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Frank Lloyd Wright 26x 7.7% stumper $535 avg J:5 DJ:21

J $200 2010 In 1932 he created the Taliesin fellowship for those wanting to learn organic architecture

J $500 1991 Architect who observed, "No house should be on any hill but of the hill"

DJ $1,000 1995 12,000 concrete blocks were used to build one of his major works, the Freeman House in the Hollywood Hills

Gothic 19x 5.3% stumper $684 avg J:3 DJ:16

J $200 2017 Chartres Cathedralis a prime example of this type of architecture

J $500 1994 The decorated form of this medieval style can be seen in the Angel Choir of Lincoln Cathedral

DJ $1,200 2025 Charles Barry & A.W.N. Pugin designed Big Ben's tower in the 19th century revival of this style

I.M. Pei 13x 7.7% stumper $938 avg J:1 DJ:12

DJ $400 2025 The first museum commission for this architect was the Eversonin Syracuse; later, the Louvre came calling

DJ $600 1995 This Canton-born architect designed the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse

DJ $1,200 2010 In the 1970s this Chinese American designed the aluminum-clad skyscraper at 88 Pine Street in New York City

Buckminster Fuller 11x $945 avg J:2 DJ:9

DJ $400 2008 The first geodesic dome was built in 1922 in Germany, but it was this man who received a patent for it 32 years later

DJ $800 1990 Architect who designed the Climatron, an enclosed geodesic dome at the Missouri Botanical Garden

DJ $2,800 DD 2008 He designed the geodesic dome for the United States pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal

Sir Christopher Wren 9x 12.5% stumper $1,138 avg J:2 DJ:6 FJ:1

DJ $400 1995 After the Great Fire of London in 1666, he designed more than 50 new churches

J $500 1991 He was an astronomy professor at Oxford but the first building he designed was a chapel at Cambridge

J $1,500 DD 2023 In the 1690s he began designing the twin-domed Royal Hospital for seamen in London

the Bauhaus 8x $1,012 avg J:1 DJ:7

DJ $800 1997 Walter Gropius said this Dessau, Germany school "designed itself"

DJ $1,200 2005 Walter Gropius founded this innovative design school at Weimar in 1919

J $500 1989 Walter Gropius designed the new building at Dessau into which this school moved in 1925

a column 8x 12.5% stumper $800 avg J:2 DJ:6

J $400 2019 Doric & Ionic are types of this basic support structure

DJ $600 1990 In classical architecture, a caryatid is a sculpted female figure used as one of these

DJ $1,200 2013 A pilaster is one of these with a capital & base like free-standing ones, but rectangular & set into a wall

Eero Saarinen 8x 25.0% stumper $1,388 avg DJ:8

DJ $800 2001 This Finn won 2nd prize in the Chicago Tribune building contest in 1922 & moved to the U.S. the following year

DJ $1,600 2016 This Finnish American is seenhereseated in a prototype of hiswomb chair in 1947

DJ $2,000 2020 Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, New York was designed by these father & son Finnish architects, Eliel & Eero

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Corinthian 7x $1,543 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $200 2000 The 3 orders of ancient Greek column were doric, ionic, & this ornate one named for a city

J $600 2017 (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows three different column illustrations on the monitor.) The ancient orders of architecture can be identified by different features: Doric is the simplest, while Ionic has twin scrolls called volutes; stylized acanthus leav...

DJ $1,000 1991 Of the 3 classical Greek orders of architecture, this one, named for a city, was the most ornate

Boston 7x 14.3% stumper $400 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $100 2001 In 1805 Charles Bulfinch enlarged this city's Faneuil Hall

DJ $800 1993 Asher Benjamin designed this American city's Charles Street Meeting House & West Church

DJ $1,000 1997 Charles Bulfinch served on this city's Board of Selectmen from 1791 to 1817

windows 7x 28.6% stumper $443 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $100 1996 Bay, Bow & Oriel are special types of these openings

DJ $600 1992 Types of these include Diocletian, bull's-eye & bay

DJ $200 1990 Examples of these features are bay, casement & jalousie

Mies van der Rohe 7x 57.1% stumper $1,429 avg DJ:7

DJ $800 1991 Ludwig Mies appended this, his mother's surname, to his own

DJ $1,000 1997 Built in 1968, this architect's New National Gallery in West Berlin exemplifies his "less is more" style

