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Architects
Scholastic Bowl Most Prominent
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fallingwater* | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Guggenheim Museum* (NY) | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Kaufmann House | Frank Lloyd Wright (also known as Fallingwater) |
| Started Usonian (a type of organic architecture) homes architecture movement | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Johnson Wax Headquarters | Frank Lloyd Wright (deemed the "Great Workroom") |
| Taliesin | Frank Lloyd Wright (personal home named after Welsh Bard) |
| Nicknamed "rising mildew" | Frank Lloyd Wright (nickname for Fallingwater due to poor foundation). |
| Lived in Oak Park, Illinois for a notable time, where he designed many buildings | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| This man's mistress, Mamah Borthwick, was killed by Julian Carlton, a black servant, in his first residence | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| West Taliesin | Frank Lloyd Wright (built in Scottsdale after the murder of his mistress by Julian Carlton) |
| Larkin Soap Company's Buffalo office | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| The Imperial Hotel | Frank Lloyd Wright (survived the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake in Tokyo) |
| Utilized inverted Ziggurats | Frank Lloyd Wright (in Guggenheim Museum NY) |
| Spearheaded the "Prarie School" movement | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Ennis House | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Utilized a Mayan Revival Style | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Hollyhock House | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Robie House | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Jacob's House | Frank Lloyd Wright (First Usonian House) |
| Was challenged by Herbert Jacobs to create a house under $5000 | Frank Lloyd Wright (and so made the first Usonian House) |
| Broadacre City | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Gammage Auditorium | Frank Lloyd Wright (last non-residential work) |
| Proposed a mile high skyscraper "The Illinois" | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Rosenbaum House | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Price's Tower | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Guggenheim Museum Bilbao* | Frank Gehry (built on Nevrion River) |
| Walt Disney Concert Hall | Frank Gehry (Where the L.A. Philharmonic Play) |
| The Dancing House | Frank Gehry |
| Had a work originally called Fred and Ginger | Frank Gehry (Dancing House) |
| Worked with Vlado Milunic | Frank Gehry (on Dancing House) |
| Flower Atrium | Frank Gehry (from Guggenheim Museum Bilbao) |
| Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture | Frank Gehry (Built for Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen) |
| Chiat Day / Binoculars Building | Frank Gehry (worked with Claes Oldenberg) |
| Wrapped metal around his Santa Monica House | Frank Gehry |
| Vitra Design Museum | Frank Gehry |
| (Jay) Pritzker Pavilion | Frank Gehry (In Millenium Park) |
| Art Gallery of Ontario | Frank Gehry |
| Stata Center | Frank Gehry (MIT) |
| Sued after a water leakage at his building in MIT | Frank Gehry (at MIT) |
| Beekman Tower | Frank Gehry (on Spruce Street in NYC) |
| Based a skyscraper off of Chicago's Aqua | Frank Gehry |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial | Frank Gehry (in D.C.) |
| Weisman Art Museum | Frank Gehry |
| "Sky Church" | Frank Gehry (in Seattle's Museum of Modern Art) |
| Giant Standing Fish Sculpture | Frank Gehry (for 1992 Barcelona Olympics) |
| St. Louis's Gateway Arch | Eero Saarinen |
| TWA Flight Center | Eero Saarinen |
| Kresge Auditorium at MIT | Eero Saarinen |
| Tulip Chair | Eero Saarinen (new piece of furniture) |
| Designed a Piece of Furniture used on Star Trek | Eero Saarinen |
| Collaborated with Florence Knoll | Eero Saarinen (with his Tulip Chairs) |
| CBS Headquarters | Eero Saarinen (his only skyscraper) |
| Skyscraper nicknamed "Black Rock" | Eero Saarinen |
| Miller House and Garden | Eero Saarinen |
| Ingalls Ice Rink | Eero Saarinen |
| MIT Chapel | Eero Saarinen (cylindrical brick building & windowless) |
| Had his building for Yale nicknamed "The Whale" | Eero Saarinen |
| Washington Dulles Airport Main Terminal | Eero Saarinen |
| Designed a building with an eighth-sphere | Eero Saarinen |
