PPT 19 - Final Exam

Question 1

Modern architecture

Answer 1

Simplification and creation of ornament from the structure and the theme of the building
Used concrete, steel, glass, and open floor plans

Question 2

Adolf Loos

1870-1933

Answer 2

One of the most important and influential Austrian/Czeck architects of European modern architecture

Question 3

Steiner house

Answer 3

Vienna
1910
Orthogonal and symmetric

Question 4

Moller house

Answer 4

Vienna
1939
Asymmetrical

Question 5

Müller house

Answer 5

Prague, Czech Republic

1930

Question 6

Peter Behrens

Answer 6

German architect and designer

1868-1940

Question 7

Three figures who are considered the masters of the modern architecture

Answer 7

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe (1886-1969)

Question 8

Frank Lloyd Wright

Answer 8

Known as greatest American architect of all time

Question 9

Le Corbusier 
(Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris)

Answer 9

1887-1946

Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanism, writer and painter

Question 10

Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

Answer 10

1886-1969

Prominent German-American architect

Question 11

Art Deco

Answer 11

International art design movement that originated in France in 1920s and was popular until 1940s

Geometric motifs
Curvilinear forms

Question 12

Eileen Gray

Answer 12

1878-1976

Irish furniture designer, interior decorator, and architect

Question 13

Walter Gropius

Answer 13

1883-1969

German architect and founder of the Bauhaus school originally in Weimar and later in Dessau