The Barcelona chair was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The Barcelona chair was said to be derived from his interpretation of an Egyptian royal folding chair and a Roman folding footstool, and was intended to be thrones for the visiting royals.
The Rocking chair was created by Charles and Ray Eams. On fact is that the brothers’ got the idea from an experiment with new methods of bending plywood in the work they did for the navy wartime effort. The magazine is Urbanistica.
Peter Wisenman designed the Wexner Center, his first public building designed. An interesting fact is that parts of the movie Little man Tate with Jodi Foster was filmed there. Also, the white metal girders represent the street layout of OSU and the City of Columbus.
Philip Johnson built two buildings on campus, one of which is the Math Tower. One architectural detail that my group found interesting was the doorway which does not have the arch design that the rest of the building has.
Thompson Library has been renovated three times. Controversy involved a $109-million renovation that included the removal of the old stack tower in favor of glass.
For the hunting down design assignment, I worked together with Mike & Mike. That is just so fun to say. We stayed in class the first few minutes and briefly looked over the clues and found answers to them. After we found the answers, we went to the five destinations in order to get the pictures.
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