UT ARC308 Test 1 Building Review

Bishop's Palace — Clayton

pretty Galveston merchant house color CLAY yet fit for a BISHOP

Foam House — Harker

spray FOAM HOUSE that HARKens to the Hippie era

Parthenon

big greek temple ruin

St. Peter's Basilica — Bramante + Sangallo + Michelangelo...

lots of italians build very big rome church

Library in San Antonio — Legorreta

red and blocky like LEGOs by LEGO-rreta

Gut Garkau Farm — Hugo Haering

i am HAERING the cows moo and my GUT craves cheese

Barcelona Pavilion — Mies van der Rohe

Pavilion with a Pool you could try to ROHE across

Farnsworth House — Mies van der Rohe

single lady had no WORTH in a ROHE of curtains to cover her big windows

New State Chancellery — Speer

nazi ego SPEERS germany in efforts to make a NEW STATE

Chartres Cathedral

like the name, the first tower is skinny (and tall) "Chartres" the other one is wide (and shorter) "Cathedral"

Vaux-le-Vicomte — Le Vau + Le Notre + Le Brun

a bunch of french guys build a house and the king VAUX (vow) to build an even better one

Taj Mahal — Shah Jahan

gorgeous grave by heartbroken emperor for his wife

Ronchamps Chapel — Le Corbusier

i am CHAMPing at the bit to see this chapel one le corbu-DAY

Sydney Opera House — Utzon

looks like a bird that would like to eat UTZ crackers

Villa Rotunda — Palladio

PALace-like ROUND and square building

Casa Rotunda — Stabio

if i wore the ROTUND casa as a helmet, you wouldn't be able to STABIO me!

Bryn Mawr Dormitory — Kahn

i KAHNnot BURN MAWR own dorm down because its made of Koncrete

St. Carlo alla Quattro Fontane — Borromini

CARLO, let me BORROw this QUArter and build a church with it

Denver Museum of Art — Libeskind

somebody ARTfully shanked me with this pointy museum and that wasn't very KIND

St. Andrea — Alberti

Andrea and Albert both start with an A

Schroeder House — Rietveld

dracula SHROd RIVET and VELD vis vodern vouse voogether

Centre de Pompideau — Piano + Rogers

ROGER that, turn the building inside out and play the PIANO while you're at it

Central Beheer Offices — Herman Hertzberger

liminal office hell, give me a BEER because this makes my head HERT

Sarabhai Residence — Le Corbusier

one corbuDAY i'd like to visit Sarabhai's house too

Kimball Art Museum — Kahn

Kachow! kunnels KAHN kake a kood KIMBALL(pinball) kachine

Modern Art Museum — Ando

the Y shapes looks like a helmet or something from ANDOr the tv show

Pyramids of Giza

duh

Stockholm Library — Asplund

you sure STOCK a lot of books here, Asplund

(vulgar — if this building was smaller, some freak would probably try to plunge it up their as)

New York Guggenheim — Wright

the WRIGHT way to build a NEW musuem

US Pavilion at Expo — Fuller

buckminister "i like balls" fuller

Dacca Capitol Buildings — Kahn

this capitol KAHN make it through a revolution

Zollverein School of Design — Sejima

lets just SEJI she zollverin' on my school till i design

Wat Arun and Thailand Royal Palace

WAT a RoUNd royal palace, it looks like a termite hill

Casa Mila — Gaudi

gaudi likes to MILAround in nature

TWA Terminal — Saarinen

i am SAARIN' (seeing) this flappy airplane building

Dipoli — Reima & Raili Pietila

couple of architects built a building that looks like a couple of rocks named after a couple of opposite magnetic charges

Bilbao Guggenheim — Gehry

"Gehry's fish fetish" — Larry Speck, September 17th, 2026

Disney Concert Hall — Gehry

all these metal slopes are making me GEHRY(very) DIZZY(disney

Phaeno Science Center — Hadid

Hadid HAD to use science to lift this science center off the ground

St. Ignatius Chapel — Holl

7 wHOLLe bottles of light IGNite this chapel

Jewish Museum — Libeskind

disturbing holocaust museum is not KIND to anyone

Museum of Contemporary Art of the XXI Century — Sejima

20th century has a 0 which is a circle like the shape of this museum

Ernsting Warehouse — Calatrava

calatrava ERNestly worked on his first project

Volantin Footbridge — Calatrava

legit the only bridge fam

Milwaukee Art Museum — Calatrava

another building like sails by calatrava; the big spar with wires means it's the art one

Athens Olympic Sports Complex — Calatrava

another sail-like building by calatrava! shocking! the ribs and stadium mean it's the olympics one

Austin City Plan by Edwin Waller

Savannah City Plan by James Oglethorpe

Designs for Chaux by Claude Ledoux

Houses by Peter Eisenman