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    QUIZ

    Quizzical Pursuit
    —The Architecture Puzzler

    Created by Dave Guadagni

     

    Architecture Puzzler #73

    Philip Johnson is famous, among other things, for organizing what 1930s exhibition?


     

    Question from Last Week:
    Architecture Puzzler #72

    Most commercially produced adobe bricks are "stabilized" by adding asphalt emulsion (3 to 5 percent by weight) or Portland cement (5 to 10 percent). These coat the clay particles and reduce their tendency to absorb water and expand. Occasionally (and traditionally) straw is added — why?  

    Answer to Puzzler #72


     

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    Philip Johnson designed the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, 1980.
    Photo: Faith & Form Magazine

     
     
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