首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
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
admin
2012-03-27
192
问题
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 futrue, 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 architectrue schools. These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architectrue, but none more so that Mies.
Mies’s signature phrase means that less decoration, properly organized, has more impact that 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 futrue. 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 & Architectrue 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.
Which of the following can be inferred from Paragraph 3 about Bauhaus?
选项
A、It was founded by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
B、Its designing concept was affected by World War II.
C、Most American architects used to be associated with it.
D、It had a great influence upon American architectrue.
答案
D
解析
推理题。题干的Bauhaus定位在第三段第二句,因此答案指向第二句。第二句是个长难句,。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Pje4777K
0
考研英语二
相关试题推荐
Themainideaofthefirstparagraphisthat______.WhichofthefollowingstatementsisTRUE?
Thesentence"Aftereachrainshower,anotherInternetmillionairesprangup"(Paragraph1)means______.Whatdoesthepassage
ThemajordifferencebetweennarrativesalesandsuggestivesalesisthatAccordingtoAlan,creativityinsalespeople______.
Accordingtothepassage,thefactthatyoungpeopleseemtobelosinginterestinscience______.Whichofthefollowingstate
Wearelivinginoneofthoseperiodsinhumanhistorywhicharemarkedbyrevolutionarychangesinallofman’sideasandvalue
RuthSimmonsjoinedGoldmanSachs’sboardasanoutsidedirectorinJanuary2000:ayearlatershebecamepresidentofBrownUni
TheInternetaffordsanonymitytoitsusers,ablessingtoprivacyandfreedomofspeech.Butthatveryanonymityisalsobehind
TheInternetaffordsanonymitytoitsusers,ablessingtoprivacyandfreedomofspeech.Butthatveryanonymityisalsobehind
Whenitcomestotheeconomy,pessimismisinandgoodoldAmericanoptimismisout.Fromtheheadlinesinthenewspaperstothe
随机试题
下列不属于永续盘存制条件下各项存货结存数的表现形式的是()
《红楼梦》中,在宝玉挨打后,众人纷纷前来探望。请根据人物性格,判断下列哪句是薛宝钗的问候
TLC法中常用的吸附剂是()
小儿生长发育的规律不包括
为了客观分析企业盈利能力,收集相关分析数据时应当排除的项目有()。
《出口玩具质量许可证》有效期( )年。出口玩具发货人于装运前( )天报检,必须逐批实施检验。
长时记忆的主要编码形式是()。
Thereisconcernaroundtheapparentinabilityofscienceeducationtocountercurrentnegativeperceptionsofscienceinbothd
TheRoleofPriceWhatisprice?Priceisoftensaidtobetheamountofmoneypeoplemusthavetogetsomething(19).Tha
A、Theyonlyreceivemoneyfrombusinesses.B、Theyofferpeoplenewsandentertainment.C、Theyarerunbythegovernment.D、They
最新回复
(
0
)