Peter Eisenman designed the Wexner Arts Centre for Ohio State University, completed in 1989. Laurie Olin designed the landscaping.
The city and university meet at the site with a 12 degree misalignment of their street grid arrangements. Added to these grids is the yet dissimilar scaffolding arrangement of white metal that suggests incompleteness. The Deconstructivist forms clash and intersect each other, boxes of black glass, white frames of steel, soft castle-like brick, splintering and break through each other. Taking a cue from early Modernist works, Eisenman gave it a blatantly Post-modernist spin with visual symbolism and non-functional play. This architecture is not about shelter, it is strictly about artistic presentation.
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