Quiz  /  Architecture: The Built World Quiz

  • 1. 
    Who designed Hearst Castle?

  • Julia Morgan
  • William Randolph Hearst
  • Marian Davies
  • Orson Welles

  • 2. 
    The Seagram Building was designed by a team of architects. Who were they?

  • Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson
  • Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid
  • Charles Correa and I.M. Pei

  • 3. 
    What is the old city usually built around North African citadels called?

  • Old Quarter
  • Inner City
  • Casbah
  • Favela

  • 4. 
    What is the name of the tower associated with mosques?

  • muezzin
  • minaret
  • minbar
  • mizpah

  • 5. 
    Who designed the Hagia Sophia?

  • Justinian I
  • Theodora
  • Sinan
  • Saladin

  • 6. 
    What great Ottoman architect designed the Mosque of Süleyman I the Magnificent?

  • Saladin
  • Sinan
  • Omar Khayyam
  • Nūbār Pasha

  • 7. 
    Which iconic building in New York City did Andy Warhol feature in a single-shot documentary with an eight-hour run time?

  • the Chrysler Building
  • Trump Tower
  • the Empire State Building
  • the Guggenheim

  • 8. 
    Whose Turning Torso (1999–2005), a unique apartment tower in Malmö, Sweden, is based on a twisting spinal column?

  • Frank Gehry
  • Jean Nouvel
  • Santiago Calatrava
  • Zaha Hadid

  • 9. 
    What prolific female architect merged Modernism and populism in works she built largely in Brazil?

  • Clarice Lispector
  • Lota de Macedo Soares
  • Tarsila do Amaral
  • Lina Bo Bardi

  • 10. 
    Who was an up-and-coming Mexican architect in the early 21st century?

  • David Alfaro Siqueiros
  • Luis Barragan
  • Tatiana Bilbao
  • Carlos Slim
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