A03 - Scavenger Hunt

For this assignment, we had to find certain designs on Campus with the given clues. It got us familiar with different designers, different designs, and more familiar with the others who had the same card as us - in this case Jay Mazzone was my partner, and we worked with the other queens Alyson M. and Sydni B. Thankfully enough we had a pretty good idea of what we were looking for, so we went on our way across campus and got the pictures of what was required.

#1. The Barcelona Chair



The Barcelona Chair was a creation of famous designer and architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - the same architect who designed the renowned Farnsworth House. This chair was an icon of modernism and was influenced by folding chairs from ancient times. It was first introduced in 1929 at the International Exposition in Barcelona.

#2. A Knowlton Chair



This chair was a Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) design. You can see the shapes that le Corb loved so much (squares) as Jay reads his designer magazine in the over-sized chair. The "Original LC2" is oversized, but the smallest model in the series of chairs that le Corb designed. They are very comfortable and are large enough where it's pretty universal for most people.

#3. A Peter Eisenman Design



Peter Eisenman is a world renowned architect, so the fact that one of his buildings is at the Ohio State University is amazing. His incorporation of the grid system he uses so much, with the 12.5 degrees of separation of the City of Columbus' grid system is absolutely phenomenal. He also included a design of the old Armory that used to sit where the Wexner Center of the Arts currently is.

Here is another picture of the turrets that Eisenman included with his design.



#4. A Philip Johnson Design



Two of the many buildings on Ohio State's campus are designed by Philip Johnson. Johnson is also a worldly architect with designs seen around the globe. As many times I passes the Science and Engineering library, I had never known, or would have never guessed that it was designed by Philip Johnson. I can't say I'm a fan of this particular library, or the Mathematics Towers. They're not as "exciting" as some of his other designs, however it does hold a trait that seems industrial like the PPG Place Building in Pittsburgh, which I find intuitive to mathematics.

#5. Acock & Associates Design



Although I have never heard of the Columbus-based architecture firm, I am quite familiar with one of their renovation projects; the Thompson Library. They completely renovated the old library, and it's evident when looking at the new facade and the book stacks. It's a great building and can be seen from almost anywhere on Campus, as it towers over the Oval.