Quiz Questions - Architecture Quiz

Well for todays quiz I’m going to have a bit of an Architectural Theme……Answers as usual to your yourself, in comment box or to fully234@hotmail.com

1. Name the famous architect who designed the town plan for Chandigarh, India?
2. In 1851 Joseph Paxton designed which building for the Great Exhibition?
3. Name the school of architecture founded by Walter Gropius in 1919?
4. Which Prize, often known as “architectures nobel” began in 1979 and has been issued annual ever since to a living architect for  their lifetime of achievement?
5. Which building this week, constructed for an event to be held in London next year, was announced as the front runner for the Stirling Prize?
6. Who was the main architect behind the Great London Plan of 1944 to rebuild the city after the war?
7. John Fowler and whom worked together to complete both the Forth Rail Bridge and London Underground System?
8. Which architect and landscape gardener earned the nickname “Capability” due to his stock reply that every garden he worked on had “excellent capabilities”?
9. Which American Architect is often referred to as the Father of Modernism and he Father of the Skyscraper?
10. Which Scottish Architect was responsible for the Caledonian Canal?
11. What was the nationality of the architect who designed the Sydney Opera House?
12. Coventry Cathedral was designed by whom?
13. What is a Campanile?
14. Brunel built which of his Bridges over the Tamra?
15. And finally……..The Albert Memorial and St Pancreas Station were built by whom?

Next week Ill choose a different theme but hope you enjoy this weeks Architecture Quiz!