Architecture midterm review- second half

Borromini tried hard to reconcile with _____ _____

sacred geometry

Borromini was more of a ____ than Bernini.

perfectionist

What style of architect were both Bernini and Borromini?

Italian baroque

What were Bernini and Borromini both moving away from?

Being so precise with geometry

Doric columns are less ____ than Ionic and can hold more ____.

decorative, weight

Soane was very much influenced by ____.

Piranesi

Piranesi’s pillar ordonnance was more concerned with ____ .

ornament and grandiosity

Alberti’s ordonnance was more concerned with ____.

scale

Architect of the ideal city of Chaux

Ledoux

Ledoux’s buildings clearly show their ____.

intention, use

The designs of ____ are much less obvious than those of ____ and ____.

Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu

Boullée was supported by _____ ____ who wanted ____.

French revolutionaries, democracy

Boullée showed a movement away from the ___.

past

What idealistic place did Lequeu design?

The Island of Love and Fisherman’s Rest

What did the Island of Love and Fisherman’s Rest symbolize?

The peace people imagined for after the French unrest was over.

Boullée, Lequeu, and Ledoux were all ____.

French

This building shows Piranesi in all his glory

Santa Maria del Prioratto

Piranesi was very interested in ____ architecture and the ___.

impossible, past

What feelings does the Sublime evoke?

terror, overwhelm, intimidation, awe, respect, innumerability, darkness, largeness

What did Britain and its architects look back to?

The Roman empire

The Picturesque blends the ____ and the ____.

sublime, beautiful

William Chambers known for his ___ at ___ _____.

follies, Kew Garden

What were Chambers’s three follies?

The Alhambra, Mosque, and Pagoda.

What does “walking through the world” symbolize as one walks through the follies, each in a different country’s style?

The idea that Britain was not just the land you were on but had a wider, global, empirical reach.

Who designed Stourhead and where was it?

Henry Hoare, England

Stourhead included mini ____.

pantheons

Who designed the Temple of Ancient Virtue and where was it?

William Kent, Stowe in England

Architecture became a _____ ____ during a time lacking unity with lots of feudal kingdoms.

unifying force

Which building of Schinkel’s alluded back to Rome and showed he knew his history?

The Altes Museum in Berlin

This building was revolutionary in Germany because of its lack of ornament

Bauakademie by Schinkel, his response to industrial factories he saw in England

Who designed the Crystal Palace?

Joseph Paxton

William Morris didn’t want his wallpaper designs to be for ____, but they did indeed become _____ ____.

aristocrats, luxury items

Who designed the Red House?

William Morris and Philip Webb in England

What was given to Queen Victoria and designed by Bhai Ram Singh in 1891?

The Durbar Room in the Osborne House on the Isle of Wight

What architect did American colonial style return to?

Palladio

What was Thomas Jefferson’s magnum opus?

The University of Virginia campus

Whose library ended up starting the Library of Congress?

Thomas Jefferson’s

What was Thomas Jefferson’s vacation home called?

Poplar Forest

Key concepts of American colonial architecture (5, RULLIC)

Return to Palladio, utopia, labor & liberty, involvement of slavery, construction of a nation

What building of Jefferson’s was inspired by a Greco Roman building he saw in Rome?

Richmond State Capitol Building

What was the name of Thomas Jefferson’s home estate/plantation?

Monticello

What did Jefferson do to hide slaves because he was embarrassed he owned them?

He planted trees to separate their quarters and crops from the main house and planned out ways to hide them when guests were over in his floor plans.

Westernization as _____

modernization

What did Frank Lloyd Wright (and others) consider himself?

a genius

What is this building, who designed it, and where is it?

Rokumeikan, Josiah Conder, Tokyo, Japan

Wright’s Imperial Hotel failed to blend and was instead neither ___ nor ___.

eastern, western

Name, architect, purpose?

Panopticon, Jeremy Bentham, prison

The brickwork for the Imperial Hotel was inspired by ____ ____

Mayan ruins

Key concepts of German architecture in early 1800s (6, ECLERI)

elevation, complex relationship with architectural styles, living within a variety of histories, establishing a collective German identity, romantical understanding of Germany, industrialization

Key concepts of British architecture in the 1800s (4, GIRD)

Gothic Revivalism, Industrial Revolution, relationship with India, decorative arts