Modernism

Question 1

Answer 1

Gabriel Gueverkian

The garden of water and light

Art Deco exibition, Paris 1925

Question 2

Answer 2

Exposition Refreshment Garden

Robert Mallet-Stevens, and Jan and Joel Martel

Art Deco Exhibition, Paris 1925

Question 3

Answer 3

Checkerboard Garden

Gabriel Gueverkian

Villa de Noailles, Hyeres, France

1927

Question 4

Answer 4

Triangle Garden

Andre and Paul Vera

Villa Noailles, Hyeres, France

1927

Question 5

Answer 5

Fletcher Steele

Naumkeag, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

client- Mabel Choate

1928-1958

Question 6

Answer 6

The Wilshire Links (golf course)

Designers- Unites Artist Set Department

Beverly Hills, California

Client- Mary Pickford

1930

Question 7

Answer 7

German Pavilion- “The Barcelona Pavilion”

Designer- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Barcelona International Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain

1929

Question 8

Answer 8

Villa Savoye

Designer: Charles- Edouard Jeaneret-Gris

Poissy, France

1928-31

Villa Savoye is a modernist villa in Poissy, in the outskirts of Paris, France. It was designed by Swiss architects Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete

Question 9

Answer 9

Woodland Cemetery

Designers- Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz

Stockholm, Swedwn

1914-1940

Question 10

Answer 10

Paimio Sanitarium

Designer- Alvar Aalto

1929-1932

completely surrounded by forest, patient wings face south, trees brought up to terraces, gently terraced slope

Question 11

Answer 11

Alvar Aalto

Furniture and glassware design

early 1930s

Question 12

Answer 12

Donnell Garden

Sonoma, CA 1948

Thomas Church

Got a lot of press, garden designed before house, first deck with holes for trees

Design Principles: 1. unity of house and garden

2. practical areas related to decorative
3. economic and aesthetic simplicity
4. relation of parts to the whole - scale

Question 13

Answer 13

Miller Garden

Indiana 1955

Dan Kiley

Kiley was influenced by French royal gardens, formal near house, looser near creek

Question 14

Answer 14

Farmworker Housing by Farm Services Authority

Garret Eckbo

1940

Eckbo did more public/humanitarian design than Kiley or Rose, didn’t use walls - used vegetation instead, influenced by Kandinsky,

Question 15

Answer 15

Plaza y Fuentes del Bebedero de los Caballos

Mexico City 1959

Luis Barragan

Barragan was influenced by modernists, also traveled to france