Wexner Center

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cid_1022734317_WexnerCenterNECorner.150.jpg Wexner Center
Designer Peter Eisenman , FAIA
Location Columbus, United States
Date 1983 to 1989
Building Type University arts center
Construction System steel, concrete, glass
Climate temperate
Context university campus
Architectural Style Deconstructivist Modern
Street Address 1871 N High St
Notes Purposeful collision of shifted grids. Peter Eisenman with Richard Trott et al.
At Great Buildings http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Wexner_Center.html

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  • Douglas Davis. The Museum Transformed: Design and Culture in the Post-Pompidou Age. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1990. ISBN 1-55859-064-1. LC 89-18227. NA6695.D38 1990. exterior aerial photo, p205, plate 174. exterior photo of entry, p206, plate 175.
  • Peter Eisenman. "The Grid and the Grain", The Architectural Review, June 1990. Color photo of interior of arcade, f12, p85. color photo of rehabilitated armoury towers, f3, p80. color photo of exterior, f2, p80.
  • Peter Eisenman, Arie Graafland, ed. Peter Eisenman: Recent Projects. Amsterdam: SUN, 1989. NA737.E33P47 1989. ISBN 90-6168-316-5. p63.
  • Peter Noever, ed. Architecture in Transition: Between Deconstruction and New Modernism. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1991. NA682.D43A73 1991. ISBN 3-7913-1136-0. p39.
  • Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.

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