Speedcubing are also different shapes of the famous puzzles, including Pyraminx, Megaminx, Skewb, and Square-1. The Rubik's Cube was invented in 1974 by Hungarian professor of architecture, Ernő Rubik. A widespread international interest in the cube began in 1980, which soon developed into a global craze. On June 5, 1982, the first world championship was held in Budapest, Hungary. 19 people competed in the event and the American Minh Thai won with a single solve time of 22.95 seconds. Other notable attendees include Jessica Fridrich and Lars Petrus, two people who would later be influential in the development of solving methods
Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture, wanted to begin by taking architectural drafting at Harvard but was refused entry because the school did not admit women. Brooks consulted with the school's head, James Sturgis Pray, who then arranged for architectural design professor Henry Atherton Frost to tutor Brooks privately. Somewhat to his surprise, Frost found his unexpected pupil an adept and enthusiastic student, and in an account of the school's founding he wrote: "Teaching a woman what we had always considered strictly a man's job was not the painful ordeal it had promised to be." Within a year, Frost