J. Irwin Miller encouraged this city to adopt an international reputation for modernist architecture by financing buildings such as Robert Venturi’s Fire Station No. 4. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this city, nicknamed “Athens on the Prairie,” which is home to many public works including Henry Moore’s Large Arch and I. M. Pei’s Cleo Rogers Memorial Library.
ANSWER: Columbus, Indiana
[10m] An architect from this country designed Columbus’s Irwin Union Bank and Miller House as well as the TWA Flight Centre. Another architect from this country founded the furniture company Artek.
ANSWER: Finland [or Suomi]
[10e] Both Eero Saarinen and his father Eliel designed these buildings for Columbus, the latter of which features a 160-foot-tall tower. Antoni Gaudí died before completing one of these buildings, the Sagrada Família.
ANSWER: churches [or cathedrals; accept Transitional Cathedral or First Christian Church]
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