DJ $1,000 1995 He designed the German Pavilion as well as his Barcelona chair for the 1929 Barcelona Exhibition

Rome 6x 50.0% stumper $433 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $100 1995 Designed by Donato Bramante, the Tempietto of San Pietro in this city marks the site of St. Peter's martyrdom

DJ $800 2007 Carlo Maderno is famed for his baroque facade for the Church of Santa Susanna in this world capital

DJ $200 1996 The term catacomb was first applied to the Christian cemetery under San Sebastiano outside this city

Le Corbusier 6x 66.7% stumper $1,433 avg DJ:6

DJ $1,000 2001 From 1920 to 1925 he & French painter Amedee Ozenfant edited L'Esprit Nouveau, an avant-garde magazine

DJ $1,000 1994 Swiss-born architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret is better known by this pseudonym

DJ $1,000 1990 Havard's Visual Arts Center is the only U.S. building completely designed by this French-Swiss architect

Thomas Jefferson 6x $900 avg DJ:6

DJ $400 2008 Andrea Palladio's Villa Rotunda near Vicenza, Italy was a major influence on his design for Monticello

DJ $600 2001 Andrea Palladio's Villa Rotunda near Vicenza, Italy was a major influence on his design for Monticello

DJ $3,400 DD 1989 This U.S. president's designs were greatly inspired by 16th century Ital. architect Andrea Palladio

Rococo 5x 20.0% stumper $640 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2002 The name of this ornate style of Baroque architecture probably comes from the French for "rockwork"

DJ $600 1995 From the French for "rock-work", this art style was popular during the reign of Louis XV

DJ $1,000 1992 Juste-Aurele Meissonier, who popularized the shell motif in the 1700s, has been called the father of this style

Paris 5x $320 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $100 1994 Italian high-tech architect Renzo Piano co-designed this city's celebrated Pompidou Center

J $500 1995 Charles Garnier won an 1860s competition to design this European city's famed opera house

DJ $200 1990 From the 1850s to the 1920s, many Americans studied at l'École des Beaux-Arts in this city

Chicago 5x 40.0% stumper $600 avg DJ:5

DJ $400 2015 Architect Bertrand Goldberg changed this city's skyline with the twin towers of Marina Cityon State Street

DJ $600 1994 A style of window popular in commercial buildings of the 1890s is named for this Illinois city

DJ $400 1997 Eliel Saarinen moved to the U.S. after placing second in the competition to design this city's Tribune Tower

Brazil 5x 60.0% stumper $1,460 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $500 1994 Oscar Niemeyer is this South American country's most famous architect

DJ $1,200 2010 Niteroi's Museum of Contemporary Artoverlooks Guanabara Bay in this country

DJ $1,600 2021 Oscar Niemeyer's Museum of Contemporary Artin this, his native country, is a landmark of modern architecture

the Capitol 5x $280 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $200 1994 Thomas Ustick Walter was responsible for adding the wings & dome to this D.C. structure

DJ $200 1995 William Thornton earned $500 & a city lot for his 1792 design of this domed D.C. building

DJ $200 1991 Thomas Walter designed an iron dome to replace this D.C. building's original one

a window 5x 20.0% stumper $540 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $200 1993 The sash is the framework that holds the glass part of one of these

DJ $1,600 2019 A fanlight isn't a fixture with rotating blades--it's one of these

J $300 1991 These accessories can be bulls-eye, bow or bay

Walter Gropius 5x 40.0% stumper $1,280 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $400 1993 In 1949 this German- American architect & some former students designed the Graduate Center at Harvard

DJ $800 1997 While teaching at Harvard, this Bauhaus founder helped design the Harvard University Graduate Center

DJ $2,000 2012 After WWI he became director of the Grand Ducal art school in Weimar; in 1925 he moved the school to Dessau

London 4x 50.0% stumper $425 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $100 1992 Christopher Wren authorized or made designs for more than 50 churches in this city

DJ $600 1990 The most famous buildings designed by Inigo Jones are in this capital city

DJ $200 1999 The most famous structure designed by George Dance the Younger was this city's Newgate Prison

concrete 4x $450 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1995 Francois Hennebique was a pioneer in the use of this "reinforced" material in architecture

DJ $800 2020 Pier Luigi Nervi innovated the use of steel-reinforced this material for buildings, & he even built boats from it

DJ $400 2015 In the 1870s Francois Hennebique pioneered the use of reinforced this in building construction

bricks 4x 25.0% stumper $900 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1986 Because the only building material available was mud, Sumerians began baking these

