Louis Kahn - 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell

Question

This architect proclaimed “A room is not a room without natural light” and designed an octagonal government building whose assembly chamber is lit by large semi-circle-shaped windows. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Estonian-American architect who designed the National Parliament House of Bangladesh and filtered light through barrel vaults in his design for the Kimball Art Museum.

ANSWER: Louis Kahn [or Louis Isadore Kahn; or Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky]

[10m] Large bay windows let natural light into this building through its free façades. This concrete “machine for living” was constructed outside Paris to exemplify its creator’s Five Points of Architecture.

ANSWER: Villa Savoye (The Villa Savoye was constructed by Le Corbusier.)

[10e] At this building, a large oculus lets in natural light through the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome. This Roman temple was dedicated to all the gods.

ANSWER: Pantheon [or the Roman Pantheon or Pantheum or Pantheion]

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	8	10.00	88%	13%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	18.00	80%	80%	20%
2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT	01/27/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


Cornell A	Binghamton	0	10	10	20
Cornell C	Cornell B	0	0	10	10