Building Brain Busters

Test your Architecture I.Q.

September 2008 NBM Online

Q: You are about to use a time machine to go back to ancient Rome. Before you leave, your friend the Classical scholar says, “Be sure to see the velarium.” Where would you go and in what direction would you look once you got to Rome?
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July / August 2008 NBM Online

Q: What famous early American architect's son, who occassionally practiced architecture himself, played a major role in the establishment of the African nation of Liberia?
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June 2008 NBM Online

Q: Eero Saarinen’s father, Eliel, famously won second place in the 1922 design competition for the Chicago Tribune Tower.  Ten years earlier, in 1912, he won second place in another famous international design competition.  What was it?
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May 2008 NBM Online 

Q: As of 2008, the Pritzker Architecture Prize has been award 30 times to architects from a total of 16 countries. Only five countries have produced more than one Pritzker Prize winner.  What are those five countries?

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