Study 08/15 08 — Modern Architecture and Its Movements with 12 free online flashcards. Review key terms, definitions, and concepts with this interactive flashcard deck.
What did modern architecture seek instead of copying historical styles?
Modern architecture sought forms suited to modern life through new technologies, functional planning, industrial production, spatial openness, and reduced historical ornament.
What was the Bauhaus’s central educational approach?
The Bauhaus connected fine art, craft, architecture, product design, typography, theater, and photography with industrial production and social purpose.
Which building demonstrates the Bauhaus’s relationship between program and structure?
The Bauhaus Building demonstrates functional differentiation, reinforced-concrete and steel construction, glass enclosure, flexible space, and an asymmetrical composition.
What three principles defined the International Style?
The International Style emphasized architecture as volume, regularity, and no applied ornament.
What are Le Corbusier’s five points of a new architecture?
Le Corbusier’s five points were pilotis, a roof garden or terrace, a free plan, a free façade, and horizontal ribbon windows.
What does “architectural promenade” mean at Villa Savoye?
An architectural promenade is a designed sequence of movement through a building; at Villa Savoye, a ramp turns circulation into a spatial experience.
What social purpose did Constructivist architects assign to architecture?
Constructivism treated architecture as an instrument for organizing revolutionary society, connecting abstract geometry with technology, collective life, and utilitarian production.
What was distinctive about Tatlin’s Tower?
Tatlin’s Tower was an unbuilt project combining symbolic sculpture with functional architecture, including a spiraling steel framework and rotating programmatic volumes.
How did the Narkomfin Building experiment with collective living?
The Narkomfin Building experimented with collective housing through compact apartments, shared facilities, elevated circulation, and reduced private household labor.
What formal aim distinguished Architectural Expressionism?
Architectural Expressionism pursued emotional, spiritual, organic, crystalline, or dynamic forms rather than restrained standardized geometry.
Which building combined a solar-observatory program with an organic form?
The Einstein Tower is an Expressionist solar observatory whose flowing form responds to its scientific program while expressing movement and energy.
What is regional modernism?
Regional modernism adapts modern architecture to local climate, materials, political goals, cultural traditions, and national identity.