Modern Architecture & Design II (Quizzes)

T/F The Art Nouveau movement had few practitioners in the United States.

• True

• False

T/F Loie Fuller was an French-born dancer who brought her ground-breaking dances to amazed audiences in the United States.

• True

• False

What invention became a immense attraction at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago?

• Louis Sullivan's Transportation Building

• A huge gold painted sculpture of a female figure representing Columbia

• Sophia Hayden's Women's Building

• The Ferris Wheel

Why am I so down on Daniel Burnham? He was, after all, an important figure in urban design and designed many important buildings.

• Because he did little to further modernism and, in fact, did much to impede it. He lacked the imagination

  that his partner John Root had. Root died in 1891.

• Because he broke with the aesthetics of all the other fair architects.

The Greene brothers studied at the Manual School for the Arts in St.

Louis. This training may have been partly responsible for their affection

for exposed joints and connectors. Certainly, attention to the manner in

which ____ craftsmen exposed and celebrated joints was also

integral to their thinking. Also, much to their delight, they found in

California something that was unavailable in the East: strong, straight

lumber that could withstand exposure to the elements and not rot such as

_____ .

• Japanese; redwood

• Bengail; Eastern Hemlock

• French; white pine

• Mexicans; pear wood

Bernard ____ was one of the leading lights of the California Arts and

Crafts movement, but he was not a purist of any particular stripe as

evidenced by his very ____ pavilion at the San Francisco 1915

World Exhibition (the pavilion I showed surrounded by water).

• Maybeck; Beaux-arts

• Lindbergh; Second Empire

• Morgan; Queen Anne

• Rubble; Edwardian

This sideboard is similar in many ways to a cabinet I showed that was

designed by Charles Frances Annesley Voysey, who was an Englishman.

The one pictured was designed and manufactured in the United States by

Gustav _____ . It is a consummate example of arts and crafts furniture

(which is also know in this country as _____ style or Mission style).

Its characteristics are exposed joints; expressive hardware; simplicity; and

carefully finished solid wood as opposed to _____ .

• Stickley; Craftsman; veneer

• Lutyens; Min-century modern; plastic

• Klimt; Crossover; plastic laminate

• Mahler; Craftsman; plastic

Moorcrag was designed by its architect, CFA Voysey, to be what?

• A site specific house, designed for its location.

• A house that did not have roots, a model and form that could be built on

  any site.

Who does Ms. Carlquist say was Frank Lloyd Wright's only admitted mentor?

• William Gray Purcell

• George Elmslie

• Louis Sullivan

• H. H. Richardson

T/F William Grey Purcell coined the term "Prairie Style" for his houses.

• True

• False