| North Christian Church | Eero Saarinen (has a 59 meter spire) |
| Bell Labs Headquarters | Eero Saarinen |
| John Deere | Eero Saarinen |
| Ezra Stiles College | Eero Saarinen |
| Kleinhans Music Hall | Eero Saarinen |
| Louvre Glass Pyramid | I. M. Pei |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | I. M. Pei |
| Bank of China Tower | I. M. Pei |
| Was inspired by the Ahmad Ibn Tulun Mosque to come out of retirement | I. M. Pei |
| Museum of Islamic Art | I. M. Pei (In Doha, Qatar) (came out of retirement) |
| John F. Kennedy Presidential Library | I. M. Pei |
| Commissioned by Francois Mitterand | I. M. Pei (for Louvre Pyramid) |
| MIT Green Building | I. M. Pei (once hacked to play Tetris) |
| Created a namesake "plan" to redesign Oklahoma City | I. M. Pei |
| Macao Science Center | I. M. Pei |
| Christian Science Center | I. M. Pei |
| Mesa Laboratory (of the National Center for Atmospheric Research) | I. M. Pei |
| Inspired by Anasazi cliff dwellings | I. M. Pei (pueblo) |
| East Building of the National Gallery of Art | I. M. Pei |
| Symbolized Bamboo Shoots in one of his works | I. M. Pei (the Bank of China Tower) |
| John Hancock Tower | I. M. Pei |
| Miho Museum | I. M. Pei |
| Fragrant Hills Hotel | I. M. Pei |
| His Boston tower suffered from falling glass windows, giving it the name "plywood palace" | I. M. Pei (John Hancock Tower) |
| Collaborated with Henry Cobb | I. M. Pei |
| Dallas City Hall | I. M. Pei |
| Javits Convention Center | I. M. Pei |
| Four Seasons Hotel (NYC) | I. M. Pei |
| Wrote "Towards a New Architecture" | Le Corbusier |
| Wrote his "five points" of architecture | Le Corbusier |
| Supported pilotis instead of pillars | Le Corbusier (One of his Five Points) |
| Villa Savoye | Le Corbusier (in Poissy) |
| Modulor System | Le Corbusier (used Golden Ratio) |
| used the Golden Ratio and "Ideal Male Proportions" in a system | Le Corbusier (Modulor System) |
| Early design includes the Dom-Ino | Le Corbusier |
| Cofounded Purism with Amedee Ozenfant | Le Corbusier (tried to eliminate detail) |
| Called houses a "Machine for Living" | Le Corbusier |
| Helped to design the U.N. building with Oscar Niemeyer | Le Corbusier |
| L'Esprit Noveau Pavillion | Le Corbusier (white box named after his magazine for a Paris Exhibition) |
| Supported Long Horizontal Windows | Le Corbusier (one of his Five Points) |
| Built a famous Cathedral in Ronchamp | Le Corbusier (Notre Dame du Haut) |
| Notre Dame du Haut | Le Corbusier |
| Created a Contemporary City Project | Le Corbusier (through his Plan Voisin) |
| Formed Plan Voisin | Le Corbusier (wanted to redesign Paris) |
| Unite D'habitation | Le Corbusier (residential complex, used "Raw Concrete") |
| Wrote about "Regulating Lines" | Le Corbusier |
| Palace of Assembly | Le Corbusier |
| Open Hand Sculptures | Le Corbusier (in Chandigarh, India) |
| "Radiant City" Planning | Le Corbusier |
| Designed the city of Chandrigarh, India | Le Corbusier (using his "Radiant City") |
| Curutchet House in La Plata, Argentina | Le Corbusier |
| Pioneered the International Style | Le Corbusier |
| National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo | Le Corbusier |
| Designed "Cartesian Skyscrapers" | Le Corbusier |
| Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts | Le Corbusier |
| "Grand Confort" Furniture | Le Corbusier |
| Punjab-Haryana High Court Building | Le Corbusier |
| Citrohan House | Le Corbusier |
| Wrote "Eyes that Do Not See" | Le Corbusier (in his Towards a New Architecture) |
| Villa La Roche | Le Corbusier |
| Seagram Building (with Philip Johnson) | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Proclaimed "Less is More" | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Stated "God is in the Details" | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Last Director of the Bauhaus | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Collaborated with Philip Johnson | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (on the Seagram Building) |
| Farnsworth House | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartment Complexes | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Namesake Barcelona Pavilion | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Barcelona Chair | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Chicago Federal Center | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Alexander Calder's Flamingo Sculpture contrasts with a dark building of this architect | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Building is Chicago Federal Center) |
