Quiz3

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

Philip Johnson

Question 2

Philip Johnson formed a partnership in 1967 with this architect known for mastering large and complex projects

Answer 2

John Burgee

Question 3

The first Pritzker Architecture Prize awardee

Answer 3

Philip Johnson

Question 4

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.

Answer 4

Peter Behrens

Question 5

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.

Answer 5

Walter Gropius

Question 6

Architect of the Chrysler Building

Answer 6

William Van Alen

Question 7

Architect of the Woolworth Building

Answer 7

Cass Gilbert

Question 8

Architect of the Hollywood-Western Building

Answer 8

Charles Lee

Question 9

Architect of the Chilehaus

Answer 9

Fritz Hoger

Question 10

Architect of the Goetheanum II Building

Answer 10

Rudolf Steiner

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Einstein Tower

Question 12

A ten-story office building in Hamburg, Germany designed for the shipping magnate Henry B. Sloman, who made his fortune trading saltpeter from Chile.

Answer 12

Chilehaus

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Chilehaus

Question 14

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.

Answer 14

Goetheanum II Building

Question 15

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.

Answer 15

Centennial Hall

Question 16

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.

Answer 16

Stephanuskirche

Question 17

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.

Answer 17

Fagus Factory

Question 18

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

Answer 18

AT&T Building

Question 19

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.

Answer 19

National Assembly Building of Bangladesh

Question 20

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.

Answer 20

Kimball Art Museum

Question 21

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.

Answer 21

AEG Turbine Factory

Question 22

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.

Answer 22

Farnsworth House

Question 23

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.

Answer 23

Glass House

Question 24

Glass House was built/Design by:

Answer 24

Philip Johnson

Question 25

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.

Answer 25

Lever House

Question 26

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”

Answer 26

Pennzoil Place

Question 27

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.

Answer 27

Expressionist Architecture

Question 28

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.

Answer 28

International style

Question 29

Individualist and informal approach to architecture, resulting in unusual building forms and making it difficult to define as a precise style

Answer 29

Expressionist Architecture

Question 30

Rejection of historical styles, symmetrical forms and traditional designs, and instead embraced abstraction based on structures not found or seen in the real world

Answer 30

Expressionist Architecture

Question 31

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

Answer 31

International style