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| The building that best represents the coming together of Wright's ideas of plan, section, and elevation in creating continuity of space and movement is |
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| List 2 details Mies used in his AMerican buildings to divorce them from the existing urban fabric |
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1. lifted building off the ground plane
2. set the building back from the sidewalk |
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| what advantage is there in offsetting the location of the core in the plan of a highrise office building? |
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| Better for space planning |
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| What detail in the lever house allows the pedestrian to reconnect with tower after leaving the sidewalk |
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| walk under building and opening to see up to tower |
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| what was the new architectural material whose price had dropped significantly after the end of WWII that it quickly was adopted as the exterior material of choice for the next twenty years? |
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| describe the lateral wind load structure of the Sears Building: |
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| Describe the problem that rationalist International Style designers tried to avoid and what was the typical solution |
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| the cannot express each column the same so they would cantilever ends |
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| ________was the last and tallest of the International Style glass box skyscrapers |
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| What 3 environmental systems were combined in the development of the suspended ceiling during the 1950s? |
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lighting
ventilation
sprinklers |
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| What kept the International Style glass box skyscraper from going taller than the Chase Manhattan Bank? |
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| Wind Structure cost too high |
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| Discuss the interrelationship between exterior and interior detailing in choosing between a centerline to centerline curtain wall and one that is inserted between the sides of the columns |
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| cantilever curtain wall out so all windows will be the same |
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| the first pose WWII glass box skyscraper in the US was the |
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| Equitable Savings Building |
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| What 2 major projects were responsible for the large size of SOM by the end of WWII? |
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Manhattan Projects
VA Hospitals |
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| What skyscraper marked the ultimate retreat from the street and the start of Plaza-mania |
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| The conceptual design of the UN office tower was the product of |
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| _________was responsible for the conceptual design of the UN office tower |
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| I don't want to be interesting I want to be good is a quote ascribed to |
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| Describe the difference in how Mies designed spaces in his pre-WWII European buildings and those in his post-WWII American buildings |
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pre-flow of space and simplicity
post-rational and symmetrical |
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| Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space is a quote by |
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| The SOM partner responsible for the design of the Lever House was |
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| Why were the Lever House and the Seagrams Building much more expensive than the face value of their construction |
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| they did not build on the full site |
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| list the 3 locations for a glass skin in a skyscraper and alist a building from glass that is an example of each type: |
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1.structural frame glass infill-Equitable savings bank
2. Infront of structure-UN headquarters
3. Behind the structure-Inland steel building |
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| The difference between SOM's typical corner detail as represented in the Inland Steel Building and Mies' typical corner detail as represented in the Seagram's Building is: |
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| Both tried to minimize the visual weight of the corner; Mies by putting the curtain wall in front of the columns, SOM by cantilevering the floor out from the last corner to eliminate a corner column |
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