Team members:
Bumble_Be http://dsgn200bmblb.blogspot.com/
Rachel_T http://racheltdsgn200.blogspot.com/
Bumble and Rachel are my team members for Scavenger hunt. While, when we get this assignment, we scanned through it and decided to go to the Wexner Center first, cause Rachel and Bumble are pretty sure that he Fine Art museum has the Barcelona Chair. We decided to use Be's phone to take all the picture, and then, she will send to picture to use by her phone. Later we found the computer and did our research on each clue. Rachel checked clue 2, Be checked clue 3, and I checked clue 5 online. I already knew where is the KSA library, and we already found the clue 1, so we didn't do research on the first two clues. After research, we went out and take the picture of the Wexner Center first, which is clue 3. And then We went to Thompson library (clue 5), science and engineering library (clue 4), the last one we went to is the KSA library.
Clue 01:There are several places on OSU campus where you can find the Barcelona Chair. Take a picture of one of your team members sitting in the chair, but still compose a good picture showing both you and the chair. Also note the name of the designer and something interesting about the chair or the designer in your comments.
Mies can der Rohe is a famous modern architect. He designed the Farnsworth House, and Seagram building, and two buildings of the Museum of Fine Art, and so on.
Besides architecture, Mies also designed modern furniture. The Barcelona Chair is one of his famous piece. I think the interesting part of this chair is that this chair is designed to fit in an architecture, which is German Pavilion. The idea of this chair came from the folding chair in the ancient time.
Clue 03:Take a photo of one of your team members in front of a building on campus that was designed by Peter Eisenman. In the comments, tell me something interesting or controversial about the construction of the building on campus.
The Wexner Center is Peter Eisenman first project in the U.S.A. He was a teacher and theorist. The interesting part of this building is its angle. Since the grid that form the campus and the columbus city has 12.25 degrees various, Eisenman use the Wexner Center combined them together. The Wexner Center fulfilled both the grid in Columbus and also the OSU.
I will post a picture of the grid below:
As you can see, in my second picture of the Wexner center, there is a brake building, which is the front of the Wexner Center. The precedent of this building is an old armory. It demolished by fire in 1958. Peter use deconstructive method recreate the armory and add modern elements into the building.
Clue 05:Take a photo of one of your team members in front of a building on campus that was designed by local architects Acock & Associates. In the comments, tell me something interesting or controversial about the construction of the building on campus.
This building is the Thompson Library. It is an icon and one of the most important building on campus. This library was named for the university's fifth president, who served from 1899 to 1925. The renovation involved 11 years of planning and 27 months of construction, requiring 569,799 man-hours. It cost 108.7 million dollar for the renovation.There are two skylights buildings in the architecture, each them consists of 120 pieces of 50-by-96-inch laminated glass.Motorized window shades are raised and lowered based on the position of the sun and clouds and the time of day. This reduces energy consumption and glare and provides automated control.
Clue 04:A famous architect by the name of Philip Johnson designed the Sony (originally AT&T) skyscraper in New York City which is a great example of post modernism. He’s also responsible for two buildings on the Ohio State campus. Find one a get a picture of both the building and an architectural detail that you find interesting.
Philip Johnson designed the mathematic tower and the science and engineering library at OSU. I think the interesting part of the building is the use of the arch and the ribbon window. the appearance of the architecture looks like the fancy church in the Europe. There are also three layer of window in the architecture.
Clue 02:Find the Knowlton School of Architecture’s Library and explore the space noting the various chairs from design’s history. Pick a chair that you find interesting (not the Barcelona chair) and compose a picture of you in the chair reading a design-related magazine. In the comments, tell me who the designer is, something about the chair, and what magazine you are reading.
This chiar is the Red and Blue Chair, which is designed by Gerrit Reitveld in 1918. The magazine that I was reading called Dewell.
The Red and Blue Chair represents one of the first explorations by the De Stijl art movement in three dimensions. It is interesting that the original chair is pained in Black, Gray and White. The Museum of Modern Art put this chair in its permanent collections. Rietveld manipulated rectilinear volumes and examined the interaction of vertical and horizontal planes, much as he did in his architecture. Well, to tell the truth, it is not very comfortable to sit on this chair. However, the unique pattern of this chair is very interesting, and easy to get attention of others.
As for the Dewell magazine, I saw a lot of chairs in the KSA library that is on the magazine. And the magazine also introduce many modern architecture and the interior design.
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