Question
Buildings whose shape represents their purpose are termed “ducks” and contrasted with “decorated” architecture in a book titled for this city. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city, the subject of a critique on modernist architecture titled Learning from [it]. The world’s strongest light beam is located in a pyramid-shaped building in this city.
ANSWER: Las Vegas [accept Learning from Las Vegas; accept Paradise]
[10h] Learning From Las Vegas was written by Steve Izenour and these two postmodernist architects. A firm named for this husband-and-wife pair designed the current building of the Seattle Art Museum.
ANSWER: Robert Venturi AND Denise Scott Brown [accept Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates]
[10e] Venturi’s quip that “less is a bore” plays on this other architect’s maxim that “less is more.” This last director of the Bauhaus designed the Seagram Building.
ANSWER: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe [accept Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]
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Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 60% | 20% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
Data
| USN A | Belmont | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Claremont | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Vanderbilt B | WUSTL | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |