week 9

Question 1

what are the 6 Architectural Styles(BRAAIN)

Answer 1

1. Revivalism
2. Art Deco
3. Art Nouveau
4. International Style
5. Brutalism
6. Neo-Classical Style

Question 2

what style was penn Station in 1910

Answer 2

• Architecture replicated temples and spaces of the wealthy
• neo-classical style
• Original design gave importance to human wellbeing, empowering

Question 3

how many people would go through penn station everyday

Answer 3

600,000

Question 4

why did penn station go into delice around the 1950s

Answer 4

Competing with car and aeroplanes in 1950s

Question 5

what new design did they change penn station to

Answer 5

Utilitarian

Question 6

what is Utilitarian design?

Answer 6

a designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive.

Question 7

3 Jobs of Human Friendly Design (MIC)

Answer 7

1. Put our lives in a better context
2. Create a common sense of identity and space (ex. churches)
3. Support human comfort

Question 8

how did Predynastic Egypt (3100 BCE) keep there art styles for thousands of years?

Answer 8

• Part of one top down system
• One religion
• Art style was like a brand, it was run like a company
• No societies before that
• Art style united religion, government & society

Question 9

Which train station in New York was renovated to sell its air rights?

Answer 9

Penn station

Question 10

If the Penn station works well enough for moving people which is one reason why it looks matter?

Answer 10

Creates an environment where human life is worth living

Question 11

The single artistic style untied are…

Answer 11

Religion
Government and society

Question 12

Why does it matter weather people feel comfortable on streets

Answer 12

Helps business
Makes people walk more

Physical and mental health
Eyes on the streets

Question 13

Revialsilm

Answer 13

Revival of different older styles

ex. Baroque, Mayan etc.

Question 14

Art Deco

Answer 14

sleek, linear appearance with stylized, often geometric ornamentation

ex. Chrysler Building, Bank of Nova Scotia

Question 15

Art Nouveau

Answer 15

flowing lines, repeating rhythm, and asymmetry for a natural feel

ex. Gaudi

Question 16

International Style

Answer 16

Glass & Steel

ex. United Nations building

Question 17

Brutalism

Answer 17

Concrete, truth to materials

Question 18

Neo-Classical Style

Answer 18

grandeur of scale, simplicity of geometric forms

Roman detail
dramatic use of columns
a preference for blank walls

Question 19

what are atributes of postmodernism

Answer 19

About building anything
Like las vagus
Random stuff built
Whimsical, different
Brought back ornament

Question 20

Frank Gehry(LV)

Answer 20

Inspired by book “Abandoned from Las Vegas”

known for his use of bold, postmodern shapes and unusual fabrications.

ex. dancing house

Question 21

Louis Sullivan

Answer 21

said: “Form follows Function”

Against features that did accomplish anything

Referring to the unnecessary parts of a building that serve no purpose, not removing ornamentation

Question 22

Adolf Loos (1913) know for saying

Answer 22

“Ornamentation and Crime”

Sought to shame architects for ornamentation, associating with poor and minorities

Inspired Bauhaus style, which is a German art movement

Question 23

Le Corbusier (IS)

Answer 23

Inspired International style and Brutalism

Question 24

what 3 forms of achurtrual style did create

Answer 24

1. International style
   Bare basics
2. Brutalism
   Truth to materials
   Brute means raw
3. Kinda - Developer modernism
   Earth tones
   Rectangles

Question 25

what does Ann Sussman
do to seeing what draws people in

Answer 25

Studies eye tracking

Question 26

what did Jon Gehl mesure “Cities for People”

Answer 26

Measured human friendly design in spaces, seeing how many people are there, if they stop to socialize

Question 27

Urban planner Lewis Mumford

Answer 27

It is cool until there is too many of the same buildings
Claiming the privileges if the painter and sculptor without claiming there responsibilities with that job

Question 28

Why does it matter weather people feel comfortable on streets, 4 reasons…

Answer 28

Helps business
Makes people walk more
Physical and mental health
Eyes on the streets

Question 29

which train station in New York was renovated to sell its air rights?

Answer 29

Penn Station, loved before

Question 30

if the Penn station works well enough for moving people what is one reasons why looks matter?

Answer 30

Gave importance to human wellbeing

Question 31

what were the 3 architectural styles from 1850s to 1930s that used ornamants?

Answer 31

Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Revivalism

Question 32

the chrysler building and the banl of nova scotia are example of what style?

Answer 32

Art Deco

Question 33

did louis sullivan get ride of ornament from his own work

Answer 33

No, kept ornamentation

Question 34

what was the name of a german design school that helped bring minimalism to North America

Answer 34

Bauhaus

Question 35

what does “Brute” mean in brutalism

Answer 35

raw

Question 36

what slogan did the modernist follow that the postmodernist abandoned

Answer 36

Form follows Function

Question 37

who is a postmodernist architect

Answer 37

Frank Gehry

Question 38

what failing do modernist and postmodernist have in common

Answer 38

Lacks fine grain (No visual stimulation at ground)

Question 39

what do humans need a concentions of to feel conforatable

Answer 39

Visual details