The Objective: Explore the hidden designs both around campus and those in plain view.
The Materials: We used my digital camera for this project, and I transferred them to her laptop via flash drive.
The Tough Part: Together the two of us brainstormed the best possible ways to complete the tasks, how our composition should look (the creative mojo behind adding life to the pictures), and we both took pictures for one another at each of the checkpoints. Mutually we researched clues 3-5 having started our journey at Knowlton's Architecture Library taken from Clue 2, as well as Julia's knowledge (from class) of the Barcelona Chairs' location, I found the name of the chair at knowlton.osu.edu/files/vitualtour/tourchairs2.pdf. Next we travelled to Clue 4 at the SEL, followed by Clue 5 at the Thompson Library, and finishing our adventure at Clue 3 The Wexner.
Clue #1
Barcelona Chair, Knowlton Architecture Library.
Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
The Barcelona Chair is the only exception to the Bauhaus Design School's creed to design for the "common man" as it was designed for the Royalty of Spain.
Clue #2
The Paimio Armchair 41 Chair, Knowlton Architecture Library.
Designed by Alvar Aalto.
The Paimio's design was inspired by Marcel Breuer's famous Wassily Chair.
I'm reading Dwell Magazine, devoted to the modernistic design and utility in the home.
Clue #3
The Wexner Center for the Arts.
Designed by Peter Eisenman.
The scaffolding, typically a temporary aspect in buildings, and prominent part of the Wexner, was added specifically as a non-building, to accentuate the lack of shelter, for a shelter of art works.
Clue #4
Science and Engineering Library.
Designed by Philip Johnson.
The symmetry and arches of the SEL are the most interesting detail, especially when you take in account it's brother building also designed by Johnson, the Mathematics Tower, which both go to display the mathematic classes and fields that both of these buildings contain.
Clue #5
The Thompson Library.
Designed by Acock & Associates.
It's initial building was in 1910, the final stages of renovation and additions (3 total stages) was completed approximately 99 years following it's ground breaking ceremony.
"Art: Architects' Furniture." Time Magazine 18 Feb 1957: n. pag. Web. 26 Jan 2011. <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,809146,00.html>.
"Paimio Armchair 41." Hivemodern. Hive, 2011. Web. 26 Jan 2011. <http://hivemodern.com/pages/products.php?view=sub_product&sid=3313&cid=>.
"Wexner Center - Peter Eisenman." Great Buildings. Artifice Inc., 2010. Web. 26 Jan 2011. <http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Wexner_Center.html>.
"Mathematics Tower and Science Library." Galinsky. Galinsky, 2006. Web. 26 Jan 2011. <http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/ohiomath/index.htm>.
"Thompson Memorial Library ." Herrick Archives Number 050 05/Jan/2009. n. pag. John H. Herrick Archives. Web. 26 Jan 2011. <http://herrick.knowlton.ohio-state.edu/building/thompson-memorial-library>.
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