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Lecture 17
German Werkbund
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History
Undergraduate 2
05/08/2011

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1. ceramics

2. stone masonry

3. carpentry

4. curtain wall of woven fabric

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Name the four types of construction that Semper used to order The Four Elements of Architecture
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Romanesque
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What past style did Semper champion as being capable of further development?
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Propylaea
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What was the precedent for the Bradenburg Gate?
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Semper
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The first theoreticism to speculate about the woven qualities of the primitive curtain wall was
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Wagner
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The German artist usually credited as having coined the term "gesamtkunstwerk" is
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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The Wasmuth Volumes documented the early work of
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Loos
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The term, raumplan, was devised by _____ to describe his interiors which incorporated interpenetrations of spaces.
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Loos
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The Steiner House was designed by
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artist's will or ability to generate form
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Define Kuntswollen
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Kuntswollen
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The German term for an individual "imposing one's artistic will" upon a design problem is
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Muthesius
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The German architectural writer who mythologized the English Arts & Crafts house at the term of the century was
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Model Factory
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Gropius was responsible for the design of what building at the 1914 Cologne Exhibition?
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a. Behrens

b. Paul

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Name two leading designers that were placed in charge of a major German school of design prior to WWI
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attempted to misrepresent reality of objects they were trying to improve
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Loo's major criticism of the Deutscher Werkbund was that it 
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Gropius, Mason City Bank
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The Deutscher Werkbund chose ______ todesign the model factory for its 1914 Cologne Exhibition. The final design was influenced by what Wright building?
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AEG
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Peter Behrens was hired by ______ to redesign its coroporate image.
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Loos
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The author of "Ornament and Crime" was
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Behrens
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AEG of Germany hired _____ to redesign its entire image, production, and buildings.
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Muthesius, Hoffman, Moser
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One of the three founders of the Deutrscher Werkbund was
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Model Factory
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Gropius was responsible for what building at the 1914 Deustcher Werkbund Exhibition?
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Muthesius
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Das Englische Haus was written by
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trying to overdesign and control too much
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What was Loos' opinion of Gesamtkunstwerk?
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Kahn's was just a factory, Behren looked at his as a piece of art.
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What was the primary difference in inention between a Kahn-designed factory and a Behrens-designed AEG factory?
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Deutscher Werkbund
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The ________ was founded to encourage the improvement of machine production in Germany.
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Nietzsche
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Behrens was greatly influenced by which philosopher?
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English Arts & Crafts
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Herman Muthesius used which type of building as the model for Germany to emulate in order to improve its building design?
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Fagus has volumes bursting out of its structure, and the columns are inset.  AEG has columns that stick out of the volumes and emphasizes the corner.
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How can one view the design of the Fagus factory as the inverse of the AEG turbine factory?
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overdesigned & too controlling
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What was Loos' criticism of Behren's designs?
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"Ornament and Crime"
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Adolf Loos' major written treatise on architecture was
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Gropius
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The Fagus Works was designed by
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Semper
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The German architectural theorist who noted the inferior quality of German manufactured goods at the 1851 World's Fair was
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