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100

A Canadian-born American starchitect was depicted in the Simpsons as described " ________ crumples up a piece of paper, tosses it to the ground, and suddenly becomes inspired to build a similar-looking concert hall for Springfield." 

Who is Frank Gehry?

100

Term used to describe this open porch with columns supporting a pedimental roof, creating the entrance and/or center piece of a facade. 

What is a portico? 

100

The first Monday of October is celebrated as __________.

What is World Architecture Day?

100

Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati building that lets you see all the curating going on is the USA's first of these, designed by a female. 

What is a Museum. 

100

Name this tower. 

What is Stark/Avengers Tower?

200

This documentary film follows the careers of four female architects (including Phyllis Lambert, founder of CCA) who worked to redesign urban landscapes to make them more sustainable and accessible. 

What is "City Dreamers"?

200

Name the art movement a urinal, presented upside down, with the text R. Mutt was part of. 


What is Dadaism?

200

A meat made of raw beef was famous wore by this artist. 

Who is Lady Gaga?

200

Recipients of the Pritzker Prize receive a medallion based on designs by this Chicago based architect. 

Who is Louis Sullivan?

200

Salma Hayek portrayed this Mexican painter in an Oscar nominated film.

Who is Frida Kahlo? 

300

Name this painting in the background, controversially acquired by the National Gallery of Canada for a whooping 1.8M in the 1990s. 

What is "Voice of Fire" ? 

By Barnett Newman

300

______ is a term applied to art and design that is perceived as naive imitation, or of banal taste. 

What is Kitsch?

300

John Lennon & Chuck Berry's duet was interpreted by this infamous Artist's performance on teh 1972 Mike Douglas show. 

Who is Yoko Ono? 

300

In 2018, he became the first Indian architect to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, and is considered a pioneer of modernist and brutalist architecture in India. 

Who is Balkrishna Doshi? 

300

In this movie, the main character states 

"What is this? A Center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read.. if they can't even fit inside the building?" 

after looking at a scaled model of a building. 

What is "Zoolander"? 

400

This iconic painting by Canadian artist Tom Thomson named "The Jack Pine" is inspired by a site at this national park. 

What is the Algonquin Park? 

400

This type of window that opens by means of a crank rhymes with a lower storey of a building. 

What is a casement?

400

This actor, turned performance artist, sat at a gallery in LA for six days wearing a tuxedo, and now-infamous paper bag, crying in front of visitors. This performance was tilted "#IAMSORRY."

Who is Shia LaBeouf?

400

This Toronto-based firm designed the Baha'i Temple of South America. 

Who is Hariri Pontarini Architects?

400

The film revolves around an Architect (played by Keanu Reeves) living in 2004 and a doctor (Sandra Bullock) living in 2006 who meet via letter in the mailbox of a lake house where they both lived at separate points in time.  

What is "the Lake House" 

500

This Canadian-born American abstract painter is known to paint/draw the "grid," inspired by the prairies.  

Who is Agnes Martin? 

500

This three-part panel was common form for altarpieces in medieval art.

What is a triptych?

500

This architect famously announced that Modern Architecture ended at 3:32pm on July 15, 1972 with the destruction of the Pruitt-Igoe housing estate in Missouri.  

Who is Charles Jencks?

500

This architect famously designed new home for Museum of Sao Paulo (MASP) by suspending it above a 70m long square. 

Who is Lina Bo Bardi?

500

This movie revolves around a driven, detailed obsessed architect travelling from America to Rome to supervise an exhibition. While there, he begins to have mysterious stomach pains while his life slowly falls apart. 

What is "The Belly of an Architect."