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A famous Art Deco–style skyscraper standing proudly at 1,046 feet tall.
What is the Chrysler Building?
This architect believed that "the House is a machine for living in."
Who is Le Corbusier?
This architect is one of the 'founding fathers' of modern architecture, and the first director of the Bauhaus.
Who is Walter Gropius?
The art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.
What is architecture?
This style is characterized by low horizontal planes and a connection with the natural environment.
What is the prairie style?
The iconic 190-metre monument in St. Louis designed by Eero Saarinen
What is the Gateway Arch?
This architect believed that "Less is more."
Who is Mies van der Rohe?
This architect is the writer of the speech 'Ornament and Crime.'
Who is Adolf Loos?
The architectural drawing of a building's exterior.
What is an elevation?
An evolution of early Modernist principles in Europe characterized by monolithic skyscrapers, flat roofs, and ubiquitous glazing.
What is the International Style?
The tallest building in the world in 1940.
What is the Empire State Building?
This architect's principle was that "Form ever follows function."
Who is Louis Sullivan?
The architect who coined the term ‘international style’
Who is Philip Johnson?
Pilotis, ribbon windows, free plan, free facade, and roof gardens.
What are Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture?
A distinctive style characterized by an emphasis on function, little ornamentation, and a fusion of balanced forms and abstract shapes
What is the Bauhaus style?
The building that most embodies the Five Points of Architecture.
What is Villa Savoye?
This architect believed that “There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners”
Who is Antoni Gaudi?
This American architect has been called the "father of skyscrapers"
Who is Louis Sullivan?
A patented system based on the principles of the tile vault, a Mediterranean technique dating to 1382 that uses thin clay tiles and plaster.
What is the Guastavino vaulting?
This architectural style is defined by the extensive use of exposed concrete and raw materials.
What is Brutalism?
The inventive and delicate building designed for the 1851 World's Fair, and built using exposed industrial materials.
What is the Crystal Palace?
According to this architect “The job of the architect today is to create beautiful buildings. That's all”
Who is Philip Johnson?
The born name of this architect is Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris.
Who is Le Corbusier?
"A total work of art."
What's a Gesamtkunstwerk?
This Dutch style used rectalinear planes and primary colors to expose the objective truth of design.
What is De Stijl?