1. The Barcelona Chair - Mies van der Rohe - 1929
The Barcelona Chair was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1929 for the Barcelona International Exposition. Mies designed the chair for the Spanish Royalty to sit in during the opening ceremonies for the exposition, and based the design on Roman folding chairs.
2. The Eames Rocker - 1948
The Eames Rocker was designed by Charles and Ray Eames. It was molded out of a single piece of fiberglass re-enforced plastic with metal legs and maple rockers. The chair is sold by Herman Miller. The magazine Mike is reading is an Italian Architectural Magazine called Urbanistica.
3. The Wexner Center
The Wexner Center for the arts was designed by Peter Eisenman and opened in 1989. The building was the first ever commercial project by Eisenman. The building's angles are a reflection of the differences in layout of the city streets of Columbus compared to the layout of the streets on campus which are different by 12.25 degrees. Parts of the movie Little Man Tate staring Jodi Foster were filmed at the Wexner Center.
4. The Math Tower
The Math Tower was one of two buildings designed by Philip Johnson and opened in 1993. An interesting aspect of this building is Johnson's use of huge curving arches in the design. But even more interesting is the doorway (pictured above) and the Juxtaposition of the triangular arrow next to the curving arch.
5. The William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library
The Main Library on Campus was renovated in 2006 and reopened in 2009. The renovation of which Acock & Associates worked on, cost $109 million dollars. Upgrades included technical upgrades. According a Columbus Dispatch article dated August 3, 2009 some librarians wanted to do away with the book stack towers but then president Karen Holbrook decided to save them for symbolic value.
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