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We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning h
We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning h
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2012-05-28
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We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G.I. Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.
But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less truly could be more. During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.
Economic condition was only one stimulus for the trend toward efficient living. The phrase "less is more" was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools. These designers, including Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture, but none more so than Mies.
Mies’s signature phrase means that less decoration, properly deployed, has more impact than a lot. Elegance, he believed, did not derive from abundance. Like other modern architects, he employed metal, glass and laminated wood (胶合板) — materials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future. Mies’s sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient, rather than big and often empty.
The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive, for example, were smaller — two-bedroom units under 1,000 square feet — than those in their older neighbors along the city’s Gold Coast. But they were popular because of their airy glass walls, the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings’ details and proportions, the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.
The trend toward "less" was not entirely foreign. In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses — usually around 1,200 square feet — than the sprawling two-story ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.
The "Case Study Houses" commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts & Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the "less is more" trend. Aesthetic effect came from the landscape, new materials and forthright detailing. In his Case Study House, Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life — few American families acquired helicopters, though most eventually got clothes dryers — but his belief that self-sufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.
What can be inferred about Bauhaus from the third paragraph?
选项
A、It was founded by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
B、It had a great influence upon American architecture.
C、Its designing concept was affected by World War II.
D、Most American architects used to be associated with it.
答案
B
解析
题干已经将本题出处定位到第3段。该段末句提到,这些设计师……对美国的建筑教程产生了巨大影响。其中的“这些设计师”(These designers)就是指Bauhaus学派的设计师。[B]中的had a great influence upon与该句中的came to exert enormous influence on同义,故为答案。[A]“它是由Mies创建的”是对该段的过度推断。该段末句只是提到美国建筑受Mies的影响最大,但没说明Bauhaus就是由Mies创建的,故排除。[C]“它的设计理念受到二战的影响”的信息在文中未表示出来,故排除。该段末句只是说到Bauhaus学派的设计师对美国的建筑教程产生了巨大影响,并没说明“大部分的美国建筑都通常与之相关”,[D]是对文章信息的过度推测,故排除。
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