Question
Morphosis co-founder Thom Mayne proposed building a skyscraper next to one of these buildings made up of interlocking blocks of cantilevered concrete. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this type of building designed in Vals by Peter Zumthor. The Farnese Bull and Farnese Hercules were discovered during excavations of one of these buildings from the 3rd century CE.
ANSWER: baths [accept bathhouses or spas; accept Therme Vals or 7132 Thermal Baths; accept Baths of Caracalla or Terme di Caracalla or Thermae Antoninianae]
[10h] Zumthor collaborated with Louise Bourgeois on a witch trial memorial in this country. A firm from this country designed an SFMoMA extension, the Ithra Center, and the world’s largest underwater restaurant.
ANSWER: Norway [or Kingdom of Norway or Kongeriket Norge] (The architectural firm is Snøhetta. The restaurant is called Under.)
[10e] Zumthor is leading an ongoing renovation of this city’s County Museum of Art. Diller Scofidio + Renfro designed The Broad (“brohd”) in this city, which contains Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall.
ANSWER: Los Angeles [or LA; accept LACMA or Los Angeles County Museum of Art]
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Summary
2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 19 | 16.32 | 100% | 47% | 16% |
Data
Harvard | Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Chicago A | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Texas | Chicago B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Chicago C | Kentucky | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Cornell A | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Columbia B | Claremont Colleges | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Illinois | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
WUSTL A | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Brown | Iowa State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Johns Hopkins | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Maryland | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
NYU | Georgia Tech | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
North Carolina A | Minnesota A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
North Carolina B | McGill | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Michigan | Northwestern | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Penn | Toronto B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Cornell B | Truman State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Rutgers | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Waterloo | Stanford | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |