Luis Barragán - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

This architect, who often requested meals in which all the foods were pink, designed modernist houses on a former lava field called the “rocky gardens.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this architect whose Satellite Towers are painted in bright, monochromatic colors. This architect’s house and studio is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Mexico City.

ANSWER: Luis Barragán [or Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín]

[10m] Jill Magid turned Barragán’s ashes into a diamond ring to convince this country’s furniture company Vitra to publicize his archive. This country’s firm Herzog and de Meuron (“duh mur-ON”) used 300 thousand LEDs in their design for the Allianz Arena.

ANSWER: Switzerland [or Swiss Confederation; or Schweiz; or Suisse; or Svizzera; or Svizra]

[10e] This artist, who advised Barragán on his design for the Jardines del Pedregal, died before the completion of his Anahuacalli (“ah-nah-wah-KAH-lee”) Museum. This muralist lived in his wife’s Casa Azul, or “blue house,” in Mexico City.

ANSWER: Diego Rivera [or Diego María Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez]

<AP, Other Fine Arts>

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Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	11.00	80%	10%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	10.00	75%	13%	13%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%

Data


Chicago B	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Chicago C	Chicago A	0	0	10	10
Illinois B	Missoui S&T	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame B	Georgetown A	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Georgetown B	0	0	10	10
Iowa	Northwestern B	0	0	10	10
Rutgers A	Cornell B	0	0	10	10
George Washington A	Columbia C	0	0	10	10
Maryland A	George Washington B	0	0	10	10
Vassar A	Haverford A	0	0	0	0
Haverford B	Penn B	0	0	0	0
Columbia B	John Jay College	0	0	10	10
Florida B	Florida State A	0	0	10	10
Florida A	UCF B	0	0	10	10
UCF C	Valencia A	0	0	0	0
Carnegie Mellon A	Case Western B	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Case Western A	0	0	10	10
Michigan State	Kenyon	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Carnegie Mellon B	0	10	10	20
Michigan D	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Northwestern A	Purdue	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Notre Dame C	0	0	10	10
UW B	Alberta	0	0	10	10
UBC	UW A	0	0	10	10
ASU	Texas A	0	0	10	10
TAMU	Texas B	0	0	10	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Louisville A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Tennessee A	0	0	10	10
Southampton A	Bristol	0	0	0	0
Cambridge A	Southampton B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	Durham	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
LSE	Warwick B	10	10	10	30
Manchester	Oxford B	0	0	10	10
NYU C	Cambridge E	0	0	0	0
Sheffield	Oxford A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge D	Oxford C	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Warwick A	10	0	10	20
Duke	Wake Forest	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty B	0	0	10	10
South Carolina	UNC C	0	0	10	10
UNC B	UNC D	0	0	10	10
Virginia A	William & Mary	0	0	10	10
Illinois C	Indiana A	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Missouri	0	0	10	10
WashU A	WashU B	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Wisconsin B	0	0	10	10
Minnesota B	Wisconsin A	10	10	10	30
Winona State	Carleton	0	0	10	10
BU	Dartmouth A	0	0	10	10
Brandeis B	Tufts A	0	0	10	10
Brandeis A	Brown A	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	MIT A	0	10	10	20
Harvard B	UMass Boston	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Vanderbilt A	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Penn A	10	10	10	30
Yale A	Johns Hopkins A	0	0	10	10
ESF A	Cornell C	0	0	0	0
RIT A	Binghamton A	0	0	10	10
Cornell D	RIT B	0	0	10	10