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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 #110
Question
The following buildings were each constructed in different decades from the 1900s to the 1980s. Can you list them in order of oldest to youngest?
Lever House (SOM)
Yale Center for British Art (Louis I. Kahn)
Carson Pirie Scott (Louis Sullivan)
Chicago Tribune Tower (Howells & Hood)
High Museum of Art (Richard Meier)
Palace of Fine Arts (Bernard Maybeck)
Falling Water (Frank Lloyd Wright)
National Gallery of Art, West Building (John Russell Pope)
Dulles International Airport (Eero Saarinen)
Answer
Carson Pirie Scott — 1904
Palace of Fine Arts — 1915
Chicago Tribune Tower — 1927
Fallingwater — 1936
National Gallery of Art, West Building — 1941
Lever House — 1952
Dulles International Airport — 1962
Yale Center for British Art — 1977
High Museum of Art — 1983
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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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Dulles International Airport by Eero Saarinen, at Chantilly, Virginia.
Great Buildings Photo © Donald Corner and Jenny Young
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