Question
Answer the following about Minnette de Silva, the first Sri Lankan woman architect, for 10 points each.
[10e] As the youngest and first Asian delegate to a meeting of the International Congress of Modern Architecture, de Silva befriended this architect, whose later works in the Indian subcontinent include designing Chandigarh.
ANSWER: Le Corbusier [or Charles-Édouard Jeanneret]
[10m] De Silva highlighted traditional crafts by employing artisans to create dumbaras, a Sri Lankan type of these decorative items, for many of her houses. Traditional Japanese homes feature a sort of these items called tatami.
ANSWER: mats [accept flooring; reject “rugs”]
[10h] Although de Silva’s style is often dubbed “tropical modernism,” she preferred to call it a “modern” form of this term. Her use of this term predates the popularization of a similar term in an essay subtitled “six points for an architecture of resistance” by nearly 25 years.
ANSWER: regionalism [or modern regionalism or critical regionalism]
<Ani Perumalla, Other Fine Arts>
Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 22.22 | 100% | 100% | 22% |
Data
| The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | BHSU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Evans Hall destruction awaiters | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Quasicrystal Silence | I would prefer not to | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Team Name Think Detail | remembrance of lost time | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Saint Peter Andre 3000 | In Search of Things Past | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | The Canadians | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |