CLEP Humanities : Answering Other Questions About Modern Architecture
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Example Question #43 : Renaissance To Contemporary Architecture
The modern architectural masterpiece Fallingwater, a residence in rural Pennsylvania, was designed by which architect?
Mies van der Rohe
I.M. Pei
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Gehry
Philip Johnson
Frank Lloyd Wright
Fallingwater is generally considered Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece, as the residence was constructed above and incorporated a waterfall. The residence, built in 1939, blended the interior and exterior of the building into Wright's perfect distillation of his "organic" philosophy of architecture. The property remained a residence for many years, but became a protected site in the mid-1960s.
Example Question #2 : Identifying Artists, Works, Or Schools Of Twentieth And Twenty First Century Architecture
Who was the architect famous for designing a Glass House as his own residence?
Frank Lloyd Wright
Philip Johnson
Mies van der Rohe
I. M. Pei
Frank Gehry
Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson was a modernist architect who sought clean lines, used steel and glass construction, and valued function in his design. Inspired by the Farnsworth House designed by Mies van der Rohe, Johnson designed his own house in Connecticut as made almost entirely of glass. The rectangular abode is now a tourist site, along with Johnson's entire property, including other buildings and his massive art collection.
Example Question #44 : Renaissance To Contemporary Architecture
John Augustus Roebling is the architect responsible for which New York City landmark?
The Statue of Liberty
The Empire State Building
The George Washington Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge
Trinity Church
The Brooklyn Bridge
John Augustus Roebling, a German immigrant, was the leading designer of bridges throughout the mid-nineteenth century in America. His masterpiece, however, was the Brooklyn Bridge, which was the first steel-wire suspension bridge ever built. Unfortunately, Roebling died in 1870, just as it was beginning construction, and his son Washington Roebling had to take over construction.
Example Question #4 : Identifying Artists, Works, Or Schools Of Twentieth And Twenty First Century Architecture
The unfinished Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona was designed by whom?
Enrique Nieto
Joan Miró
Antoni Gaudí
Salvador Dalí
Pablo Picasso
Antoni Gaudí
La Sagrada Familia was planned as a massive church in Barcelona that would rival its Cathedral in size. After breaking ground in 1882, the church is still not totally finished. Importantly, its architect Antoni Gaudí was killed in a 1926 tram accident, and the work had to continue on under architects with different design aesthetics than its singular original designer.
Example Question #3 : Identifying Artists, Works, Or Schools Of Twentieth And Twenty First Century Architecture
The architect Frank Gehry is famous for designing the building for which art museum?
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles
The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago
The Musee D'Orsay in Paris
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
The Museum of Modern Art in New York
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
Gehry, a modernist architect well known for flowing lines and unusual shapes, has built concert halls, museums, and government buildings around the world. Among his most notable works is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, constructed out of titanium and glass, in shapes that are meant to evoke the countryside of Bilbao's Basque region.
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