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Architecture Urban Legends History

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Here are quick descriptions of each of the previous editions of Architecture Urban Legends Revealed.

To see if they are true or false, you have to click on the link!

1. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was originally designed as a school project at Yale!

2. Architects William Van Alen and H. Craig Severance engaged in a cloak and dagger race to see whose skyscraper would be the tallest in the world.

3. The campus at the University at Albany in New York was originally designed to be used in Arizona.

4. There is a law in Washington D.C. that states that no building be as tall as the Washington Monument.

5. A California woman had a house constructed entirely out of a recycled Boeing 747 airplane!

6. Frank Lloyd Wright used massive amount of college student urine to treat the copper in his buildings at Florida Southern College.

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