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Quizzical Pursuit
—The Architecture Puzzler

Created by Dave Guadagni

 

Architecture Puzzler #242

True or False: a. Mortar droppings should be wiped off of walls or floors before hardening.
b. The “Little House Living Room” by Frank Lloyd Wright is only 12- by 16-feet (3.6- by 4.9 meters) and was put on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.


 

Question from Last Week:
Architecture Puzzler #241

Alfred Moser Butts, an out-of-work architect during the Great Depression, gained fame and some wealth by doing which of the following:

- Writing several influential books, published in the European press, criticizing the dominance of historicist architecture.

- Inventing the popular board game “Scrabble.”

- Through mutual friends, meeting the Rockefellers and winning the commission to design Rockefeller Center.  

Answer to Puzzler #241


 

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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects

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