NAME THAT BUILDING
PENN STATE
FAMOUS LANDMARKS
NAME THAT STYLE
FAMOUS ARCHITECTS
100
What is Fallingwater?
100
Penn State's most iconic building.
What is Old Main?
100
This 330-meter iron tower was constructed for the 1889 World's Fair.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
100
What is Gothic?
100
This American architect designed Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
200
These sail-like shells make this one of the world's most recognizable buildings.
What is the Sydney Opera House?
200
A gift of the class of 1940, completed by sculptor Heinz Warneke from a 13-ton block of Indiana limestone in 1942.
What is the Nittany Lion Shrine?
200
This ancient Roman amphitheater could hold tens of thousands of spectators.
What is the Colosseum?
200
Geometric patterns, symmetry, and decorative ornamentation characterize this early-20th-century style.
What is Art Deco?
200
This architect designed the Heydar Aliyev Center, famous for its flowing white curves.
Who is Zaha Hadid?
300
This famous New York museum was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and is recognizable for its giant spiral form.
What is the Guggenheim Museum?
300
The main library at University Park
What is Pattee and Paterno Library?
300
This ancient Roman building is famous for its massive concrete dome and central oculus.
What is the Pantheon
300
This style is known for exposed concrete, massive forms, and a lack of decorative finishes.
What is Brutalism?
300
This Swiss-French architect developed the "Five Points of Architecture" and designed Villa Savoye
Who is Le Corbusier?
400
What is Villa Savoye?
400
This Penn State building is built right over a busy road, so cars drive underneath it every day. Name the building.
What is the IST Building
400
This white marble tomb in Agra, India, was built by an emperor for his beloved wife.
What is the Taj Mahal?
400
"Less is more" is associated with this architectural movement and its emphasis on simplicity, function, and new materials.
What is Modernism?
400
This architect designed the glass pyramid at the entrance of the Louvre in Paris.
Who is I. M. Pei?
500
Louis Kahn designed this California research center with a famous central plaza and water channel.
What is the Salk Institute?
500
Before blue and white, Penn State's original school colors were these two.
What are pink and black?
500
This church in Moscow's Red Square is famous for its colorful onion domes.
St. Basil's Cathedral
500
Buildings characterized by columns, pediments, symmetry, and inspiration from ancient Greece belong to this style.
What is Greek Revival?
500
This architect designed the Salk Institute and famously said, "I believe architecture is the thoughtful making of spaces."
Who is Louis Kahn