"A03:" I Would Walk 500 Miles

Todays title comes to you from The Proclaimers. Kinda a one hit wonder, but it was a very catchy song. Now, for a quick view into our "elaborate" process and planning. Originally, there were only three 10's, but the fourth one was given out to a fellow classmate and thus, joined with our merry band. We decided to google the names of the designers, matching names with achievements. From there, it was a quick discussion on the order to hit the stops. We begin with the Wexner, and tried to make as few stops as quickly as possible. Known accomplises include Bridget and Dan. She was the photographer for me and Dan was witnessed in a couple of my shots. Links are as follows:

http://bridgetmears.blogspot.com/
http://dancsp11.blogspot.com/

Clue Number 1)

So the first clue is looking for the famous Barcelona Chair. Here sits Dan, striking a thinking pose, and myself, taking a nap. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was the designer and for an interesting fact, the chair was made with the intent to be shown off at an international exposition representing Germanys contribution. Fun fact.

Clue Number 2)

In hindsight, this wasn't the best view of the chair to prove we visited Knowlton. But, I promise, this was taken inside of the library there. And the chair in which I am sitting is the Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld. Interesting fact about that guy? He got involved with architecture as well and designed the Rietveld Schroder House. Oh, and I guess I should mention a bit about the book/picture. Heh, I made that specific face because the design article I picked out was completely done in Spanish.

Clue Number 3)

Here, we have the Wexner Center's lovely corridor of lights, with a very distant/tiny me treating it as a casual leaning post. For the interesting fact, this building was designed to smooth the different angle of the city's grid layout with OSU's. It actually does an excellent job of this.

Clue Number 4)

Philip Johnson was the man who designed the math and science library. And this particular building was designed in a manner in which the arches show the front with one arch in particular being much larger and more defined than the others. This is done on purpose, as if to becon people to that specific entrance. In the picture it is denoted by the lack of windows directly above it and the off colored pattern when compared to the brick around it.

Clue Number 5)

And here, we have the Thompson Library, done by Acock and Associates. This photo was taken to capture Mr. William Thompson himself as well as the main library on campus. The architecture has quite a modern feel to it and the inside offers an astounding view over the oval and the surrounding areas.