39 Art History Early American Modern Architecture Exam Question & Answers 2025.docx

39 Art History Early American Modern
Architecture Exam Question & Answers
2025
Which of the following is necessary to build a
skyscraper?-CORRECT ANSWERS ✅b. metal beams


Who designed the building above?


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✅a. Frank Lloyd Wright


What was the idea behind the design of the building
above?-CORRECT ANSWERS ✅c. to reflect America's
increasing worship of business during the early twentieth
century


What is the name of the piece above?-CORRECT
ANSWERS ✅c. Fallingwater


What characteristics identify early modern architecture?-
CORRECT ANSWERS ✅a. emphasized organic
shapes and materials


Who designed the building above?

, 39 Art History Early American Modern
Architecture Exam Question & Answers
2025

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✅a. Mary Colter


Prairie houses are________________________.-CORRECT
ANSWERS ✅a. irregular in plan, two stories high, with
one-story wings


How did Frank Lloyd Wright believe a home should
interact with the landscape?-CORRECT ANSWERS
✅a. the house should be in the landscape


Who designed the building above?


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✅b. Cass Gilbert


How did the term "prairie style" come to be?-CORRECT
ANSWERS ✅d. all of the above
(The roofs and terraces that jut outward into the
environment echo the horizontal space of the prairie.