Architecture Flashcards by Fred Schultz | Brainscape

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Designer of White House

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James Hoban

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Designer of US Capital and Boston State House

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Charles Bulfinch

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Designer of Woolworth Building in NY City

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Gilbert Cass

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Designer of TWA terminal at JFK airport

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Eero Saarinen

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Designer of World Trade Center arch

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Minoru Yamasaki

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Designer of Taj Mahal

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Shah Jihan

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Designer of Bauhaus building (Germany)

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Walter Gropius

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Designer of St. Paul’s Cathedral - 1669

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Christopher Wren

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Designer of Imperial Hotel in Japan

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Designer of Barcelona Chair

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Mies Van Der Rohe

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He influenced Frank Lloyd Wright

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Louis Henry Sullivan

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Designer of Layout for Washington D.C.

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Pierre L’Enfant

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Designer of Guggenheim Museum

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Designer of Central Park in NY City

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Charles Law Olmstead

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Designer of Geodesic dome

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R. Buckminster Fuller

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Designer of Glass Pyramid at the Louvre

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I.M. Pei

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Designer of West tower of Westminster Abbey

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Christopher Wren

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Designer of Vietnam War Memorial

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Maya Lin

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Designer of Tulip Chair

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Eero Saarinen

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Covered walk supported by columns

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Portico

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Swiss architect who designed houses on stilts

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Le Corbusier

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Architectural style popular in the 1920’s and 30’s

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Art Deco (Chrysler Building)

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Architectural style popular between 1875-1914

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Art Nouveau

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Mid-nineteenth century English Style

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Victorian

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Gothic exterior beastly figures

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Gargoyles

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Architectural style of Notre Dame Cathedral

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Gothic

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Hagia Sofia architecture style

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Byzantine

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Designer of Presidential palace in Brasilia

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Oscar Neimeyer

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Central stone of an arch

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Keystone

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Riverboat - Bridge and Mississippi River jetty designer

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James Eads

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Covered arched walkway at a monastery

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Cloister

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“Flying” support

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Buttress

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Types of columns in architecture

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Ionic; Doric; Corinthian

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Designer of high pitched roof that bears his name

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Francois Mansard

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“Less is more style” in architecture

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Mies Van der Rohe

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Designer of Gateway Arch in St. Louis

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Eero Saarinen

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Designer of New Reich Chancellery

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Albert Speer

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Horizontal beam supported at only one end

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Cantilever