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Like all of Eisenman's work, the Wexner Center is an obsessive meditation on the grid, modernism's elemental unit. For starters, Eisenman has lined up the building with the Columbus city grid rather than the campus grid -- an off- kilter tilt of 12 1/4 degrees. Within the complex, he...
What is the point of all this highly wrought architectural scribbling and juxtapositioning? Why, in a single glimpse, is there brick, tinted glass, clear glass, white glass, white metal panels, white steel, white stone, concrete and red stone? Because to pull off such an improbable collage is a virtuoso feat...
Now that postmodernism has abandoned its original sense of humor in favor of just-so classicism, it is Eisenman who is left to build in the architectural jokes: the disintegrating ersatz archway and cartoony castellated brick towers around the perimeter of Wexner (alluding to an old armory on the site...
What is it about this architectural atrocity that confounds Bill Cleary's skaters? Yale, seventh in the ECAC last season, doesn't belong on the same rink as the national champs, so it must be something weird, right?
As a result of the earthquake, the Cambridge architectural firm of Lazano, White & Associates will help design shock-proof building for Yerevan. Other potential areas of trade which the delegation plans to explore range from souvenir shops to advanced biotechnology, said Cambridge Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf.