Memorize these and you could recognize 28.7% of all Architecture clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frank Lloyd Wright | 24 | Reburial of this architect's remains, from Taliesin to Arizona, touched off stormy debate |
| 2 | Gothic | 18 | Italians scorned this northern European style of cathedral architecture, linking it with a barbarian tribe |
| 3 | I.M. Pei | 12 | The Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York was designed by this Chinese-American |
| 4 | Buckminster Fuller | 11 | Associated with geodesic domes, he once proposed saving energy by covering midtown Manhattan with a dome |
| 5 | the Bauhaus | 8 | Walter Gropius said this Dessau, Germany school "designed itself" |
| 6 | a column | 8 | In classical architecture, a caryatid is a sculpted female figure used as one of these |
| 7 | Sir Christopher Wren | 8 | Once a professor of astronomy, he designed the Royal Observatory at Greenwich |
| 8 | Corinthian | 7 | The 3 classical orders of Greek architecture were Doric, Ionic & this |
| 9 | Boston | 7 | Charles Bulfinch is famous for the beautiful houses he built on Beacon Hill in this city |
| 10 | windows | 7 | The "wheel windows" found in Gothic cathedrals are also known by this floral name |
| 11 | Mies van der Rohe | 7 | Buildings that resemble this architect's designs are described as Miesian |
| 12 | Eero Saarinen | 7 | At age 13 he emigrated from Finland to the United States with his architect father Eliel |
| 13 | Rome | 6 | The magnificent Farnese Palace in this capital city was designed partly by Michelangelo |
| 14 | Le Corbusier | 6 | Pseudonym of Swiss architect & city planner Charles-Edouard Jeanneret |
| 15 | Thomas Jefferson | 6 | This U.S. president's designs were greatly inspired by 16th century Ital. architect Andrea Palladio |
| 16 | Rococo | 5 | The term for this 18th century decorative style came from the French "rocaille", rockwork |
| 17 | Paris | 5 | From the 1850s to the 1920s, many Americans studied at l'École des Beaux-Arts in this city |
| 18 | Chicago | 5 | A style of window popular in commercial buildings of the 1890s is named for this Illinois city |
| 19 | Brazil | 5 | Oscar Niemeyer is this South American country's most famous architect |
| 20 | the Capitol | 5 | Thomas Ustick Walter was responsible for adding the wings & dome to this D.C. structure |
| 21 | a window | 5 | The casement type of this often opens outward by means of a crank |
| 22 | Walter Gropius | 5 | In 1949 this German- American architect & some former students designed the Graduate Center at Harvard |
| 23 | London | 4 | The most famous buildings designed by Inigo Jones are in this capital city |
| 24 | concrete | 4 | Francois Hennebique was a pioneer in the use of this "reinforced" material in architecture |
| 25 | bricks | 4 | Because the only building material available was mud, Sumerians began baking these |
| 26 | a pagoda | 4 | Typically, these towerlike Asian structures have stories that diminish in size from bottom to top |
| 27 | a dome | 4 | Byzantine style is characterized by a central one of these over a square space, as the Hagia Sophia |
| 28 | a buttress | 4 | It's an exterior support from the face of a wall, often of masonry; types include tower, hanging &, of course, flying |
| 29 | a belfry | 4 | From Old French for "portable siege tower", some have bats in them |
| 30 | Tudor | 3 | British architectural style that began after the accession of Henry VII |
| 31 | the Parthenon | 3 | This Doric temple on the Acropolis was built by Ictinus & Callicrates |
| 32 | the Lincoln Memorial | 3 | Henry Bacon styled this memorial in Washington's Potomac Park after a classic Greek temple |
| 33 | Romanesque | 3 | Preceding the Gothic, this period in European architecture flourished in the 11th-12th c. |
| 34 | Philip Johnson | 3 | This American architect who turned 95 in 2001 is known for his "Glass House" of 1949 |
| 35 | New York City | 3 | Eero Saarinen's only skyscraper is CBS Headquarters in this city |
| 36 | Montreal | 3 | An innovative housing project called Habitat was built for this city's Expo 67 |
| 37 | minarets | 3 | In north Africa, these towers from which Muslims are called to prayer are rectangular in plan |
| 38 | Georgian | 3 | This style influenced by the Romans is named for England's 4 kings between 1714 & 1830 |
| 39 | columns | 3 | The Greeks reversed the Egyptian style by putting the walls on the inside, these on the outside |
| 40 | Albert Speer | 3 | "Inside the Third Reich" is a memoir by this man, Hitler's chief architect |
| 41 | a geodesic dome | 3 | The U.S pavilion at Expo '67 was contained in this type of structure |
| 42 | the nave | 3 | Flanked by aisles, this chief area within a church extends from the main entrance to the sanctuary |
| 43 | the baths | 3 | Its 3 main components were the caldarium, frigidarium & tepidarium |
| 44 | Prairie Style | 3 | The Coonley Estate & the Robie House are examples of this midwestern style created by Frank Lloyd Wright |
| 45 | a staircase | 3 | Virginia's Shirley Plantation has a "hanging" flight of these rising 3 stories without visible support |
| 46 | a keystone | 3 | The central stone of an arch that holds the rest in place, named for its importance |
| 47 | wood | 2 | Due to building with this material, very little Chinese architecture from before 16th c. has survived |
| 48 | Watergate | 2 | Luigi Moretti designed buildings for Mussolini & this Washington, D.C. complex that led to Nixon's fall |
| 49 | Walt Disney World | 2 | Michael Graves' Dolphin Hotel at this Florida theme park is topped with 2 55'-high dolphin sculptures |
| 50 | the Washington Monument | 2 | Robert Mills designed this D.C. structure, for a few years the world's tallest |