Question
Tourists often wonder why a building designed by this artist with a pink façade lined with brown stripes is called the Green Citadel. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this artist whose manifesto The Holy Shit describes his motivations for designing a set of toilets. This artist used the term “tree tenants” for plants that stick out from his namesake mosaic-heavy apartment house in Vienna.
ANSWER: Friedensreich Hundertwasser (“FREE-denz-ryke HOON-dert-vahss-uh”) [or Friedrich Stowasser or Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser; accept Hundertwasserhaus]
[10m] Hundertwasser’s proposed design for this specific object used a green koru, a traditional spiral motif. A Kyle Lockwood design whose background is split into black and blue by a white fern won a 2016 referendum on this object.
ANSWER: flag of New Zealand [or flag of NZ or flag of Aotearoa]
[10e] Hundertwasser’s designs were motivated by his belief that straight lines are the “devil’s tools,” a stance similar to the one held by this architect who eschewed “unnatural” straight lines in his wavy Casa Milà.
ANSWER: Antoni Gaudí [or Antoni Gaudí i Cornet]
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Summary
2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 78% | 11% |
Data
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | BHSU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Quasicrystal Silence | I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
remembrance of lost time | Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Team Name Think Detail | The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
The Canadians | I would prefer not to | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
In Search of Things Past | wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |