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Quizzical Pursuit
—The Architecture Puzzler
Created by Dave Guadagni
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Architecture Puzzler #43
Match the following buildings with the architects listed below:
Paimo Sanitarium
Trinity Church, Boston
Boston Public Library
Unite' D'Habitation
Farnsworth House
Richards Medical Labs
U. S. Air Force Academy
Larkin Building
Yale Architecture Building
Saint Louis Arch
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
East Wing, National Gallery of Art
Palace Guell
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, H.H. Richardson, Alvar Aalto, Antonio Gaudi, McKim Mead & White, Louis Kahn, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Bernard Maybeck, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, I. M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, Eero Saarinen
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Question from Last Week:
Architecture Puzzler #43
The slopes of Egyptian pyramids mimic the slopes of mountains in that the main force acting on both is the "dead load" of their own weight. What is the angle of the typical sloping face of the pyramids? Care to guess how much the pyramid at Gizeh weighs?
Answer to Puzzler #42
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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects
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Unite d'Habitation, Marseilles, France, 1946 to 1952.
Great Buildings Photo © Donald Corner and Jenny Young
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