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1
Q

What did Nikolaus Pevsner think it was folly to abandon?

A

The international style

2
Q

When the ???? Flats in St. Louis designed by Minori Yamasaki, were blown up.

A

Pruitt Igoe

3
Q

…. were the two kinds which made up the bulk of the later modern movement and characterized modern cities- mass housing and ????

A

Office development

4
Q

…. the latest architecture is characterised by ?????

A

Pluralism

5
Q

If steel and concrete were the essential structural materials of the early modern movement, the ubiquitous material for today is ?????

A

Glass

6
Q

???? Startled America with his supple, soaring and bird like TWA Terminal…..

A

Week Saarinen

7
Q

The architect who expressed the mood most clearly and concisely, both in words and in actions, was ?????’

A

Robert Venturi

8
Q

After a brief interlude known as the New ????, in which architects influenced by the later buildings of Le corb used materials…..

A

Brutalism

9
Q

In Finland, formerly dominated by the unique and thoughtful Alvar Aalto, an outstanding and even more original follower has been ????

A

Reina Pietila

10
Q

What style of architecture does it represent?

A

Postmodernism