New Materials, New Spaces: Free AP Art History Long Essay

Long Essay: Visual/Contextual AnalysisAbout 25 minutes

In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, architects used new materials and building technologies, such as steel frames and reinforced concrete, to create forms and spaces that earlier building methods could not. Choose a building and explain how its architect used new materials or technologies to shape its form and meaning.

Select one of these, or any other relevant work:

Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building
Villa Savoye
Fallingwater

Choose one of the works listed or any other relevant work from the required works. In your essay: give two accurate identifiers of the work you chose, beyond any given here; make a defensible claim or thesis that sets up a line of reasoning; support the claim with at least two specific pieces of visual or contextual evidence; explain how that evidence supports the claim; and deepen the argument by corroborating, qualifying or modifying the claim, for example by explaining further connections, nuance or other interpretations.