Quiz3 Flashcards
This famous architect together with Henry-Russell Hitchcock, both first used the term International Style in 1932 in their essay that serves as a catalog for an architectural exhibition held at Museum of Modern Art.
Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson formed a partnership in 1967 with this architect known for mastering large and complex projects
John Burgee
The first Pritzker Architecture Prize awardee
Philip Johnson
A painter turned graphic designer turned architect, who received his first commission for the design of a factory that was linked to the rise of modernism. The factory pioneered modern, large-scale industrial development.
Peter Behrens
A German-American architect & educator that served as the director of the Bauhaus between 1919 and 1928. He exerted a major influence on the development of modern architecture.
Walter Gropius
Architect of the Chrysler Building
William Van Alen
Architect of the Woolworth Building
Cass Gilbert
Architect of the Hollywood-Western Building
Charles Lee
Architect of the Chilehaus
Fritz Hoger
Architect of the Goetheanum II Building
Rudolf Steiner
One of the best-known examples of expressionist architecture. Designed as an amorphic structure of reinforced concrete, the tower represents as well as facilitates the study of Einstein’s radical theory of relativity
Einstein Tower
A ten-story office building in Hamburg, Germany designed for the shipping magnate Henry B. Sloman, who made his fortune trading saltpeter from Chile.
Chilehaus
It is an exceptional example of the 1920s Brick Expressionism style of architecture. This large angular building famed for its tip reminiscent of a ship’s prow and its facade which meet at a very sharp angle at a street corner
Chilehaus
A 1000-seat auditorium designed by Rudolf Steiner built entirely of cast concrete. It is one of the first examples of usage of concrete in architecture and the first building to employ large-scale reinforced concrete construction to sculptural forms.
Goetheanum II Building
A historic building designed by Max Berg with a cupola made of reinforced concrete and a 23-meter high dome made of steel and glass. It has a quatrefoil shape with large circular central space that seats 7000 people.
Centennial Hall
An Evangelical Lutheran Church for St. Stephen that is a prominent example of International Modernism. It contains 250 seats and can be configured to hold a capacity of 600 people.
Stephanuskirche
A factory designed as the pioneering example of early modernist industrial design with its floor to ceiling glass that creates a sense of light and large rectangular panes punctuated by steel mullions and brickwork.
Fagus Factory
Now known as the Sony Tower, this 198-meter high building is regarded as the first Post-Modern skyscraper featuring several ornamental flourishes, from its granite cladding and “Chippendale” roof line to its brass and marble finishes on the interior
AT&T Building
An extraordinary example of modern architecture being transcribed as a part of vernacular architecture. The entire complex is made of cast-in-place concrete with inlaid white marble, which is a modernist statement of power, and a testament to the local materials and values.
National Assembly Building of Bangladesh
The element of natural light is the focus of this building’s design. Its distinctive form is due to its cycloid barrel vaults form rimmed with narrow skylights, allowing natural light to penetrate the spaces.
Kimball Art Museum
A factory located in the Moabit district of Berlin, created to house the production of steam turbines. Its establishment was linked to the rise of modernism. It has a steel-frame rectangular structure with a main assembly hall that had to accommodate two large cranes.
AEG Turbine Factory
This pioneering steel-and-glass house was built for an Illinois doctor as a weekend retreat set on the floodplain of the Fox River. The house invites nature in through continuous glass walls and is anchored delicately to the forest floor, epitomizing the International Style and its designer’s dictum.
Farnsworth House
A one-story house with an open floor plan enclosed in floor-to-ceiling sheets of glass. Its clear glass panels create a series of lively reflections, and completely exposing the interiors to the outdoors except for the cylinder brick structure with the entrance to the bathroom on one side and a fireplace on the other side.
Glass House
Glass House was built/Design by:
Philip Johnson
One of the first glass International style office buildings in the United States. Located in midtown Manhattan, its horizontal base is lifted off of the ground plane by pilots except for a small enclosed portion, providing a public plaza underneath. Its most important elements is its curtain wall which is made of blue-green heat-resistant glass and stainless steel.
Lever House
This two 36-storey trapezoidal high-rise towers made up of dark bronze glass and aluminum won the 2014 Digie Award for the “Most Intelligent Office Building”
Pennzoil Place
Emerged in Northern Europe in the early 20th century in poetry and painting, where it attempted to distort reality to express subjective, emotional experience. It quickly spread through all the arts and architecture, pioneered by a group of architects from Germany, Austria, and Denmark.
Expressionist Architecture
An architectural style dominant in Western architecture characterized by rectilinear forms, light plane surfaces completely stipped of ornamentation and decoration, open interior spaces and visually weightless quality.
International style
Individualist and informal approach to architecture, resulting in unusual building forms and making it difficult to define as a precise style
Expressionist Architecture
Rejection of historical styles, symmetrical forms and traditional designs, and instead embraced abstraction based on structures not found or seen in the real world
Expressionist Architecture
An architecture style the grew out of the phenomenon of architects’ increasing dissatisfaction with the continued use in stylistically eclectic buildings of a mix of decorative elements from different architectural periods and styles that bore little or no relation to the building’s functions
International style
