Art & Design
Modernist Architecture Quiz
Less is more — Mies, Le Corbusier, Wright, and the International Style
Less is more — Mies, Le Corbusier, Wright, and the International Style
Modernist architecture's death is officially dated to July 15, 1972 at 3:32 PM — when Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex in St. Louis was demolished, signaling the end of the era. From Le Corbusier's pilotis to Mies van der Rohe's glass curtain walls, modernism reshaped the 20th century with steel, concrete, and the radical idea that form should follow function.
Each round presents 10 randomized questions from a pool of 50, with four multiple-choice options and instant feedback after every answer. Your final score comes with a performance tier and shareable results.
You'll explore Le Corbusier's 5 Points of Architecture, the Bauhaus school under Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building and Farnsworth House, Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, the Eames House and the Case Study Houses program, and how the demolition of Pruitt-Igoe came to symbolize the end of modernism.
"Form follows function" is a principle coined by American architect Louis Sullivan in 1896, asserting that a building's shape should be determined by its purpose rather than by ornament or historical style. It became a foundational creed of Modernist architecture.
Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater in 1937, perched dramatically over a waterfall at Bear Run in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. It is considered one of the greatest works of American architecture and a landmark of organic modernism.
The Bauhaus was a German art and design school founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919, later moving to Dessau and Berlin before being closed by the Nazis in 1933. It unified fine art, craft, and industrial design and shaped Modernist architecture worldwide.
Last updated: May 2026