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Exploring Modern Architecture: A Quiz on Key Concepts and Figures

Test your knowledge of modern architecture with this engaging quiz that covers key concepts, influential figures, and significant movements in the field.

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1 By the 1980s, postmodern architecture appeared triumphant over modernism; however, postmodern ________ lacked traction and by the mid-1990s, a neo-modern (or hypermodern) architecture had once again established international pre-eminence.

2 In 1796, ________ mill owner Charles Bage first used his 'fireproof' design, which relied on cast iron and brick with flag stone floors.

3 In 1932 came the important ________ exhibition, the International Exhibition of Modern Architecture, curated by Philip Johnson.

4 Muthesius was the author of a three-volume "The English House" of 1905, a survey of the practical lessons of the English ________ and a leading political and cultural commentator.

5 Mies van der Rohe and Gropius were both directors of the ________, one of a number of European schools and associations concerned with reconciling craft tradition and industrial technology.

6 It gained popularity after the Second World War and became the dominant architectural style for institutional and corporate buildings for three decades, covering practically most of the ________ era.

7 Some historians see the evolution of Modern architecture as a social matter, closely tied to the project of ________ and thus the Enlightenment.

8 Other historians regard Modernism as a matter of taste, a reaction against eclecticism and the lavish stylistic excesses of Victorian Era and Edwardian ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the barrel vault (pictured) was developed chiefly by the ancient Greeks and Romans, but endured to be a mainstay of medieval and even modern architecture.
  • the Neutra Office Building, once the office of Modernist architect Richard Neutra, is said to be the only commercial structure that is still intact with Neutra's original design.
  • the post office in Middleport, New York, is one of only three in the state using the same Colonial Revival-modernist design.
  • the Lake George, New York, post office features aspects of modernistic and Art Deco architecture on a basic Colonial Revival building.
  • shortly after architect Ralph Anderson's early "modernist glass-box phase" he began rehabilitating turn-of-the-century buildings (example pictured) in Seattle's Pioneer Square district.
  • Richard Neutra's Jardinette Apartments building in Hollywood is considered one of the first Modernist buildings in America.
  • Bümpliz-Oberbottigen, a district of Berne, Switzerland, contains rural hamlets, Baroque estates and modernist highrise satellite towns.
  • architect Alfred Rosenheim doubted whether modern architecture could strictly be regarded as architecture.
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