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

Walter Gropius's school was pushed out of Weimar by right-wing political pressure, so it reopened in Dessau in 1925.

Q 02/05

Which city's UNESCO-listed 'White City' is famed for its 1930s Bauhaus-style buildings?

A) Tel Aviv

B) Chicago

C) Dessau

D) Brasília

Answer · why

A) Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv: its architects, trained in Europe before emigrating, adapted modernist ideas to the city's hot climate.

Q 03/05

Which car did Alec Issigonis design for BMC after the 1956 Suez Crisis brought fuel rationing?

A) The Morris Minor

B) The Mini

C) The Reliant Robin

D) The Triumph Herald

Answer · why

B) The Mini

The Mini: to seat four passengers in a tiny, fuel-efficient car, Issigonis turned the engine sideways to drive the front wheels.

Q 04/05

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

A) Less, but better

B) Form follows function

C) Keep it simple

D) Think different

Answer · why

A) Less, but better

Less, but better: in the 1970s Rams asked himself whether his own design was good design, and his answer became his ten principles.

Q 05/05

Braun's 1956 SK 4 radiogram earned what 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

Snow White's coffin: Dieter Rams added the see-through lid, breaking with radios built to look like traditional furniture.