Steel
The Veterans Room, L.C. Tiffany and Associated Artists. 1881.
The Great London Exhibition, ‘The Crystal Palace’ designed by Joseph Paxton
The masculine dining room vs. the
feminine “withdrawing” room.
What is the name of Jenney’s first proto skyscraper?
The Leiter Building, Chicago.
Fonthill Abbey, 1813.
Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. 1889.
A bootleg house, Oak Park, by Frank Lloyd
Wright. 1892.
Bricks are made the same way as what?
Terra Cotta
The Peacock Room by James McNeill Whistler
Augustus St. Gaudens, the most important American sculptor of the nineteenth
century.
Interior detail of the Hôtel Tassel, designed by Victor Horta, 1892.
What is this man is making?
Wrought iron
Olana, Frederic Church, 1872 with
Calvert Vaux
Huddlestone Arch, Central Park bridge, 1863. Calvert Vaux. Inspired Henry Hobson Richardson
The interior of Butterfield’s masterpiece, All Saints Church, London. 1859.
Ames Gate Lodge, 1880, by H. H. Richardson.
Hand Carved wood details designed
by Louis Sullivan for the Auditorium
Building.
Mark Twain House, Hartford
Aluminum is made from what ore that was discovered in France in 1821?
Bauxite
The Auditorium Building, left, Marshall Field Warehouse, right.
Second Meeting House, Mt. Lebanon Shaker Village, New Lebanon, New York.
Who comprise the Trinity in the context of this class?
Richardson, Sullivan and Wright.
Isaac Bell House, Newport, by McKim, Mead and White, 1883.
Thomas Crane Memorial Library, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1880, Henry Hobson Richardson
Auditorium Building
The Allegheny County Courthouse, Pittsburgh, Richardson, 1888.
St. John’s Church, Petaluma, California.
Ernest Albert Coxhead, 1890.
Reinforced concrete is simply the addition of . . .
steel rebar to the wet concrete
The Wainwright Building, St. Louis,
1890, Adler and Sullivan.
The Wainwright Building
The interior of the Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam. Painting by Johannes Vermeer, The Love Letter, 1670.
The Rookery, Burnham and Root, 1888. Chicago. Root was principal designer.
What does Terra Cotta mean in Italian?
Baked Earth
Interior ground floor and first floor of the Palau Güell
Red House, from the back.
The interior of the upper floor of the Sainte Genevieve Library.
Candace Wheeler took over what important decorative arts company?
Louis C. Tiffany and Associated Artists Company.
What is the interior design style of the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue?
Aesthetic Movement
Mt. Monadnock, Jaffrey, New Hampshire
Monadnock building
Interior of the Rookery
What was one of America’s important exports in the 19th century?
Wealthy American women
The interiors of the Mark Twain house, by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated Artists.
Terra Cotta soldiers
Cutaway view of reinforced concrete
Eiffel’s support of the Statue of Liberty
Terra Cotta samples
St. Jean de Montmartre, 1892.
The first public structure built of steel reinforced concrete. Anatol Baudot
William LeBaron Jenney’s Home Insurance Building, 1885.
Trinity Church, Boston, H. H. Richardson, 1877.
Monadnock Building
When was the Great Chicago Fire?
1871
“The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.” -Antoni Gaudi
Interior, Sagrada Familia
Exposition Universelle, Paris, May October 1889. Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille Prison featuring the new Eiffel Tower.
Carson, Pirie, Scott Department
Store, 1899, Chicago. Louis Sullivan.
