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Study Guide: Finals
who designed Robie House? |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
what is cartilever? |
overhangs on buildings that project horizontally from support |
what is Bauhaus? |
architectural design school, Germany, 1919 |
who is Mies van der Rohe? |
came out of Bauhaus, Barcelona pavillion, 1929. Fled to u.s. and his international style came with him, he was a teacher at Bauhaus |
what did mid 2oth century architecture look like? |
sleek design, gemoetric purity, everything derived from the 'grid,' white, sparseness, unadorned surfaces, stainless steel and glass, color used sparingly, called modernism |
what does post-modernism architecture look like? |
reaction against modernism, used apropriation, blacky, playful, colorful, ornamentation |
who designed the Disney Hall, L.A.? |
Frank Gehry |
who is Andy Warhol? |
pop culture artist who used silkscreen, subject matter was movie stars, politicians' wives, consumer goods |
who were the pop artists? |
andy warhol, jasper johns, roy lichtenstein, robert rauschenberg, claes oldenburg & coojse van brueggen, george segal |
where is the Wainright building? |
St. Louis, MO- world's 1st skyscraper |
what does the spiral mean in spiral jetty? |
linked to growth cycles, always moving and active, constantly changing, will disappear one day |
Louis Sullivan |
post-modernistic architect who designed the first sky scraper (in st. louis) the wainwright building |
I.M. Pei |
glass pyramids. built a pyramid in the middle of lourve museum |
Niepce |
made the first fixed image, 1826, France |
Dorothea Lange |
social realism, photographer, picture of bread lines and the poor. part of the Works Progress Association (WPA). |
Maya Lin |
designed the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial and Civil Rights Memorial |
Lichtenstein |
pop artist |
Oldenburg & Van Brueggen |
pop artists |
Rauschenberg |
random used collages to recombine things |
Christo & Jean Clause |
running fence and the umbrellas |
Robert Smithson |
spiral jetty, land art |
Andy Goldsworhty |
used only materials he finds on site |
Jim Denevan |
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Walter de Maria |
Lightning field |
Michael Heizer |
double negative |
Wolfgang Laib |
brings natural things into an indoor setting, spends months gathering things |
Nancy Holt |
sun tunnels |
Running fence and the umbrellas |
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lightning field |
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double negative |
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vietnam veteran;s memorial civil rights memorial |
Definition |
guggenheim museum |
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