Q 01/05

Which architect founded the Bauhaus school in Weimar in 1919?

A) Marcel Breuer

B) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

C) Le Corbusier

D) Walter Gropius

Answer · why

D) Walter Gropius

The school moved to Dessau and then Berlin, and its last director, Mies van der Rohe, closed it in 1933 under Nazi pressure.

Q 02/05

Which city's 'White City' has the world's highest concentration of Bauhaus-style buildings?

A) Tel Aviv

B) Chicago

C) Dessau

D) Brasília

Answer · why

A) Tel Aviv

Many Jewish Bauhaus architects emigrated there in the 1930s after the school was closed.

Q 03/05

The Swiss sans-serif released in 1957 by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann was originally called what?

A) Univers Grotesk

B) Akzidenz-Grotesk

C) Neue Haas Grotesk

D) Schweizer Grotesk

Answer · why

C) Neue Haas Grotesk

It was renamed in 1960 after the Latin word for Swiss, to trade on Switzerland's reputation for ultra-modern graphic design.

Q 04/05

Dieter Rams, longtime head of design at Braun, is known for which three-word motto?

A) Less, but better

B) Form follows function

C) Less is more

D) Good design is honest

Answer · why

A) Less, but better

He also said that 'indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.'

Q 05/05

Rams's 1956 Braun SK 4 radiogram earned what macabre nickname for its clear acrylic lid?

A) The glass hearse

B) Snow White's coffin

C) Sleeping Beauty's bed

D) The crystal casket

Answer · why

B) Snow White's coffin

It broke with the tradition of hiding electronics inside furniture-style cabinets. Apple's iOS calculator later paid tribute to his ET66 calculator.