Architecture Practice Exam Flashcards

A comprehensive set of vocabulary-style flashcards covering major architectural movements, architects, and specific buildings from modernism to deconstructivism.

Ornament and Crime

The title of the manifesto written by Adolf Loos.

Raumplan

A three-dimensional spatial composition in which room heights depend on their function and importance.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The architect who coined the famous phrase 'Less is more'.

Mies van der Rohe's buildings

Notable designs include the Seagram Building and the Farnsworth House.

Paimio Sanatorium

A building characterized by a combination of functionalism and humanism, solariums, and ceiling heating.

Metabolist movement

An architectural movement asserting that architecture should allow continuous growth and transformation, cities are organisms of replaceable cells, and responding to post-war urban chaos.

Radical modernism

Characterized by a belief in universal aesthetics, strict functionalism, monumentality, radical formal logic, and treating humans as rational users.

Humanistic modernism representatives

Architects such as Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen, and Louis Kahn.

Nakagin Capsule Tower

An architectural work built in Tokyo in 1970.

Maciej Nowicki

An architect who worked within the movement of Modernism.

Charles Jencks

The individual who first used the term 'postmodernism' in architecture.

'Less is more' in Postmodernism

A feature that does NOT belong to the postmodern architectural movement.

Michael Graves

The architect who won the Portland competition and designed the building nicknamed the 'Doghouse'.

Simulacra

In postmodern architecture, these are copies without an original model, historical references, and facades creating an illusion of the past that simulate reality.

AT&T Building

A building that Philip Johnson famously compared to a Chippendale cabinet.

Arenes de Picasso

A building nicknamed 'Versailles for the Poor' because cheap prefabricated elements were dressed in neoclassical details.

Tadao Ando

An architect who represented the principles of Critical Regionalism.

New Urbanism

A return to mixed-use development, walkability, and community integration, creating a readable city with identity and atmosphere.

Marek Budzyński's buildings

The University Library in Warsaw and the Supreme Court Building in Warsaw.

Double coding

A message in postmodern architecture directed simultaneously to architectural elites and the general public.

Deconstructivism

An architectural style focused on the fragmentation and reorganization of form, abstraction, distortion, and event architecture provoking controversy.

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman

A Russian Constructivist artwork by Vera Mukhina that influenced deconstructivists.

Parc de la Villette

A project based on the rejection of the traditional park, using architecture of events and a composition of points, lines, and surfaces.

1988 MoMA exhibition

The event in New York where deconstructivism was symbolically established.

Frank Gehry's Santa Monica house

A residence that caused controversy due to its use of junkyard materials and a collage-like combination of elements.

Dancing House

A building in Prague inspired by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Coop Himmelb(l)au

The architectural firm that designed Paneum, MOCAPE, and High School #9.

Jewish Museum in Berlin (Symbolism)

Its shape symbolizes a deconstructed Star of David.

Main axes of the Jewish Museum in Berlin

The Axis of Continuity, the Axis of the Holocaust, and the Axis of Exile.

City of Culture of Galicia

Located in Santiago de Compostela, this project is characterized by an artificial landform replacing a hilltop and is a symbol of architectural hubris and economic crisis.

House of Bohdan Lachert and Józef Szanajca

Located in Saska Kępa, it is considered the icon of the Warsaw School's machine-age functionalism.

Supersam and Żyletkowiec

Post-war buildings that continued the ideas of the Warsaw avant-garde.

Kraków School

Known for using folk motifs and crystalline forms, specifically triangular mannerism and knife-like forms.

Kraków crystalline and classicizing architects

Key figures include Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz, Wacław Nowakowski, and Ludwik Wojtyczko.