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| The Beach house in Newport beach for Dr. Phillip Lovell was designed by: |
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| The Lovell Health House was designed by: |
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| The two Austrian architects who came to the U.S. and worked with Wright were: |
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| List tow architects who immigrated to the U.S. before Hitler rose to power who were early practitioners of the International Style in the U.S.: |
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| The first European architect to bring the International style to California was: |
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| The Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Buildings was designed by: |
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| Sketch the typical office floor plan of the PSFS Building: |
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| Like a T with short arms, offices all around edges, circulation T in center |
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| The first skyscraper in the US to exhibit the massing and the exterior language of the European International Style was: |
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| The Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building |
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| The McGraw-Hill Building was designed by: |
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| How did the McGraw-Hill building differ from other skyscrapers designed by Hood? |
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| Horizontal emphasis instead of vertical |
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| What American is credited with coining the term "International Style"? |
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| Name two skyscrapers built before WWII that exhibited the International Style in some of their parts, list the architect of each: |
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1. Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building, Howe and Lescaze
2. McGraw-Hill, Hood |
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| The two curators of the MOMA show, "The International Style" were" |
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| List two requirements that had to be met by a buildings in order to qualify to be included in MOMA's 1932 "International Style" exhibition: |
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1. Architecture represented as a volume rather than mass
2. Regularity rather than axial symmetry |
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| Who was the last director of the German bauhaus? |
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| Upon their arrival in the US, what did Gropius and Mies do? |
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Gropius - assumed the directorship of the architecture school at Harvard
Mies - eventually was named the head of the school at IT. |
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| The only totalitarian regime in pre-WWII Europe that did not adopt a literal neo-classicism as the official style of the state was in what country? |
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| The Casa del Fascio was designed by: |
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| Two reasons that Mies cantilevered his roofs/floors beyond the corner columns: |
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1. Implying continuity of space
2. Emphasis of the plane |
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| What style did Hitler choose as symbolic of the Third Reich? |
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| Neoclassical architecture |
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| The projects most often associated with Nazi Germany were designed by what architect? |
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| List two reasons why the Farnsworth House was an environmental disaster: |
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1. Single-pane glass
2. Non-operable windows |
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| List two architects who immigrated to the US after Hitler rose to power who were early practitioners of the International Style in the US: |
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| How does Philip Johnson's Glass House minimize heat gain in summer? |
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| Another early post-WWII house that made use of steel, but differed from the essays of Mies and Johnson in that it utilized standardized parts and was composed in a sensitive irregularity, which reflected a refined a sense of the ordinary, was designed by: |
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