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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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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 postwar 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 impact 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-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.
Mies held that elegance of architectural design
选项
A、was related to large space.
B、was identified with emptiness.
C、was not reliant on abundant decoration.
D、was not associated with efficiency.
答案
C
解析
细节题。本题的意思是Mies所认为的建筑设计的高雅之处在于______。根据第四段的 信号词可以很容易得知C项“不依赖于繁荣”原文意思一致,故为正确答案。A项“与大面积的 空间相关”;B项“与空旷等同”这两项与文章的意思相反;D项“与简洁无关”曲解原文,因此也 不是正确答案。
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