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| The beach house in Newport Beach for Dr. Phillip Lovell was designed by who? |
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| Upon his arrival to the US, Gropius assumed the directorship of the architecture school at _________ while Mies eventually was named head of the school at ____ |
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| How does Phillip Johnson's Glass House minimize heat gain in the summer? |
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| Shading by deciduous trees |
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| Another early post WW II house that made use of steel but differed from the essays of Mies and Johnson in that is utilized standardized parts and was composed in a sensitive irregularity which reflected a refined sense of the ordinary was designed by who? |
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| 2 requirements that had to be met by a building in order to qualify to be included in MOMA'a 1932 "Intl Style" exhibition |
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1. arch. as volume rather than mass
2. no arbitrary ornament to the building |
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| Projects most associated with Nazi Germany were designed by what architect? |
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| 2 reasons why the Farnsworth House was an environmental disaster |
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1. non operable windows
2. singled pane windows |
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| Only totalitarian regime in PreWWII Europe that did not adopt a literal Neo-classicism as teh official style of teh state was in what country? |
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| How did the elevation of the McGraw Hill Building differ from other skyscrapers designed by Hood? |
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| Emphasized horizontal and had continuous spandrels |
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| 2 architects who immigrated to US before Hitler rose to power who were early practitioners of the Intl. Stlye in the US |
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| 2 architects who immigrated to US after Hitler rose to power who were early practitioners of the Intl. Stlye in the US |
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| 2 Austrian architects who came to the US and worked with FLW |
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| 1st Euro. architect to bring Intl. Style to California |
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| Who is credited with coining of the term "Intl. Style" and for what reason? |
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| Phillip Johnson for the MOMA exhibit |
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| Last director of the German Bauhaus |
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| 2 skyscrapers built before WW!! that exhibited the Intl. Style in some of their parts, list the architect of each |
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1. PSFS Building by Howe and Lescaze
2. McGraw-Hill Building by Hood |
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| 1st skyscraper in the US to exhibit the massing and the exterior language of the European "Intl. Style" was the what? |
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| 2 curators of the MOMA show were who? |
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| Mc-Graw-Hill Building was designed by who? |
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| The Casa del Fascio was designed by who? |
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| High Point I was designed by who? |
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| Hitler chose what type of architecture as symbolic of the Third Reich? |
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| the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building was designed by who? |
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