Famous Architects

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Instructions: Legendary architects and their iconic buildings

1.
Which architect designed the iconic Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania?
A
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
B
Louis Sullivan
C
Le Corbusier
D
Frank Lloyd Wright
2.
Antoni Gaudí's unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Família, is located in which city?
A
Valencia
B
Madrid
C
Lisbon
D
Barcelona
3.
Which architect designed the Sydney Opera House?
A
Renzo Piano
B
Frank Gehry
C
Oscar Niemeyer
D
Jørn Utzon
4.
The phrase 'less is more' is associated with which pioneering modernist architect?
A
Le Corbusier
B
Walter Gropius
C
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
D
Frank Lloyd Wright
5.
Which Italian architect designed the colonnade of St. Peter's Square in Vatican City?
A
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
B
Filippo Brunelleschi
C
Andrea Palladio
D
Michelangelo
6.
Frank Gehry is famous for designing which titanium-clad museum in Bilbao, Spain?
A
Centre Pompidou
B
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
C
Prado Museum
D
Louvre Abu Dhabi
7.
Which architect designed the dome of the Florence Cathedral, a marvel of Renaissance engineering?
A
Leon Battista Alberti
B
Donato Bramante
C
Filippo Brunelleschi
D
Michelangelo
8.
I.M. Pei designed the glass pyramid entrance to which famous museum?
A
Metropolitan Museum of Art
B
Hermitage Museum
C
The Louvre
D
British Museum
9.
Which architect is known as the 'father of skyscrapers' for pioneering tall building design in Chicago?
A
Frank Lloyd Wright
B
Louis Sullivan
C
Henry Hobson Richardson
D
Daniel Burnham
10.
Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, was born in which country?
A
Egypt
B
Lebanon
C
Iran
D
Iraq
11.
Which architect founded the Bauhaus school of art and design in Germany?
A
Le Corbusier
B
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
C
Walter Gropius
D
Marcel Breuer
12.
Andrea Palladio's villa designs in the 16th century greatly influenced architecture in which country?
A
France
B
England
C
United States
D
All of the above
13.
Which architect designed the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, known for its spiral design?
A
Frank Lloyd Wright
B
Philip Johnson
C
Louis Kahn
D
Eero Saarinen
14.
Oscar Niemeyer was the principal architect of which South American capital city?
A
Buenos Aires
B
Lima
C
Brasília
D
Santiago
15.
Which architect designed the Centre Pompidou in Paris, known for its inside-out design with exposed pipes and ducts?
A
Santiago Calatrava
B
Norman Foster
C
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers
D
Jean Nouvel

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