| Lafayette Park, Detroit, Apartment Complexes | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Replaced the Mecca Flats with one of his buildings | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (in the Illinois Institute of Technology) |
| Crown Hall | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (replaced the Mecca Flats at the Illinois Institute of Technology) |
| Brno Chairs | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Villa Tugendhat | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (for Fritz and Grete Tugendhat) |
| Included non-structural I (capital i) beams | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Designed Chairs for the German Pavilion in the 1929 International Exposition | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Berlin New National Gallery | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Let his apprentice design the Four Seasons Restaurant in Famous Work | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (in Seagram Building) |
| Added onto the Caroline Weiss Law Building | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Added Cullinan Hall to another building | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Added to Caroline Weiss Law Building) |
| Collaborated with Lilly Reich on Furniture | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Unfinished Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (finished after his death) |
| Worked with Bruno Paul and Peter Behren in his Youth | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Weissenhof Complex | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| St. Paul's Cathedral | Sir Christopher Wren |
| Rebuilt 54 Churches after London's Great Fire | Sir Christopher Wren |
| Tombstone Read "If you seek his memorial, look around you" | Sir Christopher Wren |
| Royal Observatory in Greenwich | Sir Christopher Wren |
| Founding Member of the Royal Society and Professor at Oxford | Sir Christopher Wren |
| Defied Charles II's order to construct fortifications on Tangier | Sir Christopher Wren (used his health as an excuse) |
| Designed a column with an urn on top as a memorial | Sir Christopher Wren (for the Great Fire of London) |
| Sheldonian Theater | Sir Christopher Wren |
| Hampton Court Palace | Sir Christopher Wren (oldest building on William and Mary Campus & oldest Collegiate Building in U.S.) |
| Stated "Ladies think nothing well without an edging" | Sir Christopher Wren |
| Designed the first Collegiate Building in the U.S. | Sir Christopher Wren (for William and Mary, Hampton Court Palace) |
| Created a Greek Cross Plan for his most famous work | Sir Christopher Wren (for St. Paul's Cathedral) |
| Inspired by the Theater of Marcellus | Sir Christopher Wren (for his Sheldonian Theater) |
| Redesigned Kensington Palace for William III | Sir Christopher Wren |
| Cambridge's Trinity College Library | Sir Christopher Wren |
| Royal Naval College | Sir Christopher Wren |
| Wainwright Building | Louis Sullivan |
| Mentored Frank Lloyd Wright | Louis Sullivan |
| Stated "Form Follows Function" | Louis Sullivan |
| Collaborated with Danmark Adler | Louis Sullivan (for Wainwright Building) |
| Guaranty Building in Buffalo | Louis Sullivan |
| Transportation Building | Louis Sullivan (made for Columbian Exposition) |
| created a building with a Golden Door | Louis Sullivan (Transportation Building) |
| National Farmers Bank | Louis Sullivan |
| Designed banks nicknamed his "Jewel Boxes" | Louis Sullivan |
| Chicago Stock Exchange | Louis Sullivan |
| Designed the Auditorium Building for Chicago's Roosevelt University | Louis Sullivan |
| Created the Largest Brick and Mortar Dome Ever | Filippo Brunelleschi (was the largest overall dome at the time of its completion) |
| Created the Dome for the Florence Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore | Filippo Brunelleschi |
| Hospital of the Innocent | Filippo Brunelleschi |
| Rediscovered Linear Perspective | Filippo Brunelleschi |
| Feuded with his rival, Lorenzo Ghiberti | Filippo Brunelleschi |
| Lost a bet to design the doors of the Florence Baptistery | Filippo Brunelleschi |
| Sagrada Familia | Antoni Gaudi |
| Most Famous Work has a completed Nativity Facade | Antoni Gaudi |
| Most Famous work may not be completed until 2040 | Antoni Gaudi |
| Park Guell | Antoni Gaudi (comissioned by Eusebi Guell) |
| Casa Mila | Antoni Gaudi |
| Famous work nicknamed "Stone Quarry" | Antoni Gaudi (Casa Mila) |
| Casa Batilo | Antoni Gaudi |
