INT 111- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 32 pages long!)
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The international style: name from a 1932 exhibit at the museum of modern art in new. Design characteristics include regularity, volume over mass, geometry, steel framework and glass curtain walls smooth white walls, minimal color, and no applied ornament. To be modern is not a fashion; it is a state. -le corbusier: born in switzerland, built his first house at age 18, went to paris in 908. Inspired by a teacher to take up architecture. Charlotte perriand: up and coming architect her. Interest: the search for design principles, organizational and structural order and the experience of the building in relationship with its context. In the tradition of the greeks, which grows out of the golden section and measurements of the human body and looked at classical architecture. He went to greece: brought the human body into their architecture. An unadorned white box in stilts, and an open plan, flat roof.
