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24 Cards in this Set
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Foundling Hospital |
Architect: Filippo Brunelleschi Place: Florence, Italy Good example of Renaissance architecture using decorative elements and overall shape and appearance. |
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San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane |
Architect: Bormini Place: Rome, Italy Important use of ornamentation and good example of the Baroque style. |
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Strawberry Hill |
Architect: Horace Walpole Place: Twickenham, England Gothic Revival |
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Altes Museum |
Architect: Gottfried Schinkel Place: Berlin, Germany Neoclassicism/greek revival Significance of building: A neoclassicism/greek revival example. Expresses the interest in solidity and severe forms |
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Crystal Palace |
Architect: Joseph Paxton Place: London, England Glass Exhibition structure simple modular design therefore there was ease of fabrication, transport, and assembly. A giant greenhouse. |
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Brooklyn Bridge |
Architect: John A. Roebling Place: New York, NY New use of construction and design of suspension bridge This American icon is one of the most beautiful and sophisticated bridges to be build at the time of ever since. It proved that bridges did not need to be arched or barrel shaped. Steal's tensile strength allows it to hold up the bridge across longer distances than previously thought possible. |
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Paris Opera |
Architect: Charles Garnier Place: Paris, France Beaux Arts Classicism People went to the Opera to be seen and it was a building to show your status. The staircase is where the nobles showed off their outfits and met with other important individuals. |
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Bibiotheque St. Genevieve |
Architect: Henri Labrouste
Place: Paris, France Beaux Arts Classicism/use of technology This was significant because it introduced new materials and building technologies. There was cast iron on the ceiling of the first floor that held up the second floor reading room and cast iron vaulting in the reading room. |
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Victoria Memorial |
Architect: Sir William Emerson Place: Calcutta, India Movement: Imperial Classicism Mirrored the taste in London for major government buildings. It has nothing to do with the local style in India |
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Viceroy's House |
Architect: Sir Edwin Lutyens Place: New Delhi, India Indo-Sarcenic/ Imperial Classicism Superficial sensitivity to surroundings |
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Monticello |
Architect: Thomas Jefferson Place: Charlottesville, Virginia Federalist/Roman Revival full of architectural inventions. Jefferson implements a fusion of multiple styles including Roman revival, country villa style, and federalist. |
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SF. City Hall |
Architect: Bakewell and Brown Place: SF, CA Beaux Arts Classicism City Hall was the piece of the City Beautiful movement in __. It has the great dome in the center with two wings going out on either side. The symmetry of it is clear, a perfect square as seen from above with a lawn leading up to the entrance. The classicism style is very clear and fits with the City Beautiful Movement as in Chicago and DC. |
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Gamble House |
Architects: Greene and Greene Place: Pasadena, California
Arts & Crafts + Shingle Style + Asian influences This house is significant in that it combines many different architectural styles. Like the Munstead Wood house, it also aims at merging inside and outside. It has large porches extruding out into the garden and plants that invade space. |
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Red House |
Archtitect: Philip Web Place: Bexleyheath, England medieval style combined with arts and crafts influence of the time period. Although it takes many design features from gothic architecture like high roofs and tall windows, many of these design features were unnecessary, but were often used in neo-gothic design. Its complicated and detailed dense interiors were based on designs by the architect Augustus Pugin. Rejected the industrialism happening at the time and wanted to fill the house with things that were hand crafted and seemed to be from an earlier time. |
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Tassel House |
Architect: Victor Horta Place: Brussels, Belgium Movement: Art Nouveau rejection of the Beaux Arts Classicism. Horta introduces the whiplash curve and plant-like forms through Ironwork |
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Sagrada Familia |
Architect: Antonio Gaudi Place: Barcelona, Spain Catalan Modernisme (Arts & Crafts + Gothic Revival + living life intensely + primacy of beauty)Significance of building: A strong example of Catalan modernism. Gaudi merged his catholicism with engineering and his understanding of nature to create this unique church. |
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Bauhaus |
Architect: Walter Gropius
Place: Dessau, Germany Movement: Modernism Significance: A new age of building with form following function |
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Schroeder House |
Architect: Gerrit Rietveld Place: Utrecht, Holland Movement: De Stijl planes and lines popular in modernism |
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Barcelona Pavilion |
Architect: Mies van der Rohe Place: Barcelona Spain Movement: Modernism Significance: Stands for a new culturally advanced Germany, excellent display of modernism |
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Villa Savoye |
Architect: Le Corbusier Place: Poissy, France Movement: Modernism Significance: Has his five points of architecture, one of his most famous buildings, great display of his early style |
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Kaufmann House/ Falling Water |
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright Place: Bear Run, PA, USA Movement: International Style Significance: Frank Lloyd Wright's work shared certain characteristics with European modernist architecture, but he denied any European influence on his own work and disparaged European modernist architects. This building emphasizes the relation to landscape and nature. |
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Lovell House |
Architect: Richard Neutra Place: Los Angelis, Ca Movement: Modernism Significance: Excellent use of glass and steel, pre fab construction, concrete, great display of modern style |
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Woolworth Building |
Architect: Cass Gilbert Place: New York, NY, USA Movement: neo-Gothic style Significance: This building was one of the first skyscrapers and it was the tallest building in the world from years 1931 to 1970. It was dubbed the Cathedral of Commerce. During this time European modernists developed the International Style and US architects experimented with various decorative strategies for skyscrapers |
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Casa del Fascio |
Architect: Giuseppe Terragni Place: Como, Italy Modernism meets fascism. Italian architects wanted to also refer to historical architecture/emphasize tradition |
