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A monthly contest from the editors of RECORD asks you to guess the architect for a work of historical importance.

Clue: This library (at left, above) and medical center (at right, above) represent one idiosyncratic strain of Metabolism, a postwar movement that imagined the metropolis of the future as a network of interlinked, gravity-defying structures. Located in the hometown of the architect who designed them, these two buildings helped launch a career that would culminate, decades later, with the Pritzker prize.

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Last month's answer: Fiat’s Lingotto Factory, located in Turin, Italy, was designed by the naval engineer-turned-designer Giacomo Matte-Trucco. The 16 million-squarefoot structure—the largest automotive factory in the world at the time of its completion in 1926—was cited by Le Corbusier in his Vers une architecture (1923) and became a symbol of Italian industrial prowess.

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