Midterm

Question 1

Answer 1

Henri Labrouste

Bibliotheque Sainte Genevieve

Paris, 1838-50

(reading room)

Question 2

Answer 2

Charles Garnier,

Paris Opera House,

Paris, 1861-76

(interior and exterior)

Question 3

Answer 3

Gustave Eiffel,

Eiffel Tower,

Paris, 1889

Question 4

Answer 4

Joseph Paxton,

Crystal Palace,

London, 1851

Question 5

Answer 5

George Gilbert Scott,

St. Pancras Station,

London, 1863-7

(interior and exterior)

Question 6

Answer 6

. Philip Webb and William Morris,

Red House,

Bexley Heath, England,

1859-60

(interior and exterior)

Question 7

Answer 7

. Philip Webb and William Morris,

Red House,

Bexley Heath, England,

1859-60

(interior and exterior)

Question 8

Answer 8

Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald,

Hill House,

Glasgow, 1902-3

(interior and exterior)

Question 9

Answer 9

Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald,

Hill House,

Glasgow, 1902-3

(interior and exterior)

Question 10

Answer 10

Henry Hobson Richardson,

Marshall Field Wholesale Store,

Chicago, 1885-7

Question 11

Answer 11

Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler,

Guaranty Building,

Buffalo, 1894-6

The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered” (1896) he writes:

“It is the prevailing law of all things…that form ever follows function.”

Question 12

Answer 12

Frank Lloyd Wright,

Robie House, Chicago,

1908

(interior and exterior)

Question 13

Answer 13

Frank Lloyd Wright,

Robie House, Chicago,

1908

(interior and exterior)

Question 14

Answer 14

Frank Lloyd Wright,

Unity Temple,

Oak Park, IL, 1906

(interior and exterior)

Question 15

Answer 15

Frank Lloyd Wright,

Unity Temple,

Oak Park, IL, 1906

(interior and exterior)

Question 16

Answer 16

Frank Lloyd Wright,

Falling Water,

Bear Run, PA,

1937

(exterior)

Question 17

Answer 17

John and Washington Roebling,

Brooklyn Bridge, New York,

1867-83

Question 18

Answer 18

Cass Gilbert,

Woolworth Building, New York,

1913

(interior and exterior)

Question 19

Answer 19

Cass Gilbert,

Woolworth Building, New York,

1913

(interior and exterior)

Question 20

Answer 20

York and Sawyer,

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York,

1924

Question 21

Answer 21

Victor Horta,

Tassel House,

Brussels, 1893

(interior, central stairway)

Question 22

Answer 22

Victor Horta,

Maison du Peuple,

Brussels, 1899

(exterior and auditorium)

Question 23

Answer 23

Victor Horta,

Maison du Peuple,

Brussels, 1899

(exterior and auditorium)

Question 24

Answer 24

Otto Wagner,

Post Office Savings Bank,

Vienna, 1904

(interior and exterior)

Question 25

Answer 25

Otto Wagner, Majolika House, Vienna, 1898-9

Question 26

Answer 26

Josef Maria Olbrich, Vienna Secession Building, Vienna, 1898-9

Question 27

Answer 27

Adolf Loos, Goldman and Salatsch Building, Vienna, 1909

Question 28

Answer 28

Adolf Loos, Steiner House, 1910 (front and back views)

Question 29

Answer 29

Gerrit Rietveld, Schroder House, Utrecht, 1923-4 (interior and exterior)

Question 30

Answer 30

Gerrit Rietveld, Schroder House, Utrecht, 1923-4 (interior and exterior)

Question 31

Answer 31

Peter Behrens, AEG Turbine Factory, Berlin, 1908-9

Question 32

Answer 32

Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer, Fagus Shoe-last Factory, Alfeld, 1911-12

Question 33

Answer 33

Bruno Taut, Glass Pavilion, Cologne, 1914

Question 34

Answer 34

Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Building, Dessau, Germany, 1925

Question 35

Answer 35

Le Corbusier, Maison Domino, 1914

Question 36

Answer 36

Le Corbusier, Villa Schwob, Chaux-de-Fonds, 1916

Question 37

Answer 37

Le Corbusier, Pavilion L’Esprit Nouveau, Paris, 1925

Question 38

Answer 38

Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy, France, 1929 (interior and exterior)

Question 39

Beaux-Arts:

Answer 39

mixe of classical principles of symmetry and design with extreme, over-the-top ornamentation

Question 40

antica

Answer 40

imitates the style of the ancients

Question 41

Gesamtkunstwerk

Answer 41

total work of art, ideal work of art, universal artwork, synthesis of the arts, comprehensive artwork, all-embracing art form or total artwork

Question 42

Conditions for the skyscrapers:

Answer 42

1) Rapid population growth in city centers 2) Steel frame development (around 1850) 3) Invention of the elevator 4) Improving fire proofing techniques -- metal should not be exposed could burn 5) Rising property value making land more expensive