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Architecture in English II

Final Exam Period 2Fall 2012

Friday, January 18, 2013

The Salt Works at ChauxAltes MuseumGalarie des MachinesPostparkasse (Post Bank)Loos HouseWainwright BuildingMondanock BuildingSchroeder HouseRobie HouseVilla SavoyeBauhausSeagram’s BuildingFalling WaterExeter LibraryThermal Baths

Date: 1990 -96 Architect: Peter Zumthor

Thermal Baths - Basel, Switzerland

Date: 1775 - 79 Architect: Claude Nicholas LeDoux

The Salt Works at Chaux: Arc - en Senans, France

Date: 1904 - 05 AD Architect: Otto Wagner

Postparkasse (Postal Savings Bank) - Vienna

Date: 1909 - 10 AD Architect: Adolf Loos

Loos House - Vienna

Date: 1906 -10 AD Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

Robie House - Oak Park, Illinois

Le Corbusier Villa Savoye

1. Five points of architecture (pilotis, strip windows, roof gardens, open floor plan, facade separate from the mass of building)2. Machine for living3. Separated from the site

Date: 1929 Architect: Le Corbusier

Villa Savoye - Poissy, France

Walter Gropius The Bauhaus

1. International Style2. Pinwheel Plan3. Complete school of design (architecture, textile, household goods, etc) 4. Use of concrete, steel and glass

Date: 1925 - 26 Architect: Walter Gropius

Bauhaus - Dessau, Germany

Date: 1934 ~ Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

Falling Water - Bear Run, Pennsylvania

Louis Kahn Exeter Library

1. Classical Modernism2. Pure Geometries Bilateral Symmetry3. Doughnut Concept4. Use of Natural Light

Date: 1967 -72 Architect: Louis Kahn

Phillips Exeter Academy Library - Exeter, New Hampshire

Peter Zumthor Thermal Baths

1. Phenomenological Architecture2. Use of Materials to create individual experience3. Minimalist4. Modern Vernacular5. Simplicity of Form

Date: 1824 Architect: Fredrick Shinkel

Altes Museum - Berlin, Germany

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