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Quizzical Pursuit
The Architecture Puzzler
Created by Dave Guadagni
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Solution to Last Week's Puzzler
Architecture Puzzler #84
Question
This metal is biostatic. Its beauty, malleability, and conductivity make it useful in construction. Every year, U.S. industry uses about 3 million metric tons of it. What metal are we referring to?
Answer
Copper.
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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects
Quizzical Pursuit is Copyright 2002, Dave Guadagni.
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A metal roof on the Unitarian Meeting House, by Frank Lloyd Wright, at Madison, Wisconsin, 1947 to 1951.
Great Buildings Photo © Artifice, Inc.
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