Round 4: Tossup 20

The second edition of Sigfried Giedion’s Space, Time and Architecture shifts focus from Gropius and Corbusier to this architect and hails a medical building by him as “inseparably linked to the rise of contemporary architecture.” A patron of this architect refused to go in a house designed by him that unusually features a strip window above a fireplace. Ceramic “halla” tiles decorate a museum designed by this artist during his “white period.” Irregular columns (-5[1])wrapped (-5[1])in black appear in the living room of a house that this architect designed for the Gulichsen family. The Villa Mairea is by this architect, (-5[1])who also designed a chair (-5[1])intended to be used by sanatorium (10[2]-5[1])patients (10[1])suffering from (10[3])tuberculosis. (10[5]-5[1])For 10 points, name this architect who founded the furniture company Artek with his wife (-5[1])Aino (10[1]-5[2])and designed Finlandia Hall in his home country. ■END■ (10[4]0[5])

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