Key Architects: The Modern Movement

Question 1

Eileen Gray

Answer 1

1878-1976.

E-1027, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, 1924-29 (with Jean Badovici).

Question 2

Bruno Taut

Answer 2

1881-1955.

Arbetskraft für Kunst, Deutscher Werkbund.

Hufeisensiedlung, Berlin, 1925-1930.

Onkel-Toms-Hütte, Wilskistrasse, Berlin.

Question 3

Walter Gropius

Answer 3

1883-1969.

Bauhaus building and the Master houses, Dessau, 1925-1926.

Question 4

Vladimir Tatlin

Answer 4

1885-1953.

Constructivism

Monument of the Third International, 1919-1920.

Question 5

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Answer 5

1886-1969.

Villa Tugendhat, Brno, 1928-1930.

Barcelona Pavilion, 1929, World Exhibition.

Question 6

Le Corbusier

Answer 6

1887-1956.

Houses at Werkbund-Exhibition Weissenhof, Stuttgart, 1926-1927.

Villa Stein, Garches, Paris, 1926-1928.

Question 7

Erich Mendelsohn

Answer 7

1887-1953.

Expressionism.

Einstein Tower, 1919-1921.

Schocken Department Store, Stuttgart 1926-1928.

De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, England, 1934-1935.

Question 8

Antonio Sant’Elia

Answer 8

1888-1916.

Italian Futurism.

Question 9

Gerrit Rietveld

Answer 9

1888-1964.

De Stijl.

Rietvald Schröder House, Utrecht 1924.

Question 10

El Lissitzky

Answer 10

1890-1941.

Constructivism.

Question 11

Konstantin Melnikov

Answer 11

1890-1974.

Constructivism.

Question 12

J.J.P Oud

Answer 12

1890-1963.

De Stijl.

Question 13

Ivan Léonidov

Answer 13

1902-1959.

Constructivism.