Midterm II

Question 1

Answer 1

Casa Milá (or La Pedrera, the quarry), Barcelona, Spain, Antoni Gaudí

Question 2

Answer 2

Casa Milá interior (restaurant La Pedrera), Barcelona, Spain, Antoni Gaudí

Question 3

Answer 3

The Winslow House, Frank Lloyd Wright. This was his first major commission.

Question 4

Answer 4

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Richard Morris Hunt. Typical of his Beaux Arts approach to major buildings.

Question 5

Answer 5

The Flatiron Building, New York City, Daniel Burnham

Question 6

Answer 6

Casa Batlló, Antoni Gaudí

Question 7

Answer 7

Rendering by Marion Mahoney.
Later, after Wright’s debacle with
Mamah Chaney, Mahoney married Walter Burley Griffin, also from Wright’s Studio, and took his last name. They moved to Canberra,
Australia and did very well.

Question 8

Answer 8

The Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Central Administration Building, Richard Morris Hunt.

Question 9

Answer 9

Louis Sullivan’s Transportation Building at the Columbian Exposition. The building was the only feature at the fair that was not white. It was known as the Golden Door. Sullivan detested Burnham, the organizer of the fair, and delighted in irritating him.

Question 10

Answer 10

Casa Batlló

Question 11

Answer 11

Fine Arts Pavilion, San Francisco
Exposition of 1915, Bernard Maybeck, Beaux Arts.

Question 12

Answer 12

Prairie Style

Question 13

Answer 13

Prairie Style

Question 14

Answer 14

Japanese Exhibition Pavilion, Chicago Columbia Exposition. Immensely influential to American designers.

Question 15

Answer 15

Japanese Exhibition Pavilion, St. Louis World’s Fair. Immensely influential to American designers.

Question 16

Answer 16

Art Nouveau, Italy.
Redefining over the top.

Question 17

Answer 17

Sophia Bennett. First female graduate of the first architecture school in the country, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. First architect driven out of the profession after her first job by The Impossible Client. Not the last.

Question 18

Answer 18

Watercolors by Eliel Saarinen. Farmhouse in Finland. Total work of art.

Question 19

Answer 19

Watercolors by Eliel Saarinen. Farmhouse in Finland. Total work of art.

Question 20

Answer 20

Bungalow. The word and house form comes from India. So does the word ‘Pajama’.

Question 21

Answer 21

Gustav Stickley’s very affordable
furniture helped make the Arts and
Crafts style very popular in America.

Question 22

Answer 22

The Craftsman magazine, Gustav Stickley. One of the original ‘Shelter mags’ before the term existed

Question 23

Answer 23

One of the original ‘Shelter mags’ before the term existed

Question 24

Answer 24

One of the original ‘Shelter mags’ before the term existed

Question 25

Answer 25

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley, California, Bernard Maybeck

Question 26

Answer 26

Gamble House, Greene and Greene

Question 27

Answer 27

Japanese temple

Question 28

Answer 28

Munstead Wood, England, Edwin Lutyens

Question 29

Answer 29

Munstead Wood, England, Edwin Lutyens

Question 30

Answer 30

Client and master landscape designer, Gertrude Jekyll.

Question 31

Answer 31

Interiors by Bernard Maybeck

Question 32

Answer 32

Interiors by Bernard Maybeck

Question 33

Answer 33

Greyfriars, C.F.A. Voysey

Question 34

Answer 34

C.F.A. Voysey

Question 35

Answer 35

C.F.A. Voysey

Question 36

Answer 36

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Charles Townsend. Façade sculpture by Rachel Whiteread.

Question 37

Answer 37

Annie and Bernard Maybeck. Berkeley, California.

Question 38

Answer 38

Greene and Greene

Question 39

Answer 39

William Gray Purcell and George Elmslie’s Purcell/Cutts House, Minneapolis, 1913

Question 40

Answer 40

William Gray Purcell and George Elmslie’s Purcell/Cutts House, Minneapolis, 1913

Question 41

Answer 41

The Larkin Building from the Wasmuth Portfolio

Question 42

Answer 42

Coonley House from the Wasmuth Portfolio

Question 43

Answer 43

Fagus Shoe Last Factory. Gropius /Meyer, 1911-1913, Germany

Question 44

Answer 44

Adolf Loos and his ‘lounge’ chair of torture

Question 45

Answer 45

Rudolf Steiner, Goetheanum. Expressionist using plasticity of materials. Inspired Frank Geary's Disney Concert Hall.

