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What style did Frank Lloyd Wright come up with?
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Praire Style
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What is Praire style?
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The building is meant to fit into the landscape, it has an open floor plan that brings the outside in, he used levels not walls to define rooms, walls became floating planes, and he used a lot of long horizantol lines.
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Who built the Johnson Wax Building?
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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What is special about the Johnson Wax building?
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The lily pads, which are natural forms, get larger as they go up which creates an optical illusion that defies gravity. He also used a lot of natural light by putting windows in the roof. The inner structure also looks like a tree, through the use of cantilever.
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Who built Falling Water?
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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What is special about Falling Water?
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Brought the outside in by using the bedrock that was there as part of the floor in front of the hearth. Built it on top of the river. The disappearing window. Verticle lines are natural bedrock, the horizontal lines are ferroconcrete.
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Who inspired Frank Lloyd Wright?
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Louis Sullivan
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Who started truth to materials?
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A.W.N. Pugin
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Why was the use of gothic architecture important to A.W.N. Pugin?
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He was a catholic convert who believed that the medieval time period was more moral. It was an age of faith.
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Who believed that "the structure is the ornament"?
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A.W.N.Pugin
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Who wrote The Stones of Venice and when?
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John Ruskin 1853
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Who wrote The Seven Lamps of Architecture and when?
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John Ruskin 1849
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What was The Stones of Venice purpose?
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Against industrialism because of the division of labor. Ruskin believed that the machine operator turned into a machine.
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What political view did John Ruskin have?
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He was an uncompromising socialist.
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Who was opposed to A.W.N. Pugin because of his beliefs? but what did they have in common?
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Thomas Carlyle, they both disliked their materialistic age.
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Who formed the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
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Dante Gabriel Rosetti
William Holman Hunt John Everett Millais |
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What year did the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood begin and end?
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1848-1853
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Who built the Red House and in what year?
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Philip Webb 1859
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What contribution did William Morris make to the Red House?
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He furnished and lived in it until 1864
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Who implemented the use of local materials with practical design?
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Philip Webb
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When was Morris & Co. established?
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1875
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What did Morris & CO design?
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wallpaper, kettles, chairs, etc design for everyday items for everyone
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What was Morris's political stance?
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He was a utopian socialist, wanted good design for everyone
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What is a Garden City?
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It is a city designed to have the best of both the town and the country.
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What is neo-gothic?
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It was about the morality and the social circumstances, people wanted to return to the past.
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Who was Sir Joshua Reynolds?
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He defined the grand manner and embodied classicism. Everything the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood opposed.
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When was the Eiffel Tower built?
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1889
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Why was the Eiffel tower built?
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It was built for an exhibition to show France's industrial superiority.
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Who rejected the notion of the Garden City?
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The Favian Socialists
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Who joined the Socail Democratic Federation in 1863?
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William Morris
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When did the Gothic Revivalist movement end and why?
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1914 because war broke out
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What is Alienation?
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the estrangement from labor
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What is medieval revivalism in response to?
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Modernity, 1825
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What is Gesamkunstwerk?
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The total work of art.
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What is important about fireplaces?
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The social center, bring people back into a central location rather than spread throughout the house.
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What type of architecture did Voysey use?
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Vernacular
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What people are associate with the Flaneur?
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indepentantly wealthy male
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What makes art nouveau unique?
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there is no historical precurser and the whiplash s curve
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What are the arcades?
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Shopping centers, meant to be a social center, only men or "immoral" women.
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What was unique about UK art nouveau?
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It was rectilinear, hard edged.
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