Architects
Styles & Movements
Projects
Vocabulary
100

This architect designed Fallingwater, a home built over a waterfall

Frank Lloyd Wright

100

This design philosophy emphasizes simplicity, functionality, and minimal ornamentation.

Bauhaus

100

A famous Bauhaus building located in Weimar, Germany

The Bauhaus School

100

These vertical columns lift a building off the ground in Le Corbusier's designs.

Pilotis or Pillars

200

He developed the 'Five Points of Architecture' and designed Villa Savoye

Le Corbusier

200

This architectural principle uses materials and designs that blend into the natural environment

Organic Architecture

200

This home in Pennsylvania was designed to appear as though it is part of the landscape.

Falling Water

200

This design style/aesthetic includes clean, simple shapes and a lack of decoration.

Minimilism

300

This German architect and founder of the Bauhaus school focused on functional design

Walter Gropius

300

The modernist style rejected this architectural tradition characterized by excessive decoration.

Classical Architecture

300

A key example of Le Corbusier’s design philosophy, this house is supported by pilotis

Villa Savoye

300

An open floor plan allows for fewer interior walls, creating this type of space

Flexible space / Universal space

400

He is best known for the Barcelona Pavillion structure


Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe


400

Le Corbusier’s designs often feature this open layout with fewer interior walls

Open floor plan

400

This building, named for the Spanish city where it was constructed for the 1929 world fair, was torn down and then rebuilt in the 1980s. 

Barcelona Pavilion

400

This building material became central to modern architecture for its strength and versatility

Reinforced concrete

500

He believed a building should be in harmony with it's natrual environment

Frank Lloyd Wright

500

This Bauhaus principle prioritizes the seamless merging of art and industrial production.

"Form follows function" 

500

This project introduced the idea of modular, prefabricated housing units in modern architecture.

Unite d'Habitation

500

This term refers to designing structures in harmony with their natural surroundings.

Organic Architecture