History Of Modern Architecture - Slide Test 1

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Building: Gamble House

Architect: Charles and Henry Greene

Years: 1907-1908

Significant Features: Built for one of the millionaire partners of the soap firm Procter and Gamble. California Bungalow. Striking building for its intimacy and human scale. Sleeping Porches. Tiffany Lamps and stained glass panels.

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Building: Goldman & Salatsch Store

Architect: Adolf Loos

Years: 1910-1911

Significant Features: Directly across from the Imperial Palace. Includes Doric Columns. Windows lacks detail. Window boxes were later installed.

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Building: Schroder House

Architect: Gerrit Thomas Rietveld

Years: 1923-1924

Significant Features: Rectangular, smooth shapes, and bright primary color elements. The building is formed from intersecting planar walls in such a way that some of them appear to hover in space.

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Building: Robie House

Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

Years: 1909

Significant Features: Prairie Style House. The projecting cantilevered roof eaves, continuous bands of art-glass windows, and the use of Roman brick emphasize the horizontal. The chimney mass contains four fireplaces.

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Building: University of Virginia

Architect: Thomas Jefferson

Years: 1817-1864

Significant Features: Modeled on the Roman Pantheon. The Rotunda originally housed the library.

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Building: US Capital Building

Architect: Benjamin Latrobe

Years: 1811-1864

Significant Features: The Capitol building is marked by its central dome above a rotunda and two wings, one for each chamber of Congress

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Building: Boston Public Library

Architect: McKim, Mead & White

Years: 1882

Significant Features: The building included lavish decorations, a children's room (the first in the nation), and a central courtyard surrounded by an arcaded gallery in the manner of a Renaissance cloister.

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Building: World Columbian Exposition

Architect: Burnham, Olmsted & others

Years: 1893

Significant Features: aka The Chicago World's Fair. Prototype of what Burnham and his colleagues thought a city should be. Featured nearly 200 new buildings of classical architecture, canals and lagoons

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Building: Palace of Fine Arts

Architect: Barnard Maybeck

Years: 1915

Significant Features: Inspiration from Roman and Greek architecture. It was one of only three buildings from the exposition not to be demolished. The lagoon was intended to echo those found in classical settings in Europe.