Clue 1: The first clue included the Barcelona Chair. The Barcelona Chair can be found in various buildings on campus. The place we found ours was in the Fine Arts Library. The Barcelona was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1929. The chair actually won an award in 1977 of the Museum of Modern Art Award.
Clue 2: In the Knowlton School of Architecture’s Library there are so many interesting chairs to choose from but we chose the Red and Blue chair. The name of the chair is literally the Red and Blue Chair. It was designed in 1917 by Gerrit Rietveld. The chair in located in the library portion of Knowlton.The magazine we chose to "read" is called the Wallpaper Magazine. It actually is a interesting section of reading. It features art, architecture, design, fashion, lifestyle, technology and cars.
The two buildings were actually designed in inspiration (in small amount) of Eisenman's Wexler Center. In each of the two buildings, Johnson creates interesting patterns and elegant use of materials (brick) within what is easily known as an educational structure.
Clue 5: This clue included the Thompson Library. This is Ohio States main and largest library on campus. The building was actually constructed in 3 different phases. The original building, which was a Second Italian Renaissance Revival Style Structure opened in 1913. Then renovated in 1951, which added 14 level stacks tower with wings and added pavilions, then finally completed in 1977.
I did a little more research on all of the clues and seeing how I did not know much about any of the clues or designers, I went online to help with my descriptions.
Works Cited
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