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Quizzical Pursuit
—The Architecture Puzzler
Created by Dave Guadagni
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Architecture Puzzler #482
First published in Venice in 1570, this influential book was republished in Italian several times before being published in English in 1715. It was divided into four parts, the first on building materials and techniques, the second on large private houses, the third on streets, piazzas, bridges and basilicas, and the fourth on temples. What is the title of this book (still available today), and who is the author?
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Question from Last Week:
Architecture Puzzler #481
True or false?
A. When the Islamic Cultural Center by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was built in 1992, it was New York's first mosque.
B. The design is based on geometric patterns of squares and has no figurative representations.
C. The building is oriented 28 degrees off of the city grid for religious reasons.
Answer to Puzzler #481
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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects
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Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy, designed by Bernini.
Photo: Howard Davis/ Artifice Images
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