International Style houses favored flat roofs and plain, asymmetrical boxes. Which visible choice on the Vanna Venturi House facade most clearly breaks with that practice?

A granite tower ends in a large notched crown, rejecting the smooth, flat-topped glass box. Which movement does it belong to?

The Piazza d'Italia combines a fountain shaped like Italy with colorful, stylized colonnades. What Postmodern strategy is most visible?

At Stuttgart's Neue Staatsgalerie, a colonnade and circular court appear beside brightly colored industrial details. What does this mixture signal?

This Santa Monica house wraps an ordinary bungalow in tilted forms, corrugated metal, plywood, and chain-link fencing. Which architect remodeled it as his own home?

A building face carries oversized painted ornament as a message, rather than expressing its structural grid. Which movement does this approach belong to?

Johnson and Burgee capped the AT&T headquarters with a colossal broken pediment. What is the best term for borrowing this recognizable past form in a new building?

Why does a Postmodern skyscraper quote one recognizable historical motif instead of reconstructing an entire classical order system?

The Portland Building displays an oversized keystone shape above its entry, although it does not support an arch. What is that shape doing?

Piazza d'Italia's Italy-shaped fountain and stylized classical elements chiefly address whom?

This striped stone wall is at Stirling's Neue Staatsgalerie. Elsewhere on the site he left a few blocks lying on the lawn as if they had fallen out of the wall. What does this joke reveal?

In Learning from Las Vegas, a roadside restaurant built in the shape of a giant hot dog is classified as what?

In Learning from Las Vegas, an ordinary rectangular shop whose large sign announces its business is what?

Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966) challenged the strict Modernist rules of its day. Which design attitude does the book promote?

Venturi's phrase “less is a bore” answers Mies van der Rohe's “less is more.” What does Venturi's revision favor?

Charles Moore's Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans has a fountain map of Italy with Sicily at the center of the plaza. Why did Moore put Sicily at the center?

The Portland Building was built as administrative offices for the City of Portland. How does that civic role help explain its emphatic facade?

Why did Venturi and Scott Brown study roadside signs and commercial buildings in Las Vegas?

What title did MoMA give its 1988 exhibition of architects whose projects often tilt, shear, and collide their parts?

Which architect was represented in MoMA's 1988 Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition?

The Gehry Residence leaves an older bungalow visible while new angled additions press around it. Compared with International Style unity, what is the key change?

A proposal deliberately fractures a building into tilted, colliding volumes rather than composing a calm whole. Which later tendency does this describe?

The Portland Building uses large painted color fields, garlands, and geometric signs across its outer walls. What is the facade emphasizing?

Compared with a bronze-and-glass International Style tower, the AT&T headquarters uses pinkish-gray granite and a broken pediment. What contrast is most important?

At the Gehry Residence, corrugated aluminum, unfinished plywood, and chain-link fencing wrap and interrupt the original house. What does this material treatment reject?