Architecture

Twentieth-Century Styles and Their Defining Dogmas

A focused assessment of canonical architectural movements, testing identification through material, form, and detail choices. For intermediate learners.

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Which style, popular for early 20th-century suburban homes in the United States and United Kingdom, is most defined by steeply pitched cross-gabled roofs, decorative half-timbering, and tall, narrow windows with small panes?
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What early 20th-century American architectural movement is characterized by strong horizontal lines, low-pitched hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, and an emphasis on integrating the building with its landscape?
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Which of the following is a defining principle of the International Style, as codified in the 1932 MoMA exhibition?
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The mid-20th century Brutalist style is most immediately identified by which specific material treatment?
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Which late 20th-century architectural style is characterized by fragmented forms, a lack of obvious harmony or continuity, and a design process that often appears to distort or dislocate elements of the building's structure?
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What is the core theoretical aim of Critical Regionalism in architecture?
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Twentieth-Century Styles and Their Defining Dogmas

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Which style, popular for early 20th-century suburban homes in the United States and United Kingdom, is most defined by steeply pitched cross-gabled roofs, decorative half-timbering, and tall, narrow windows with small panes?

What early 20th-century American architectural movement is characterized by strong horizontal lines, low-pitched hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, and an emphasis on integrating the building with its landscape?

Which of the following is a defining principle of the International Style, as codified in the 1932 MoMA exhibition?

The mid-20th century Brutalist style is most immediately identified by which specific material treatment?

Which late 20th-century architectural style is characterized by fragmented forms, a lack of obvious harmony or continuity, and a design process that often appears to distort or dislocate elements of the building's structure?

What is the core theoretical aim of Critical Regionalism in architecture?

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