April 28, 2006

What the 'Bilbao Effect' Can Do to, and for, a Campus

By M. DAVID SAMSON

Ohio State University is celebrating the reopening of its 1989 Wexner Center for the Arts after renovations that cost more than $15-million. The building, designed by Peter Eisenman, had required what university officials called an "extreme makeover" to correct situations like the daily 40-degree temperature swings in its leaky glass arcade. Fans of the structure proclaim the importance of its architect as a "metaphysician" of architectural theory and a leader of the attack on architecture as

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