The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 146 - 147

Question 1

Modernist Architecture: Geometry to Live In

Answer 1

• new International Style (1920s)

- design gave form to the Machine Age by rejecting all historical ornament

Question 2

Gropius: Bauhaus Design

Answer 2

• Walter Gropius (1883-1969)

- director of Bauhaus school of design

Question 3

Mies: Less is More

Answer 3

• Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)

- colleague of Gropius

Question 4

Le Corbusier: A Machine for Living

Answer 4

• Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
• known for defining a house as “a machine for living”
• designed homes to resemble machines

Question 5

Frank Lloyd Wright

Answer 5

• Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
• most far-reaching contributions were busting wide open boxy floor plans designing site-specific buildings that seem to grow naturally out of their location
• he made rooms flow
• style is impossible to categorize