Lecture 28: Exodus Flashcards
The “Barcelona Chair” was designed by _____________.
Mies
List three important design ideas Mies employed in the Barcelona Pavilion.
- asymmetry
- reflection
- free-standing planes
The beach house in Newport Beach for Dr. Phillip Lovell was designed by __________.
Schindler
Upon his arrival in the US, Gropius assumed the directorship of the architecture school at ____________, while Mies eventually was named head of the school at ____________.
Harvard, IIT
List two requirements that had to be met by a building in order to qualify to be included in MOMA’s 1932 “international Style” exhibition.
- architecture as volume instead of mass
- no arbitrary ornament to the building
The projects most often associated with Nazi Germany were designed by architect ___________.
Speer
The only totalitarian regime in Pre-WWII Europe that did not adopt a literal Neo-Classicism as the official style of the state was in what country?
Italy
The Lovell Health House was designed by ______________.
Neutra
How did the elevation of the McGraw-Hill Building differ from other skyscrapers designed by Hood?
emphasized the horizontal and had continuous spandrels
List two architects who immigrated to the U.S. BEFORE Hitler rose to power who were early practitioners of the International Style in the U.S.
- Schindler
2. Neutra
List two architects who immigrated to the U.S. AFTER Hitler rose to power who were early practitioners of the International Style in the U.S.
- Mies
2. Gropius
The two Austrian architects who came to the U.S. and worked with Wright were:
Schindler and Neutra
The first European architect to bring the International Style to California was ____________.
Schindler
What American is credited with coining the term “International Style”?
Johnson
Who was the last director of the German Bauhaus?
Mies
Name two skyscrapers built before WWII that exhibited the International Style in some of their parts, list the architect of each.
- PSFS Building - Howe and Lescaze
2. McGraw Hill Building - Hood
The first skyscraper in the U.S. to exhibit the massing and the exterior language of the European Style was the ____________.
PSFS Building
The two curators of the MOMA show, “The International Style,” were ______________.
Johnson and Hitchcock
The McGraw-Hill Building was designed by _____________.
Hood
The Casa del Fascio was designed by __________.
Terragni
Adolf Hitler chose __________ architecture as symbolic of the Third Reich,
Neo-classical
The Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building was designed by _____________.
Howe and Lescaze
What does Larson credit for the eventual appearance of columns in the Barcelona pavilion?
influence of Nietzche
