This architect claimed that in the 1930s he happened upon a book by “an author completely unknown to me by the name of Adolf Hitler” and liked his ideas about architecture. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this architect who included a striking façade facing Töölö (“TER-lah”) Bay in his design for Finlandia Hall.
ANSWER: Alvar Aalto [or Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto]
[10m] This architect took no commission on the Kneses Tifereth (“keh-NESS-es tiff-ur-ETH”) synagogue in Port Chester, New York to atone for pro-Nazi views in the 1930s. This architect of the Glass House collaborated with Mies van der Rohe on the Seagram Building.
ANSWER: Philip Johnson [or Philip Cortelyou Johnson]
[10e] Nazi architect Albert Speer designed a never-constructed “People’s Hall” with a large one of these structures. The Roman Pantheon is topped with the world’s largest unreinforced concrete one of these hemispherical elements.
ANSWER: domes [prompt on roofs; reject “ceiling”]
<Michael Bentley, Fine Arts - Architecture> ~20442~ <Editor: Young Lee>