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Quizzical Pursuit
—The Architecture Puzzler
Created by Dave Guadagni
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Architecture Puzzler #111
The concrete in use today has evolved beyond a simple mix of gravel, cement, and water. Now concrete is often tailored to fit specific design needs through the inclusion of special admixtures. Can you name five classes of admixtures?
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Question from Last Week:
Architecture Puzzler #110
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 to Puzzler #110
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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects
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"Cement Workers" by William L'Engle.
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