Data Center Trivia
Guess the Architect
Corgan History
Architectural Theory
5th Category
100
This country is currently host to the largest data center in the world.
China (Telecom Inner Mongolia)
100
This architect is known for pioneering the concept of the atrium as well as several popular Atlanta projects.
John Portman
100
Corgan's founder's full name.
Jack M. Corgan
100
This source of this image:
The Archigram Magazine
100
This school was consolidated into Kennesaw State University in 2015 and its campus still serves as one of the few NCARB accredited architecture schools in Georgia.
Southern Polytechnic University (SPSU)
200
As of 2025, this is the percent of the world's energy consumption that data centers are responsible for. (~5%)
2%
200
This studio was founded in 1981 and was among other things responsible for popularizing folding architecture.
Diller Scofidio & Renfro (Columbia College)
200
The year Corgan was founded
1938
200
The five points of modern architecture, according to Le Corbusier.
Pilotis(supports), free plan, free facade, ribbon windows, & roof garden.
200
This Austrian architect would most probably not be a fan of Christmas tree decorations.
Adolf Loos "Ornamentation is crime"
300
The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) is currently credited as the world's first data center used by the U.S. army to store defense codes, this is the year that it became operational.
(~5 years)
1946
300
As part of the 3rd world modernist movement which sought to modernize previously oppressed nations, this architect along with a team designed India's car focused proposed new capital.
Le Corbusier, Chandigarh (Jane Drew, Maxwell Fry, & Pierre Jeanneret)
300
According to Wikipedia Corgan got it's start designing over 90 of this entertainment typology.
Movie theaters
300
This 1920's architectural and art movement was a response to the industrial revolution seeking to make a college of industrial materials and elements, starting in western Europe before spreading around the world.
Russian Constructivism
300
Known as the birthplace of the modern skyscraper and steel frame construction.
Chicago
400
As of 2025 roughly 1/3 of all data centers in the U.S. are in these three states.
Virginia (643), Texas (395), & California (319)
400
The architect responsible for geodesic domes, the dymaxion house, and the book behind your grandmother's favorite ride at Disney World.
Buckminster Fuller
400
The number of offices that Corgan has in the United States
19
400
On the cover of this famously entertaining retroactive manifesto two buildings are caught in the act of adultery.
Delirious New York By: Rem Koolhaas
400
In the movie Blade Runner (1982) one of this architect's later works was featured as the futuristic apartment home for the film's main character Deckard.
Frank Lloyd Wright (Ennis House)
500
The new proposed location of a completely solar powered data center
Orbit!
500
This southern architect is responsible for leading a "rural studio" in Alabama
Samuel Mockbee
500
The year that Corgan formalized it's data center sector
(~5 year range)
1979
500
Gottfried Semper claimed that these four elements of architecture inspired all of humanity's pursuits in the arts and sciences.
The hearth, mound, roof/structure, and enclosure
500
This architect originally advertised his work in women's home magazines
Frank Lloyd Wright
(Ladies Home Journal Feb. 1901)