Key Architects: Concrete and Glass - the Birth of the Modern Building

Question 1

William le Baron Jenney

Answer 1

1832-1907.

First Leiter Building, 1878-79.

Home Insurance Building, Chicago, 1883-85.

Question 2

Otto Wagner

Answer 2

1841-1918.

Jugend

Postal Office Savings Bank Building, Vienna, 1894-1902.

Question 3

Martin Nyrop

Answer 3

1849-1921.

Copenhagen City Hall, 1892-1905.

Question 4

Louis Sullivan

Answer 4

1856-1924.

“Form follows function”

Wainwright Building 1890-1891.

Chicago Auditorium Theatre, 1889.

Question 5

Victor Horta (1861-1947)
Henry van de Velde (1863-1957)
Hector Guimard (1867-1942)
Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908)
Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956)

Answer 5

1861-1947.

Art Nouveau, The Vienna Secession.

Question 6

Peter Behrens

Answer 6

1868-1940.

Deutscher Werkbund.

AEG Turbine Factory, 1909.

Question 7

Adolf Loos

Answer 7

1870-1933.

Goldman & Salatsch building, 1909.

Question 8

Eliel Saarinen

Answer 8

1873-1950.

Helsinki Railway Station, 1905-1914.

Question 9

Auguste Perret

Answer 9

1874-1954.

Théatre des Champs-Elysées, 1911-1913.

Question 10

Bruno Taut

Answer 10

1880-1938.

Deutscher Werkbund.

Hufeisensiedlung, Berlin, 1925-1930.

Onkel-Toms-Hütte, Wilskistrasse, Berlin.

Question 11

Walter Gropius

Answer 11

1883-1969.

Bauhaus.

Fagus Factory, Alfeld a.d. Leine, Germany, 1911-14 (with Adolf Meyer).