Assignment 3

Clue 01- Barcelona Chair 

This is the Barcelona Chair in the KSA library. The chair was designed by Mies van der Rohe for the German Pavilion that was designed for the Barcelona International Exposition (which is how the chair gets its name.) I like the simplicity and elegance of this chair and as you can see, it may look small but it definitely is very comfortable and roomy! 

Clue 02 - Cross Check Chair

 The picture to the left shows Miriah on the Cross Check Chair reading the Design Solutions magazine. This chair which is located in the KSA library was designed by Frank Gehry. The bent wood material and fluid design is representative of his design style and shows his interest in using relatively inexpensive industrial materials to create his designs. I wrote about Gehry for Assignment 02, so it was interesting to find the chair I posted on my blog last week in the KSA library. To see Miriah read Design Solutions on her own blog, Click Here.

Clue 3 - The Wexner Center

This is a picture of Jocef testing the limits of Peter Eisenman's design for the Wexner Center. The Wexner Center was designed to fit between two existing buildings and is a deconstructive design based on a grid that Eisenman created of the city's street layout (you can see the grid in this photo). Though it is a well-designed structure by Eisenman, it began to leak in a few corners a couple of years ago and had to be renovated. The Galleries in the Wexner Center are also very interesting. To see Jocef comment on his own experiment with the Wexner Center, Click Here.

Clue 04 - The Math Building

This photo of the Math Building designed by Philip Johnson shows the geometric details of its design which speak to the postmodern aesthetics of his design. Johnson was from Cleveland and graduated from Harvard. His designs for the Math building and the SEL library are great additions to the OSU campus. 

Clue 05 - Main Library

Acock and Associates were responsible for the design and renovation of the Main Library on the OSU Campus. The beautiful new design eliminated the secondary wings that had been added to the original design due to various additions throughout the years and unified the building to its original shape. Also, the new open look of the library is designed to accommodate studying and research rather than housing books and shelves. This is representative of the changes in the concept of a library as a place to gather information rather than to house information (the library now houses half the number of books that it did prior to the renovation but has more "technology rooms" and study rooms for the students). However, this photo shows the statue that is centrally located in front of the original section of the library and greets all the visitors.