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Midterm #1

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a reaction against a mixing of styles   Modern Architecture  
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In what time period is the function more directly expressed?   1890-1920  
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"Buildings should be true to their function and structure"   Viollet le Duc  
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international style of modernism is...   Idealistic  
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What building is an example of American architecture influencing European architecture?   Robie House (1909) by Frank Lloyd Wright  
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Who were some of the pioneers of modern architecture?   Walter Gropius (Germany) and Nice Van Der Ella (Chicago)  
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who designed the Bauhaus with the intent of facilitation work?   Gropius  
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an experimental house which was designed by Alvar Aalto who was attuned to human needs   Villa Mairea (1938)  
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What building brings together different styles like Villa Mairea?   Pompidou Center  
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an example of Post Modernism   Pompidou Center  
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an example of Deconstructionist architecture   Jewish Museum, Berlin  
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flaws emerge as decoration   Deconstructionist architecture  
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what building is in the shape of a thunderbolt/ broken star of David?   Jewish Museum, Berlin  
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Emphasizes disruption and imbalance   Jewish Museum, Berlin  
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an example of green architecture   California Academy of Sciences  
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octagonal dome, sides are different, one porch, columns (corinthian, grooves, decretive), based on Renaissance   Chiswick House  
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wonderful views, great cylinder in cube, decretive sculptures, four porches, columns are smooth   Villa Rotonda  
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know for his prints, Roman architecture, felt Roman classicalism were supreme, people in pictures to depict size   Piranesi  
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felt greek art was better, thought the sculpture of Apollo was noble simplicity   Winckelman  
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played a part in French Revolution   Charles-Nicolas Ledoux  
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messiness of the mind   Piranesi  
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what build gives a 360 degree views, no sculpture in pediment   Barriere de la Villette  
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based of "tempeo", simplicity in tablature, simple doric columns   Barriere Monceau  
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"speaking architecture"- expresses use and purpose   Boullee (memorial for Isaac Newton)  
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movement of planets and bodies in heaven   memorial for Isaac Newton  
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spherical tomb -500ft dynamiter   memorial for Isaac Newton  
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light to express the Divine   Boullee (memorial for Isaac Newton)  
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who designed University of Virginia?   Thomas Jefferson  
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