Question
The magazine Building Design awarded a prize named for one of these things to the ugliest building built in the UK that year. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this term coined in an architectural context by King Charles III, who called a proposed modernist extension to the National Gallery a “monstrous” one of these things.
ANSWER: carbuncle [accept “monstrous carbuncle”; accept Carbuncle Cup]
[10e] This architect’s plan for Mansion House Square, a London office tower, was never implemented after Charles called it a “giant glass stump.” This German architect coined the maxim “Less is more.”
ANSWER: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (“meese van der roh”) [or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]
[10m] Charles compared this architect’s plans for rebuilding Paternoster Square with buildings bombed by the Luftwaffe. This British architect of the costly Millennium Dome, now called the O2, co-designed a French museum with colored piping on the exterior.
ANSWER: Richard Rogers [or Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside] (King Charles said, “You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings, it didn’t replace them with anything more offensive than rubble.”)
Data
Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chicago A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Chicago B | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Chicago C | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Claremont A | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Columbia B | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Cornell A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Georgia Tech A | Brown A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Georgia Tech B | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Imperial A | Houston A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Indiana A | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
MIT A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
McGill A | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Michigan A | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NYU A | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Northwestern A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Penn A | Iowa State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Purdue A | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Rutgers A | Penn State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Stanford A | Ohio State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Toronto A | Texas A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
UC Berkeley A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Vanderbilt A | Florida B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Virginia A | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Yale A | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |