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Cards In This Set
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A switch from the ribbon window to the use of floor to ceiling glazing marked the work in the 1930s of
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Le Corbusier
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The centrosoyuz headquarters in moscow was designed by
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Le Corbusier
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Where did Le Corbusier get the idea for linear housing and cities
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Luxury Cruise Liners
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Plan of a cartesian skyscraper and reason for its configuration
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 Image |
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Frank Lloyd Wright's design of the Johnson Wax building can be best described as his interpretation of what style?
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International
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The major design innovatioon in the Usonian houses that influenced the design of Post WWII suburban tract homes was...
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Modularity, cheap
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2 major details that Wright used in the Usonian house to control construction costs:
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Standardized units
self finished materials |
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Usionian house was designed by..
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FLW
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Broadace City was a project envisioned by
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FLW
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The cleint for Wright's "Fallingwater" house was...
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Kaufman
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Sketch how the RCA building meets the ground
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 See image |
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List two important differences in the American city in 1960 between the actual International Style design and the prediction of Bel Geddes in the 1939 GM Pavillion
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Glass Box
Building holds street corner |
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List @ aspects of the design of the Rockefeller Center that contribute to it success as an urban space
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Public plaza/street traffic
pedestrian level below the sidewalk |
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The roof terraces in Rockefeller Center were said to be influenced by what ancient precedent?
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Hanging gardens of Babylon
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The trademark image of the 1939 Worlds Fair was the
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Perisphere and Trylon
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