Compare and contrast the architectural style of the Opéra and the Wainwright Building
What will be an ideal response?
Essay responses should include these points:
The Wainwright Building featured steel and elevators.
The Wainwright Building used new technologies, and architects of the "Chicago School" adapted the formal vocabulary and basic compositional rules of the Beaux-Arts tradition; it is divided into a base, body, and crowning cornice, making it more vertical than horizontal.
The Opéra is constructed from cast iron with a lavish overlay of nonstructural "neo-Baroque" decoration.
Gilded decoration, exuberant sculpture, and a lavish mix of expensive, polychrome materials cover the Opéra's foyer with a great sweeping staircase.
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a. the theme is called the subject b. polyphonic statements of the theme alternate with expositions (passages of homophonic development c. normally written for between two and five independent polyphonic lines d. sections in which the melody is not heard in its entirety are called episodes e. fugues may be written for voices as well as instruments
What is automatism, the concept beloved by Surrealists, based on?
A. Critical thinking B. Extensive knowledge C. Intuition D. Automatons
If Christians follow the example of Christ set forth in Philippians, what type of leaders should they strive to be?
What will be an ideal response?
Insisting that the house "is a machine for living," which of the following championed form over function and employed devices such as roof gardens, partitions, and large façades of glass?
A. Le Corbusier B. Wright C. Sullivan D. Gropius