Examination Review

These are the major terms and concepts I want you to master for the upcoming examinations. This list is subject to change as we progress throughout the course. This review is designed to highlight ideas and concepts that will be found on the test. Even so, the review does not include every word that will appear on the exam; it merely serves to guide your study of the texts, notes, web resources, and other materials employed throughout this course.

Midterm (subject to additions until the day before the exam)

• Five components of the Modern Project
• The sublime vs. the picturesque
• aesthetics (definition and example of modern architecture discussed in class)
• Haussmannization and the progress narrative
• Paris Street, Rainy Day (description, interpretation, relation to modernity)
• 1851 World's Fair overview (location, Crystal Palace, nationalism, Punch Magazine illustrations)
• 1893 World's Fair overview (location, City Beautiful Movement - with contemporary example, cultural display and "the other")
• Moral panic and civilization
• Five components of international expos as public cultural genre
• Nathan's Tripartite Victorian identity (including examples and their meanings)
• Turner's closing of the frontier
• Henry Adams and Annie Lynch's response to the 1893 Expo
• Foucault's Heterotopia (definition and examples)
• Three strategies of heterotopia at the 1893 Expo
• "Lady Managers" and the Woman's Building
• Arguments in The Reason Why
• 2010 Shanghai World's Fair theme
• Possible location for 2020 Expo

Final (subject to additions until the day before the exam)

• Enclaves as totalizing environments (including religious implications - "Cathedral of Modern Trade" and modern example: atrium hotels)
• Modern architecture (Art Deco, Streamlined Moderne, International Style)
• 1930s as Age of Authority
• 1939-40 NYWF (location as cited in The Great Gatsby, motto, Trylon and Perisphere - manner they serve as symbol of modernity - fair's architectural legacy, Planners vs. the People)
• General Motors' Futurama (including value appeals and E.B. White's response)
• The Middletons (including sponsoring company, key themes, and architectural legacy)
• African-Americans at the 1940 season of the NYWF (role of the American Common)
• Mottos, nicknames, important structures, and popular evaluations of 1962, 1964-65, 1974, and 1982 fairs (note: these fairs do not necessarily contain each of these study elements)
• 1962: two additional elements: Motivation for the fair, "Space Gothic" (relate to "Cathedral of Modern Trade")
• 1964-65: one additional element: Disney pavilions
• Expo '67 and Safdie's Habitat
• 2005 Aichi sustainability theme (and comparison of U.S. and Japan visions)
• World's fairs and the Modern Project
• World's fairs as Cultural Dinosaurs
• China (population, economic growth, wealth gap)
• Expo 2010 overview (attendance, theme, two values)
• Expo 2010 mascot
• Expo 2010 pavilions (SAIC-GM, Chile, United Kingdom, Spain)

Sample Questions

True/False If the statement is mostly true, place a 'T' in the space provided. If the statement is mostly false, place a 'F' in the space provided.

1. __ The sublime refers to that intense feeling of power that humans feel over God or nature.

2. __ The City Beautiful Movement arose in the 1851 London Exposition.

Multiple Choice Select the response that is most correct.

3. Haussmannization refers to urban transformation in what city?

a. Paris
b. London
c. New York
d. Chicago

4. One aesthetic principle of the Modern Project is:

a. fluidity
b. chaos
c. geometry
d. naturalism

5. Nathan's Tripartite Victorian Identity illustrates confidence by the:

a. aboriginal canoe
b. Cunard liner
c. Darling boat
d. Queen Elizabeth II