Cardboard Construction
DAILY DOUBLE
This joint is made with a piece of cardboard shaped like a letter.
What is an L-Brace?
This building serves as a tribute to African American craftsmanship with an exterior bronze lattice that can be changed to control the entrance of light.
What is the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture?
This American architect designed more than 400 buildings and is considered one of the most famous architects of all time.
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
DAILY DOUBLE
This inspired Wasily Kandinsky while creating paintings.
What is music?
This clay building technique prevents pieces from falling apart during firing.
What is score and slip?
This joint is made by cutting notches into two pieces of cardboard and sliding them together.
What is slotting?
Built by a Frank architect this building features stainless-steel curves that resemble silver sails.
What is the Walt Disney Concert Hall?
This toy inspired Frank Lloyd Wright as a child and influenced his designs as an adult.
What are blocks?
What is OpArt?
This art making technique of layering cut or ripped paper with glue became popular after the creation of mass produced paper media like newspapers and magazine.
What is collage?
This technique makes flat cardboard flexible and bendy.
What is scoring?
This building was designed by Zaha Hadid who became the first woman to ever win the most prestigious award in architecture—the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
What is the Wangjing SOHO?
Wright's first distinctive buildings were known as these because of their organic harmony with the flat low lands of the Midwest.
What are prairie style houses?
This describes creating abstract art motivate by your emotions.
What is expressionism?
This artist tool can help plan color mixing as well as relationships like complimentary, analogous, split complimentary and more.
What is the color wheel?
This joint is made with two pieces of cardboard cut into a three-sided shape.
What is a triangle brace?
This building based on a flower is the tallest in the world at 2,716 feet.
What is the Burj Khalifa?
FLW followed this design principle which means that the design of each building should come from its uses rather than from architectural designs of the past.
What is "form follow function"?
This describes creating abstract art motivated by what the art looks like, not what it means.
What is formalism?
These art movement that began around 1920 in Europe took inspiration from dreams, games, accidents, and subconscious thought.
What is surrealism?
This gives cardboard its' strength and is made with three layers of paper, two flat and one wavy.
What is corrugation?
Located in Dubai this building is home to retail space, offices, residential units, and a hotel.
What is the Burj Khalifa?
This Prairie Style Chicago home features natural materials, art glass, open living spaces that flowed onto terraces, and is the subject of the novel The Wright 3.
What is the Robie House?
This Spanish artist is credited with making the most artworks ever created.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
These detailed drawings helped scientists identify a plant during different seasons and stages of its' life.
What are botanical illustrations?