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Quizzical Pursuit
—The Architecture Puzzler
Created by Dave Guadagni
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Architecture Puzzler #459
Illegal logging practices result in the loss of nearly 36 million acres (14.6 million hectares) of natural forests across the world each year. In the Amazon Basin, 60 to 70 percent of the deforestation is for which one of the following purposes: hardwood extraction for export, cattle ranching, large-scale coffee plantations, or local subsistence farming?
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Question from Last Week:
Architecture Puzzler #458
If you placed a small, primary-colored red disk on a light-gray neutral background, stared at the disk for a full minute, and then quickly pulled away the disk, you would continue to see a colored disk at the same spot. What color would you see?
Answer to Puzzler #458
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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects
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A clearcut forest plantation in Brazil.
Photo: Chris Lang
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