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Located on the eastern edge of The Ohio State University’s campus, the Wexner Center was built to accommodate a multidisciplinary space for the exploration and exhibition of contemporary art.
WEXNER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS AND FINE ARTS LIBRARY. Location: Columbus, Ohio. Year: 1983-1989. The Ohio State University campus grew up in the nineteenth century around its first edifice, University Hall.
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The Center for the first public building designed by Wexner Arts Peter Eisenman, multidisciplario is an international laboratory for the exploration and development of contemporary art. Through exhibitions, screenings and performances by the resident artists and educational programs, the Wexner Center Atua as a forum where established and emerging ...
The Wexner Center for the Arts is located on the east side of the campus, at 871 North High Street and East 16th Avenue 1850, occupying 8.1 acres and nestled amidst the Mershon Auditorium and Weigel Hall in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
Eisenman wanted to leave the place’s history reflected integrating large brick structures, inspired by the old armory building burned in the late nineteenth century and were completely demolished in 1959.
Using figures juxtaposed, grids, and fragmented forms, the Wexner Center replaces its function as art house to become a work of art in itself, challenging our perceptions and thoughts. The project consisted of two phases. 1. Reconstruction of Arsenal that burned in 1948 on the same site. 2. Construction of the four main galleries of the center, adm...
The steel structure was covered with a skin of red masonry evoking the old building. The exterior includes a large white metal grid that suggests some kind of armor, which gives the building a sense of incompleteness. At the front and at the entrance, Eisenman rebuilt a tower of an old arsenal, then cut it and give an image of disorganization. The ...
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Tickets for most Wexner Center events are on sale at wexarts.org, the Visitor Desk on the entrance level of the Wexner Center, and the North High Street entrance of Mershon Auditorium. When purchasing tickets online, you can print them at home or hold them at the box office.
A place where the past is respected even as the future is in the making. And a place where local meets global, as symbolized in two distinctive vectors—one aligning to the main runway at Columbus’s John Glenn International Airport and the other to the storied and revered Ohio Stadium.
WEXNER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS AND FINE ARTS LIBRARY. OVERVIEW / PHOTOS ANS PLANS. Explore the architecture of the 20th century and its significant movements, styles, and architects. Learn about modernism, postmodernism, brutalism, Bauhaus, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and more.
May 16, 2022 · It is comprised of slices of brick-clad, towers and volumes that were designed to reference the medieval-style Armory, built in 1898, that previously sat on the site but had been torn down in...
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