Modern Architecture and Urbanism Final Exam Study Guide

A comprehensive collection of vocabulary terms covering key architects, buildings, urban plans, and architectural terminology from the 19th and 20th centuries as presented in the lecture notes.

Bridge (over Severn River)

Designed by Abraham Darby and located in Coalbrookdale, U.K.

Georges-Eugène Haussmann

Urban Planner responsible for the Urban plan of Paris.

Camillo Sitte

Architect/urbanist who created the plan for the site of the Votive Church in Vienna.

Opera House (Paris)

Designed by architect Charles Garnier and located in Paris, France.

Les Halles Market

Designed by architect Victor Baltard and located in Paris, France.

Crystal Palace

Designed by architect Joseph Paxton and located in London.

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Designed by architects Thomas Deane and Benjamin Woodward in Oxford, U.K.

Red House of William and Jane Morris

Designed by architect Philip Webb and located in London, U.K.

Maison du Peuple

Designed by architect Victor Horta and located in Brussels, Belgium.

Subway or Metro Entrance (Paris)

Designed by architect Hector Guimard.

Hôtel Tassel

Designed by architect Victor Horta and located in Brussels, Belgium.

Casa Mila la Pedrera

Designed by architect Antoni Gaudí and located in Barcelona, Spain.

Monadnock Building

Designed by architects Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root in Chicago.

Wainwright Building

Designed by architect Louis Sullivan and located in St. Louis, MO.

Schlessinger, Meyer Building=Carson, Pirie, Scott

Designed by architect Louis Sullivan and located in Chicago, IL.

Larkin Building

Designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and located in Buffalo, NY.

Port Sunlight

Designed by architect William Owen and located near Liverpool, U.K.

Saltaire community

Designed by architects Henry Lockwood and William Mawson in Bradford, U.K.

Secession Building

Designed by architect Josef Maria Olbrich and located in Vienna, Austria.

Karlsplatz Train Station

Designed by architect Otto Wagner and located in Vienna, Austria.

Austrian Postal Savings Bank = Österreichische Postsparkasse

Designed by architect Otto Wagner and located in Vienna, Austria.

Merzbau

Designed by architect Kurt Schwitters and located in Hanover, Germany.

Drawing of a Proun Room

Created by architect El Lissitzky.

Corner Counter Relief

Created by architect Vladimir Tatlin.

Monument to the Third International (model)

Created by architect Vladimir Tatlin.

City of Tomorrow (proposal)

An urban proposal by architect Le Corbusier.

Villa Savoye

Designed by architect Le Corbusier and located in Poissy, France.

Fagus Shoe Factory or Fagus-Werk

Designed by architect Walter Gropius and located in Alfeld-an-der-Leine, Germany.

Bauhaus School (Dessau)

Designed by architect Walter Gropius and located in Dessau, Germany.

Masters' Houses

Designed by architect Walter Gropius and located in Dessau, Germany.

Casa del Fascio

Designed by architect Giuseppe Terragni and located in Como, Italy.

Train Station Proposal (Futurism)

Designed by architect Antonio Sant'Elia.

Palazzo della Civiltà Romana

Designed by architects Ernesto La Padula, Giovanni Guerrini, and Mario Romano in Rome.

Government House or Viceroy's Palace

Designed by architect Edwin Lutyens and located in New Delihi, India.

Palace of Assembly

Designed by architect Le Corbusier and located in Chandigarh, India.

Ministry of Education and Health

Designed by architects Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer in Rio di Janeiro, Brazil.

Plan of Brasilia

Created by urban planner Lucio Costa.

National Assembly Building (Brasilia)

Designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and located in Brasilia, Brazil.

Supreme Federal Court

Designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and located in Brasilia, Brazil.

Lovell Health House

Designed by architect Richard Neutra and located in Los Angeles, CA.

PSFS Building (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)

Designed by architects William Lescaze and George Howe in Philadelphia, PA.

Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology

Designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Chicago, IL.

National Assembly Building of Bangladesh

Designed by architect Louis Kahn and located in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Villa Mairea

Designed by architect Alvar Aalto and located in Noormarkku, Finland.

Stahl House

Designed by architect Pierre Koenig and located in Los Angeles, CA.

Installation for the Chinati Foundation

Created by architect Donald Judd and located in Marfa, TX.

Robin Hood Garden Estate

Designed by architects Alison and Peter Smithson in London, U.K.

New Babylon

Concept by architect Constant.

Plug-in City

Concept by architect Peter Cook.

Walking City

Concept by architect Ron Herron.

Nagakin Capsule Tower

Designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa and located in Tokyo, Japan.

House of Vanna Venturi

Designed by architect Robert Venturi and located in Philadelphia, PA.

Guild Hall

Designed by architects Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi in Philadelphia, PA.

Parc de la Villette

Designed by architect Bernard Tschumi and located in Paris, France.

House of Frank Gehry

Designed by architect Frank Gehry and located in Santa Monica, CA.

Continuous Monument

Concept by architects Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (Superstudio).

axonometric

A method of drawing that represents a building three-dimensionally without applying the rules of one-point perspective, allowing the horizontal and vertical distances to remain drawn to scale.

brise soleil

The French term for "sun breaker," a screen or fin that provides shade from the sun.

cast iron

A hard alloy of iron and carbon that can be cast in a mold.

Constructivism

A movement in sculpture and architecture where abstract forms are arranged according to the structural requirements that hold things together in a construction.

Pilotis

Slender vertical posts or stilts raising a structure above the earth, freeing up the ground level; a term embraced by Le Corbusier.

tenement

A densely inhabited apartment building for working people.