Round 20: Tossup 9
In Scandinavia, churches in this form include Ove Bang’s Bakkehaugen Church and Jan Inge Hovig’s Arctic Cathedral. Japanese gasshō-zukuri buildings inspired Antonin Raymond designs in this form, including for the Holy Cross Anglican Church in Tokyo. In the US, building kits for houses in this form were popularized after Rudolph Schindler’s Bennati House and Andrew Geller’s Reese House were featured in the New York Times. This architectural form shares its name with the type of load-bearing structure that supports Ferris wheels and appears twice in sawhorses. Vacation homes in this style disallow wall hangings because of steeply angled interior walls attached to a central singular roof beam. For 10 points, what style of building in which the roof gables extend all the way to the ground is named for its cross-section resembling a letter? ■END■
ANSWER: A-frame buildings [or A-frame houses or A-frames; prompt on triangular cross-section or triangle by asking “what is the architectural term for buildings with that cross-section?”]
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