J- Historical Figures

Question 0

Kevin Lynch

Answer 0

Urban planner from New England
1950s and 1960s
Book: Image of the City

Way finding

Question 1

Christopher Wren

Answer 1

British
Design st. Paul’s cathedral 1710
52 London church

Question 2

Christopher Alexander

Answer 2

California 1970s

Book: A Pattern Language

Regular people to design their own homes

Question 3

Jane Jacobs

Answer 3

Writer activist
1950s and 60s New York City

Book: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Abolish zoning laws and restore free market. Natural surveillance of people in their neighborhood

Question 4

Camillo Sitte

Answer 4

Late 1800s Europe

Book: City planning according to artistic principles

Quality of urban space is more important than architectural forms

Question 5

Baron Haussmann

Answer 5

Paris mid 1800s

Modernize Paris under Napoleon III

boulevards and military movement

Question 6

Tony Garnier

Answer 6

Leon France 1920s

Book: Cite Industrial

Response to industrial revolution
City function zoned 4 categories:
Leisure, industry, work, transportation

No churches or government buildings so man can rule himself

Question 7

Sir Ebenezer Howard

Answer 7

Writer 1910s London

Book: Garden cities of tomorrow

Suburban towns, surrounded by belts of agriculture connected by ring of rail transportation surrounding a large central city

Question 8

Pierre Charles L’Enfant

Answer 8

Late 1700s New York

Baroque Washington DC plans

Question 9

Daniel Burnham

Answer 9

Early 1900s Chicago

Director of Columbian Expo

Skyscrapers:
Masonic Temple building
Flat iron building
Union station DC
Monadnock, reliance building, rookery offices

Question 10

William LeBaron Jenny

Answer 10

Late 1800s Chicago

Designed the home insurance building
First fully metal framed building
8 stories

Question 11

Clarence Stein

Answer 11

Early 1900s New York

Garden city movement USA

With Henry right designed Rayburn, New Jersey

Superblock layout with total separation automobile/pedestrian

Question 12

Lewis Mumford

Answer 12

Historian 1950s New York

Human language and symbols

Medieval city is ideal urban plan

Question 13

Frederick Law Olmsted

Answer 13

Landscape architect

late 1800s New York City

Central park & Prospect Park

Question 14

Clarence Perry

Answer 14

Planner 1920s New York City

Book: The Neighborhood Theory
Self-contained neighborhoods in industrial cities
Arterial streets perimeter of neighborhood

Question 15

Patrick Geddes

Answer 15

Late 1800s France

Concept of region
Residents are more important than Rich

Question 16

Le Corbusier

Answer 16

1910 to 1950 France

Functionality without ornamentation
Five points of architecture:
Pilotis 
Free façade
Open plan
Ribbon windows
Roof garden

Question 17

The modular

Based on:

Answer 17

The human body
The golden ratio
Fibonacci numbers
And the double unit

Question 18

Louis Sullivan

Answer 18

Late 1800s Chicago

Father of modern skyscraper
Mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 19

Frank Lloyd Wright

Answer 19

Early 1900s Chicago

The Prairie school
Structures built in harmony with humanity and its environment

Question 20

Buckminster Fuller

Answer 20

Mid 1900s LA

Geodesic dome

Question 21

Walter Gropius

Answer 21

1910s - 1950s Germany/Boston

Bauhaus school
International style
Gesamtkunstwerk

Question 22

Ludwig Hilbersimer

Answer 22

1920s to 1950s Germany/Chicago

Book: City Plan
street hierarchy, safety for children
The new town center

Question 23

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Answer 23

1920s to 1950s Germany/Chicago

Question 24

Charles McKim

Answer 24

Late 1800s Germany/Boston

Beaux-Arts architecture to America:
Boston public library
Penn station
New York Herald building

Question 25

Philip Johnson

Answer 25

1940s to 2000 New England

Glasshouse
Seagram building