Deck 16: Modernism in the Mid- and Late Twentieth Century and Beyond

Question 1

All of the following are Alvar Aalto designs EXCEPT:

A) Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Paimio.
B) Baker House, MIT Campus, Cambridge.
C) Municipal Library, Viipuri.
D) Town Hall, Säynätsalo.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Answer 1

None of the answers is correct.

Question 2

The form of Eero Saarinen's Trans World Airlines (TWA) Terminal at Kennedy Airport was made possible by the use of:

A) geodesic principles.
B) Corten steel.
C) advanced curtain-wall construction.
D) poured-in-place concrete.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Answer 2

poured-in-place concrete.

Question 3

At the University of Pennsylvania, Louis I. Kahn received an architectural education based on the methods of the:

A) Bauhaus.
B) Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
C) German Polytechnic Institutes.
D) Philadelphia School.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Answer 3

Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

Question 4

Robert Venturi's Post-Modern architectural publication is titled:

A) After the International Style.
B) Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.
C) The Language of Post-Modern Architecture.
D) From Bauhaus to Our House.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 5

The work of Charles Moore brought to Post-Modernism:

A) environmental conservation.
B) a gentle but studied playfulness.
C) mathematical rigor.
D) local influence.
E) a highly erudite and complex style.

Question 6

All of the following are projects by Zaha Hadid EXCEPT the:

A) Bergisel Ski-jump in Innsbruck.
B) Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein.
C) Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Arts in Cincinnati.
D) Parc de la Villette in Paris.
E) All of the answers are correct.

Question 7

Frank Gehry made the exterior walls of his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain from:

A) porcelain.
B) bookmatched marble.
C) copper.
D) titanium.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 8

Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas first established himself as a thinker about urbanism with his book titled:

A) Paris in the Spring.
B) Delirious New York.
C) Learning from Las Vegas.
D) Silent Spring.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 9

All of the following architects designed buildings in the classical tradition EXCEPT:

A) Peter Eisenman.
B) Allan Greenberg.
C) Léon Krier.
D) Aldo Rossi.
E) All of the answers are correct.

Question 10

Samuel Mockbee produced his unusual work through something called the:

A) Atelier Rustica.
B) Rural Studio.
C) Hale County Register.
D) Bauhaus South.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 11

The particular challenge confronting Japanese architects after World War II was how to:

A) build traditional structures using modern materials.
B) synthesize traditional Japanese values and principles with modern political, economic, and technological realities.
C) build modern structures using traditional wood building techniques.
D) move beyond traditional Japanese values using architecture as a catalyst.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 12

All of the following are features of Maya Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial EXCEPT:

A) using the Lincoln Memorial as a backdrop.
B) a walkway carved into the earth.
C) a granite-veneer wall with names.
D) a bronze sculpture of heroic soldiers.
E) All of the answers are correct.

Question 13

At the Church of Cristo Obrero in Atlántida near Montevideo, Uruguay, Eladio Dieste used:

A) a geodesic dome on the roof.
B) local brick and hollow clay tiles.
C) titanium columns.
D) reinforced-concrete walls.
E) a roof supported by steel cables.

Question 14

A feature of Richard Meier's High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, is:

A) the presence of a glass dome above the atrium.
B) the liberal use of stucco.
C) the dominant circulation path around the circumference of a quarter-cylinder glass-enclosed atrium.
D) the curving gables, spiky towers, and richly textured façades.
E) the innards of the building were allowed to become the principal architectural expression.

Question 15

Steven Holl has proven to be particularly adept at:

A) sustainable design.
B) manipulating natural light.
C) exposing the inner working of his buildings on the outside.
D) quoting ironically from the forms of traditional architecture.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 16

At the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien paid homage to the nearby:

A) Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry.
B) Diamond Ranch School by Morphosis.
C) Salk Institute by Louis I. Kahn.
D) Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels by Rafael Moneo.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 17

The early works of Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam can be found in and around:

A) Boston, Massachusetts.
B) Hale County, Alabama.
C) Atlanta, Georgia.
D) Charlotte, North Carolina.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 18

The winner of the competition held to replace the World Trade Center towers was:

A) Steven Holl.
B) Daniel Libeskind.
C) Phillip Johnson.
D) Rem Koolhaas.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 19

Jean Nouvel's Torre Agbar in Barcelona is meant to be:

A) a critique of the American skyscraper.
B) a condemnation of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia.
C) a representation of violence through its bullet shape.
D) an architectural study of monochromism.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 20

An architect with a specialty in building bridges, especially those with masts for suspension cables, is:

A) Jean Nouvel.
B) Daniel Libeskind.
C) Santiago Calatrava.
D) Jacques Herzog.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 21

A principal architectural feature of the Pompidou Center in Paris is that the:

A) walls of this building are made of automobile windshields.
B) dragonlike apperception of this building is created by steel-reinforced-concrete walls and a roof supported by steel cables.
C) innards of the building are allowed to become the principal architectural expression.
D) side-by-side gable roofs are supported by a thin steel frame.
E) material used for building is quilted aluminum with panels arranged in a grid and with sections strategically folded.

Question 22

At the center of James Stirling's Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany, there is a(n):

A) steel-framed rotunda with translucent "vaults."
B) concrete rotunda with a glass dome.
C) open-air stone rotunda with an internal ramp.
D) tiered glass tower.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 23

An architect who did nautical design, resulting in the superstructures of the sister ships Crown Princess (1989) and Regal Princess (1991), is:

A) Richard Rogers.
B) Renzo Piano.
C) Santiago Calatrava.
D) James Stirling.
E) Jean Nouvel.

Question 24

Norman Foster's Reichstag rotunda is entirely enclosed in:

A) titanium.
B) marble veneer from Carrara.
C) glass.
D) aluminum.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 25

Glenn Murcutt's buildings in and around Sydney, Australia, have forms that largely respond to:

A) sustainable design.
B) economical design.
C) structurally efficient design.
D) traditional Australian buildings.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 26

Discuss the evolution of the architectural work of Alvar Aalto.

Question 27

Discuss the attributes of Louis I. Kahn as an architect whose work was unique in the twentieth century.

Question 28

Discuss the characteristics of Post-Modernism.

Question 29

Discuss the work of Frank Gehry in the context of architectural sculpture.

Question 30

Describe the influence of Modernism on Japanese architecture through the works of Kenzo Tange, Tadao Ando, and Fumihiko Maki.

Question 31

Discuss the features of "sustainable architecture" using the work of Glenn Murcutt.