DJ $800 2004 Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of these & left it a city of marble

J $1,000 2006 Clinkers, face & cored are types of these building materials

a pagoda 4x $450 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1996 This tiered Buddhist temple tower is called a Sotoba or Tahoto in Japanese

DJ $1,200 2013 Said to gather all light & positive spirits, asorinis the nine-ringed spire placed atop this type of shrine seen here

DJ $200 1995 The sorin is the spire on the top of one of these Japanese temples

a dome 4x 25.0% stumper $350 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1994 The United States pavilion at Expo 67 was a geodesic one of these

J $500 1991 Byzantine style is characterized by a central one of these over a square space, as the Hagia Sophia

DJ $400 2012 Pendentives are used to place this vaulted circular roof atop a square room

columns 4x $900 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1988 The 3 Greek orders refer not to takeout from Nick's Cafe but to styles of these supports

DJ $1,600 2011 Craftsman homes feature these on the porch, but they're square, not round as in ancient Greek temples

DJ $800 1987 The Greeks reversed the Egyptian style by putting the walls on the inside, these on the outside

the baths 4x 50.0% stumper $950 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2012 The caldarium, the tepidarium & the frigidarium were chambers in these, where olden Romans refreshed themselves

DJ $600 1992 These Roman structures for washing & socializing were called thermae, from Greek for hot

DJ $2,000 DD 2018 Underground passageways made movement easy in these Roman places with rooms like frigidariums & tepidariums

Frank Gehry 4x $1,450 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $1,000 2017 This American architect designed the University of Minnesota's Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum seen here

DJ $1,200 2007 This architect of L.A.'s Disney Concert Hall called it "a strange kind of sailing ship sitting in a box"

DJ $1,600 2025 He thought of Bernini's sculpture of St. Teresa & its lifelike robe folds for his Spruce Street Towerin Downtown Manhattan

a buttress 4x $550 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 DD 1995 One of these supports counterbalances the thrust of a vault

DJ $600 1992 A flying one of these is an arched support extending from a column to a wall

J $1,000 2023 To reinforce a viewpoint, idiomatically as in "you need to" this structural support "your argument with hard facts"

a belfry 4x $225 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1991 Bats & bells both hang in this upper story of a church tower

DJ $400 2004 A small campanile, hopefully batless

J $100 1996 It's a cupola or tower for bells or bats

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Tudor 3 the Parthenon 3 the Lincoln Memorial 3 Romanesque 3 Philip Johnson 3 New York City 3 Montreal 3 minarets 3 Georgian 3 Albert Speer 3 a geodesic dome 3 Walt Disney World 3 the nave 3 Prairie Style 3 Hearst 3 a staircase 3 a keystone 3 a gable 3 the steeple 3 the skyscraper 3 the roof 3 the Crystal Cathedral 3 wood 2 Watergate 2 the Washington Monument 2 the University of Virginia 2 the Louvre 2 the Crystal Palace 2 the Chrysler Building 2 the apse 2 Stonehenge 2 St. Peter's Basilica 2 St. Peter's 2 shingles 2 Portugal 2 Penn Station 2 pedestal 2 Newport 2 New York 2 New Delhi 2 Neoclassical 2 mortar 2 minaret 2 Mecca 2 Madison Square Garden 2 Los Angeles 2 leaves 2 Istanbul 2 iron 2 Hartford 2 Gothic architecture 2 gingerbread 2 casement 2 Barcelona 2 Australia 2 Antonio Gaudi 2 an arch 2 an abacus 2 adobe 2 a tower 2 a sash 2 a portico 2 a parapet 2 a church 2 a casino 2 a balustrade 2 the World Trade Center 2 the Sydney Opera House 2 the Smithsonian 2 the Prairie School 2 the portcullis 2 the Pompidou Centre 2 the Getty 2 the frieze 2 the dungeon 2 the cornice 2 a skylight 2 Queen Anne 2 Pierre L'Enfant 2 an onion 2 Maya Ying Lin 2 Louis Sullivan 2 Jones 2 a facade 2 Alexandria, Egypt 2 a Doric 2 Constantinople (or Istanbul) 2 Charles Bulfinch 2 a Cape Cod 2 a cantilever 2 Byzantine 2 a cantilever beam 2 a bay window 2 an atrium 2 an arcade 2

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