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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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2013-11-29
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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 could truly be more. During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the post war confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.
Economic condition was only a 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 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 organized, has more impacts than a lot. Elegance, he believed, did not derive from abundance. Like other modern architects, he employed metal, glass and laminated wood - 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 spreading two-storey 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 home grown influence on the "less is more" trend. Aesthetic effect came from the landscape, new materials and forthright detailing. In this 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 we learn about the design of the "Case Study Houses"?
选项
A、Mechanical devices were widely used.
B、Natural sciences were taken into consideration.
C、Details were sacrificed for the overall effects.
D、Eco-friendly materials were employed.
答案
B
解析
本题信息点是the design of the Case Study Houses。该信息点分布在最后一段的各个句子中,第一句是The“Case Study Houses”commissioned from talented modem architects by California Arts&Architecture magazine between 1 945 and 1 962 were yet another home grown influence on the“less is more”trend,大意为:Case Study Houses对“少就是多”趋势的影响产生于国内;第二句是Aestheric effect came from the landscape,new materials and forthright detailing,大意为:审美效果来自于地形地貌、新材料和明了的细节设计。第三句是Inthis 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,大意为:在Case Study Houses的设计中,Ralph Rapson可能错误预计了自动化革命对人们日常生活的影响,但是他认为自给自足既是人们想要的也是不可避免的,这一理念得到了广泛的支持。由此可见,选项B符合第二旬的内容,为本题答案。
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