History- Emergence Of Modernism Architecture

Front 1

What PERIOD said "Art could be unified with technology and aesthetically pleasing objects could be made by mechanical means?

Back 1

Bauhaus

Front 2

Name 3 of the first machine age developments in the years of modernism that were covered in class and in the book. Give an example, such as communications/telephone. Think big picture

Back 2

1. Travel - ship, rail, auto, air
2. Lighting - electricity
3. Structural engineering using steel and reinforced concrete

Front 3

Name the 4 men that have been regarded as the PIONEERS of the modernism in design.

Back 3

1. Walter Gropius
2. Mies van der Rohe
3. Le Corbusier
4. Frank Lloyd Wright

Front 4

Name 3 pioneers of the International Style, that all worked for Peter Behrens

Back 4

1. Walter Gropius
2. Mies van der Rohe
3. Le Corbusier

Front 5

Name the MAIN colors used in the De Stijl's designs

Back 5

The primaries (red, blue, yellow) and black/white

Front 6

Why were the colors chosen for De Stijl's designs?

Back 6

pureism

Front 7

De Stijl translates to

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The Style

Front 8

What are the main concepts for the De Stijl Movement?

Back 8

De Stijl was primarily concerned with concepts of pure abstraction in painting and sculpture.

Front 9

Name Frank Lloyd Wright's famous residential house in Pennsylvania.

Back 9

FallingWater.

Front 10

Who coined the phrase "Less is more"?

Back 10

Mies van der Rohe

Front 11

Another famous quote and sometimes has been very controversial, "A house is a machine for the living", is said by one of the most famous designers

Back 11

Le Corbusier

Front 12

There was a whole group of very famous people of the Bauhaus, name the furniture design student that ended up teaching there and later on - partnered with Walter Groupius

Back 12

Marcel Breuer

Front 13

What is the name of this designers (design student furniture designer) most famous chair (named after another teacher at Bauahus?

Back 13

Wassily

Front 14

In 1925 a World's Fair in Paris showcased an incredible exhibition of interior design in objects and rooms. Name this post world-war style.

Back 14

Art Deco

Front 15

The key criterion in the modern period and still remains true to today's design is one word only. Name that word.

Back 15

Functionalism

Front 16

The term Industrial design came into use in the 20's and 30's to describe what?

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A profession which designs products from Industry

Front 17

The term "Modern Design" of the second decade of the 20th century was primarily developed in what country?

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Germany

Front 18

What did Frank Lloyd Wright name his concrete blocks with the decorative face?

Back 18

Textile block

Front 19

Name one of the largest architectural firms (with many staff members), founded in 1936, and worked with a lot of skyscrapers?

Back 19

SOM (Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill) responsible for both the architecture and interior design of the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio. Favored Mies van der Rohe

Front 20

Name the modest desert camp of FLW, which has grown into a complex in which one can receive a Masters Degree in Architecture

Back 20

Taliesin West

Front 21

Where do we see ART DECO in public interiors..the MOST, in the US and other countries? Name one special interior, here in Tucson

Back 21

Theatres/Fox Theatre in Tucson

Front 22

There was a second tier of modernist that was major to this modern movement. Humanity and a sense of the organic were always at the heart of his work, name this special famous designer

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Alvar Aalto

Front 23

Scandanavian countries came to be praiseed for their contribution of this furniture. Name this special kind of furniture construction

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knockdown

Front 24

What was very different about lighting in the Art Deco era?

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Ambiant lighting - sconces - defused - reflective lighting

Front 25

Name a famous women professional decorator of the 20th Century?

Back 25

Woods, Ross, Wolf, cummings, Parish, McMillian, Elkin

Front 26

Name two famous commercial furniture manufacturers mentioned in our book

Back 26

1. Knoll
2. Herman Miller

Front 27

Name the Academy that produced some famous designers, such as the Saarinens, Harry Bertoia, and Florence Schust (Knoll)

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Cranbrook

Front 28

Name 3 famous or nationally recognized architectural and/or furniture designs of Eero Saarinen

Back 28

womb chair
tulip chair
grasshopper chair
(TWA lounge area)

Front 29

Name some of the other names ART DECO was called before the 60's when it finally ended up being ART DECO

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1. Jazz Modern
2. Arts and Crafts
3. New Traditionalists

Front 30

Who said "Good design is good business"?

Back 30

Florence Knoll

Front 31

Name 3 of the 5 of the points of Le Corbusier architecture

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1. Pilotis
2. Roof Gardens
3. Free Plan
4. Ribbon windows
5. Free Facade

Front 32

By the 50's modernism is firmly in place. What does the book say about the post WW II modernistic ideas and interior design?

Back 32

modernistic ideas became commercial production; interiors were filled with gross versions of modernisitic furniture, kitchens w/appliances in pastel colors (gigantic automobiles); interior design moved forward in contrast to this unfortunate dominate direction

Front 33

Art Deco had its origins in displays - where?

Back 33

In Paris in the 1920's, notably the Esposition des Arts Decforatifs et Industriels in 1925.

Front 34

What features define Art Deco?

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Stepped forms, zigzag patterns, black, glass, and chrome, use of mirrors, and light fixtures

Front 35

uNLIKE MODERNIST DESIGN, aRT dECO WAS NOT STRONGLY CONCERNED WITH ISSUES OF FUNCTIONALISM AND TECHNOLOGY. iT WAS PRIMARILY A ______ STYLE

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fashion-oriented style, which was expected to take its place in the sequence of styles from past history

Front 36

Some of the people at the Bauhuas program included:

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Gropius recruited an extroidinary faculty that included modern artists, such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Lyonel Feininger and many other distinguished teachers such as Josef Albers, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Marcel Breuer.