| Has a building depicting Saint George's Lance | Antoni Gaudi (Casa Batilo) |
| Has a building locally known as the "House of Bones" | Antoni Gaudi (Casa Batilo) |
| Created a Mosaic Salamander "El Drac" | Antoni Gaudi (serves as an entrance to Park Guell) |
| Catalan and Barcelona Native | Antoni Gaudi |
| Employed the Trencadis mosaic style | Antoni Gaudi |
| Famous work has a Glory Facade | Antoni Gaudi (Sagrada Familia) |
| Famous work has a Passion Facade | Antoni Gaudi (Sagrada Familia) |
| Famous work has 18 spindly towers representing Jesus, the Apostles, etc. | Antoni Gaudi (Sagrada Familia) |
| (textile) Workers Cooperative in Mataro | Antoni Gaudi (very early work) |
| Vietnam Veterans Memorial | Maya Lin |
| Designed a national monument as a Yale Undergraduate | Maya Lin (Vietnam Veterans Memorial) |
| Most Famous work has 2 granite walls forming a V | Maya Lin (Vietnam Veterans Memorial) |
| Women's Table | Maya Lin |
| Designed a monument surrounded by Frederick Hart's Three Soldiers Monument | Maya Lin (Vietnam Veterans Memorial) |
| Confluence Project | Maya Lin (depicts the relations between Natives and Europeans, displayed on Columbia River) |
| Langston Hughes Library in Haley Farm, Clinton, Tennessee | Maya Lin |
| Outdoor piece called Wave Field | Maya Lin |
| Monticello | Thomas Jefferson |
| University of Virginia | Thomas Jefferson |
| Created slave quarters on Mulberry Row | Thomas Jefferson (Monticello) |
| Taught himself Architecture from Andrea Palladio's The Four Books of Architecture | Thomas Jefferson (deemed "his bible") |
| Created an "Academical Village" | Thomas Jefferson (@ UVA) |
| Created "The Lawn" and "The Rotunda" as part of a larger work | Thomas Jefferson (Academical Village @ UVA) |
| Poplar Forest | Thomas Jefferson |
| Appointed and influenced Benjamin Latrobe | Thomas Jefferson |
| Villa Rotonda | Andrea Palladio |
| Wrote "The Four Books of Architecture" | Andrea Palladio |
| Church of San Giorgio Maggiore | Andrea Palladio |
| Teatro Olympico (Olympic Theater) | Andrea Palladio (finished posthumously) |
| Inspired Inigo Jones's Banqueting House at Whitehall | Andrea Palladio |
| Given his nickname by Count Trissino | Andrea Palladio |
| Villa Trissino | Andrea Palladio |
| Tried to mimic Vitruvius | Andrea Palladio |
| Villa Barbaro | Andrea Palladio |
| Il Redentore Church | Andrea Palladio |
| Worked with his Mentor, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Philip Johnson |
| Co-designed the Seagram Building with van der Rohe | Philip Johnson |
| Glass House in New Canaan | Philip Johnson (personal residence) |
| AT&T Headquarters | Philip Johnson (now the Sony Tower) |
| Sony Tower | Philip Johnson (formerly the AT&T Headquarters) |
| Designed the Four Seasons Restaurant in most famous collaboration | Philip Johnson (Seagram Building) |
| Had a building mocked for its "Chippendale Top" | Philip Johnson (AT&T Headquarters) |
| Designed the Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Modern Art | Philip Johnson |
| Crystal Cathedral | Philip Johnson |
| Utilized "Zogs" | Philip Johnson |
| Gate of Europe | Philip Johnson |
| Banqueting House at Whitehall | Inigo Jones |
| Queen's House in Greenwich | Inigo Jones |
| Guangzhou Opera House | Zaha Hadid |
| London Aquatic Center | Zaha Hadid (for 2012 Olympics) |
| Maxxi Art museum in Rome | Zaha Hadid |
| First Women to receive the Pritzker Prize | Zaha Hadid |
| Pompidou Center | Renzo Piano |
| The Shard | Renzo Piano |
| Kansai International Airport Terminal | Renzo Piano (built on artificial Island off of Osaka Bay) |
| Worked with Le Corbusier on the U.N. Headquarters | Oscar Niemeyer |
| Palace of Dawn | Oscar Niemeyer |
| Cathedral of Brasilia | Oscar Niemeyer |
| Collaborated with Lucio Costa | Oscar Niemeyer |
| Seattle Central Library | Rem Koolhaas |
| Wrote S,M,L,XL | Rem Koolhas |
| Founded the Bauhaus School | Walter Gropius |
| Pan Am Building | Walter Gropius |
| Designed the Fagus Factory with Adolf Meyer | Walter Gropius |
| Eiffel Tower | Gustave Eiffel |
| Namesake tower is in the Champ de Mars | Gustave Eiffel |
| Built a famous work for the 1889 World's Fair | Gustave Eiffel (Eiffel Tower) |
| Nyugati Train Station (Budapest) | Gustave Eiffel |
| Designed the dome for Charles Garnier's Nice Observatory | Gustave Eiffel |
| Indicted in the Panama Canal Scandal & went to jail | Gustave Eiffel |
| Built the steel framework for the statue of liberty | Gustave Eiffel |
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