Paris
A French expression originally used by the military to
describe advance troops, came to be applied to all forms of culture that consciously
rejected the status quo
What is avant-garde?
Britain’s most important colony and the new capital of India
What is New Delhi?
An influential figure who designed gardens with plants typically seen as uncultivated, common, or garden weeds
Who is Burle Marx?
This modernist architecture movement was pioneered by Japanese architects like Kisho Kurokawa, and is most famously associated with buildings like the Nakagin Capsule Tower.
What is Metabolism?
Professor Watson's first name
What is Joseph?
Built by Max Berg in what is now a Polish city and dedicated in 1913 to celebrate the centennial of
the Prussian king’s call to his people to oppose Napoleon
What is Centennial Hall?
A major German disciple of the garden city movement who eventually coupled its planning principles with abstract architectural forms as in the Britz housing estate
Who was Taut?
The Brazilian building that was completed in 1943 in the International Style whose design of gardens and space redefined what it meant to be Brazilian
What is the Ministry of Health and Education?
In 1977, Charles Jencks coined this term to describe the works of architects who were challenging modernism
What is post-modernism?
The title of chapter 24 of Charkraborty's book
What is Imposing Urban Order?
Described the house as a "Machine for Living"
Who is Le Corbusier?
He designed Casa del Fascia in Como
Who is Giuseppe Terragni?
The name and year of the structure designed over Bear Run Creek by Frank Lloyd Wright
What is Falling Water 1935?
This high-rise bank designed by Norman Foster is described in the readings as a large machine, symbolizing an optimistic outlook on China's future economic growth
What is the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank?
The first overall pick of the 2024 NFL Draft
Who is Caleb Williams?
The Britz Estate was built here
Where is Frankfurt, Germany?
Proposed in 1937 it was a Haussmann-like boulevard that adhered to the suggestions of several generations of planners for a new artery through the center of the city.
What was the north-south axis?
How the Batammaliba understand the symbolic spatial interior of their houses to be horizontally and vertically organized.
What is the left was seen as female and the right as male, and the upper floor was seen as feminine while the lower floor was seen as masculine?
This new urban form was developed under the Chinese government, combining manufacturing or institutions like hospitals with housing and other facilities for a wide range of employees
What is the work unit?
Maggie's middle name
What is Joy?
These are the five points written by Le Corbusier and Jeanneret
What is supports, roof-gardens, free plan, long windows, the free facade?
With a surface area of 2.25 million square feet, it would enable Germany to hold mass rallies involving up to one million participants
What is the Konigsplatz?
The architect that revived the interest in vernacular Egyptian architecture, prioritizing these methods when planning the village of New Gourna
Who is Hassan Fathy?
This Japanese house designed by Tadao Ando is notable for its simple concrete forms and its lack of historic and symbolic ornament
What is the Koshino House?
In Letchworth, the middle-class domestic ideal inspired blank
What is Bedford Park?