Modern Arch II Midterm ON EXAM Questions

What buildings did Victor Horta do?

• hotel tassel

• palais de beaux-arts

• the MET

• Penn Station

What are three things that Antoni Gaudi do?

• casa mila

• made buildings out of stone

• relationship with craftsman

• first architect to graduate from MIT

What are the World’s fair significance from either the paris universelle, paris expo, st louis, or columbian exposistion?

• eiffel tower

• women’s pavilion

• olbrich’s work

• all of the above

What inspired Penn Station

• Baths of Caracalla

• The Craftsman

• Majolica Building

• Winslow House

Olbrich’s identification of Ernst Ludwig Haus?

• House for an Art connosseir

• omega shape

• Classicism

• elegance

What was Adolf Loos' design ideology?

• Simple design on the outside

• Simple design on the inside

• Organic design on the outside

• Columns are cool

What is Gropius ties to Bauhaus

• Founded it

• Co-Founded it

• Was principal

• None of the above

Fagus shoe factory significance?

• Curtain walls

• Stone masonry

• columns

• cedar wood floors

What Otto Wagner buildingconsidered demonstrates Gesamtkunstwerk, and perfectly epitomizes Wagner’s comprehensive approach to building design. It is also nearly trapezoidal. The rectilinear central block is occupied by the main banking hall, and is symmetrically flanked by triangular building wings

• Postal Bank Building

• The MET

• Pennsylvania Station

• Majolica Building

What building here is designed by Josef Hoffmann

• Hoffmann Palais Stoclet

• Palace of Fine Arts

• The Hoffman Building

• First Church of Christ