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100

This Architect claimed that "Form follows function."

Louis Sullivan

100

This style is characterized by rectalinear forms, unornamented surfaces, and exposed materials such as glass, steel, and concrete.

Modernism

100

This style is characterized by low horizontal planes and a connection with the natural environment.

prairie style

100

This building embodies Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture.

Villa Savoye

100

Famous for the prairie style, this architect designed Falling Water and the Robie House.

Frank Lloyd Wright

200

This architect believed that "Less is more."

Mies van der Rohe

200

This style is characterized by organic forms and imagery.

Art-Nouveau

200

These include pilotis, ribbon windows, free plan, free facade, and roof gardens.

the Five Points of Architecture

200

Le Corbusier strayed away from the 'classical modern' style in this building with it's irregular plan, odd geometry and exploration of light and color.

Ronchamp

200

This architect is the writer of the speech 'Ornament and Crime.'

Adolf Loos

300

This Architect believed that "the House is a machine for living in."

Le Corbusier

300

This Dutch style used rectalinear planes and primary colors to expose the objective truth of design.

De Stijl

300

This influential school believed that they could redesign everything to be modern.

Bauhaus

300

Built by Renzo Piano, this building relates to its context with vernacular materials and scale.

Menil Collection

300

This architect is one of the 'founding fathers' of modern architecture, and the first director of the Bauhaus.

Walter Gropius

400

"Visual Dessert"

Ray Eames

400

This style was a return to historical references and ornament.

Post-Modernism

400

As seen in the Villa Muller, this is a complex arrangement of interlocking spaces.

Raumplan

400

Designed for the World's Fair, this building used and exposed industrial materials in an inventive and delicate piece of architecture.

the Crystal Palace

400

This german architect was the last director of the Bauhaus and another 'founding father' of the modern style.

Mies van der Rohe

500

This Architect said "I eat Roast Beef."

Adolf Loos

500

This form is defined by the use of exposed concrete and raw materials.

Brutalism

500

"A total work of art."

Gesamtkunstwerk

500

This work by Philip Johnson contrasts his nearby Miesian buildings with a postmodern design.

St. Basil's Chapel at St. Thomas

500

The born name of this architect is Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris.

Le Corbusier

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