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Example Question #365 : 3 D Art
In designing the vacation home known as Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright was heavily influenced by ___________________.
Japanese architecture
Egyptian architecture
Baroque architecture
Gothic architecture
Japanese architecture
While Fallingwater is a thoroughly modern building, constructed in straight lines made out of concrete, glass, and steel, Frank Lloyd Wright was heavily inspired by Japanese architecture. Fallingwater was designed as a natural retreat for its owners, which meant Wright had to carefully blend the house into nature. Considering its use of natural light and a sense of blending the indoor and outdoor space, the house features many approaches which are borrowed from Japanese architectural ideas.
Example Question #366 : 3 D Art
Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture are best captured in the building _____________________.
Villa Savoye
Farnsworth House
Monticello
Fallingwater
Villa Savoye
Le Corbusier was both a practicing architect and an architectural theorist. These two identities were best joined in his design and construction of Villa Savoye outside of Paris. The building intentionally and forcefully followed Le Corbusier's manifesto Five Points of Architecture. The five points Villa Savoye followed were having pilotis that lifted the building off the ground, a functional roof that could be used as a garden, a free floor plan without load bearing walls allowing interior openness, large windows that provided vast amounts of natural light, and freely designed facades that acted merely as a skin on the outside of the building.
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