Question 46

Answer 46

Original Pennsylvania Station. Inspired by the baths of Caracalla.

Question 47

Answer 47

Baths of Caracalla. Inspired the original Pennsylvania Station.

Question 48

Answer 48

Interiors by Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 49

Answer 49

Interiors by Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 50

Answer 50

The Müller House, Adolf Loos

Question 51

Answer 51

The Müller House, Adolf Loos

Question 52

Answer 52

The Müller House, Adolf Loos

Question 53

Answer 53

Joseph Maria Olbrich, Germany

Question 54

Answer 54

Joseph Maria Olbrich, Germany

Question 55

Answer 55

Gamble House, Greene and Greene

Question 56

Answer 56

Gamble House, Greene and Greene

Question 57

Answer 57

Joseph Maria Olbrich

Question 58

Answer 58

Joseph Maria Olbrich

Question 59

Answer 59

Frank Lloyd Wright, Unity Temple, Oak Park. Included in the Wasmuth Portfolio.

Question 60

Answer 60

Joseph Maria Olbrich, St. Louis World’s Fair, 1904

Question 61

Answer 61

Joseph Maria Olbrich, St. Louis World’s Fair, 1904

Question 62

Answer 62

Joseph Maria Olbrich, St. Louis World’s Fair, 1904

Question 63

Answer 63

Robert Mallet Stevens, France. Photographed by Thérèse Bonney.

Question 64

Answer 64

Pierre Charreau, Maison de Verre

Question 65

Answer 65

Pierre Charreau, Maison de Verre

Question 66

Answer 66

Hill House, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald

Question 67

Answer 67

Le Corbusier, Ronchamp

Question 68

Answer 68

E.1027 Eileen Gray, 1926-1929, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin

Question 69

Answer 69

E.1027 Eileen Gray, 1926-1929, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin

Question 70

Answer 70

Glasgow School of Art, C.R. Mackintosh

Question 71

Answer 71

Palais Stoclet, Brussels, Josef Hoffmann, mural by Gustav Klimt

Question 72

Answer 72

Ronchamp, Le Corbusier

Question 73

Answer 73

Hill House, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald

Question 74

Answer 74

by Margaret MacDonald

Question 75

Answer 75

Otto Wagner, Postal Savings Bank, Vienna

Question 76

Answer 76

Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, circa 1979

Question 77

Answer 77

Otto Wagner, Kirch am Steinhoff, Vienna

Question 78

Answer 78

Majolica House (Majolika Haus), Vienna, Otto Wagner

Question 79

Answer 79

Katze!

Question 80

Answer 80

Farnsworth, Plano, IL, Mies van der Rohe

Question 81

Answer 81

The Kaufmann House, Palm Springs, California, Richard Neutra

Question 82

Answer 82

The Kaufmann House, Palm Springs, California, Richard Neutra

Question 83

Answer 83

Miller House, Palm Springs, Richard Neutra

Question 84

Answer 84

Schindler House, Los Angeles, Rudolf Schindler. Used tilt-up slab construction.

Question 85

Answer 85

Interior of Schindler House, Los Angeles, Rudolf Schindler. Tilt-up slab construction: walls tapered outside, plumb inside.

Question 86

Answer 86

Steven Holl, The Planar House. Also, tilt-up slab construction.

Question 87

Answer 87

Steven Holl, Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle (inspired by Ronchamp)

Question 88

Answer 88

Reinhardt Theatre, Joseph Urban, never built. Urban also built Mar-a-Lago.

Question 89

Answer 89

The Ziegfeld Theatre, Joseph Urban, New York

Question 90

Answer 90

The Ziegfeld Theatre wall murals, Joseph Urban, New York

Question 91

Answer 91

Auditorium, New School for Social Research, Joseph Urban

Question 92

Answer 92

American Radiator Building, Raymond Hood. Painting by Georgia O’Keefe.

Question 93

Answer 93

The Chrysler Building, William Van Alen

Question 94

Answer 94

Ceiling murals in the lobby of the Chrysler Building, Edward Turnbull

Question 95

Answer 95

Charles Sheeler, classic landscape

Question 96

Answer 96

Radio City Music Hall, Edward Durell Stone and Donald Deskey, It became the largest privately funded construction project in modern history

Question 97

Answer 97

Deskey’s office for Roxy Rothafel, the house manager at Radio City.

Question 98

Answer 98

30 Rockefeller Plaza (RCA Headquarters), Raymond Hood