The passage suggests that Wagner would be LEAST likely to agree with which one of the following statements about clas...

jingjingxiao11111@gmail.com on February 9, 2022

Hi I am not an instructor and I also got this question wrong. I believe the line reference supporting correct answer B comes from the last paragraph with the example of circular church ground plan for worship. See below the line reference:

While he justified, for example, the choice of a circular ground plan for churches in (55) terms of optimal sight-lines and the technology of the gasometer, the true inspiration was derived from the centralized churches of the Italian Renaissance.

The above line references support the opposite of B. That is, modern architect can design buildings appropriate to a modern, urban society and still retain emotional attachments to the forms of the Italian Renaissance and Austrian Baroque. For example, the choice of a circular ground plan for church was made due to technology reasons. That is, the reason was “in terms of optimal sight lines and the technology of the gasometer”. However, the true inspiration for a circular ground plan for church was derived from the centralized churches of the Italian Renaissance.

As a result, the example of circular design of the church worship shows that modern architect has the ability to design buildings appropriate to a modern urban society and still retain emotionally attached to the form of Italian Renaissance. Thus, B is the correct answer because the opposite of B is what Wagner believes, as shown through his current-day circular ground plan church example.

D) is something that Wagner does support so D) is incorrect. Wagner does think that modern architect should not base designs on the technological conditions that underlay the designs of the models of the Italian Renaissance and Austrian Baroque.

For example, he says “All modern creations," Wagner wrote, "must correspond to the new materials and demands of the present...must illustrate our own better, democratic, self-confident, ideal nature.”

The above reference supports that Wagner believes in D, which makes D) incorrect.

Thank you. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Ravi on February 9, 2022

If you look at lines 58-63, there we see that Wagner believed that "there was no way back to the social and technological conditions" of the Italian Renaissance an Austrian Baroque. Also, in lines 24-26, we see Wagner thought that modern architecture must include the "colossal technical and scientific achievements" of the modern age. Thus, Wagner would certainly agree that modern architects should not base their designs on the technology of the Italian Renaissance and Austrian Baroque, so D is out.

With B, if you look at paragraph four, we see there that Wagner thought that he made buildings that reflected the practical and technological ideals of Modernism while also retaining an emotional attachment to the great works of the eres of the Italian Renaissance and Austrian Baroque (this can be found in lines 58-63). From this, we know that Wagner thought that it was possible for an architect to create modern buildings while simultaneously retaining and emotional attachment to classical architecture. Thus, Wagner would not be likely to agree with B.

jingjingxiao11111@gmail.com on February 9, 2022

Thank you! Your answer was very helpful!

Ravi on February 12, 2022

Happy it helped!