found it

 Clue 01
The Barcelona Chair was originally designed by Mies van der Rohe. The trademark rights are currently owned by a company called Knoll, but there are many knock-offs of the chair which have caused them considerable legal trouble over the years.

Clue 02
This is the Coconut Chair, designed in 1956 by George Nelson. Nelson's intent was to design a chair that could accommodate any possible seating position. Here I'm reading L'Arca Magazine.

Clue 03

Controversial Design: Eisenman has been critiqued for his design due to the fact that after just 10 years the Wexner Center required a 10 million dollar renovation. 

 Clue 04

Philip Johnson's design of the Science and Engineering Library is about as boring as... well science and engineering. I do kinda like the big arches though.

Clue 05

Fun Fact: Thompson Library's latest addition was designed by Acock and Associates, but they chose to restore the original East facade (designed in 1910) rather than designing a new one.

How we did it:

Our method was pretty simple; I already knew the first three due to the fact that I spend so much time in Knowlton and had to take an architecture history course my first year, and we just googled the other two. Carl  provided the computer, while Telina organized the info and, as the person who's spent the most time on campus, I helped us get around as efficiently as possible. We took turns taking photos and ended up doing the research individually.

Week 4

The first thing that I absolutely must say about this week is this; landscape architects (NOT architects) figure out curb cuts. Also, landscape archs design the ramps that get you to the building. Sometimes architects do, but usually not well (see: example in the lecture). Aside from that, I thought the ADA lecture was pretty interesting. We deal with ADA restrictions all the time in landscape arch, but until now, I was unaware of how ADA plays a part in other design fields. I think that universal design is a really great concept. I hate seeing places and things that were clearly not designed to be universal that were later adapted to fit the needs of disabled individuals. It seems a bit irresponsible to be a designer without thinking about the needs of every possible user and figuring out how to accommodate them. Granted, this is rarely easy and sometimes impossible. For example, no one will ever design a bicycle for paraplegics. As far as the scavenger hunt, it was interesting to learn about some of the buildings on campus. I grew up in Clintonville and spent a lot of time on campus in high school, so I'm already familiar with how to get around, which definitely made things easier. Also, I spend a lot of time in Knowlton, which made a couple of the clues really easy.

Five Faces

 Front yard tree 1

 Front yard tree 2 (same tree)

 Mr Clean

 Big mouth sink (kinda looks like a muppet)

Silly (and a bit creepy) smile

Identities and systems

Overall, I found these chapters much more interesting than previous ones. I thought it was interesting that Japan has the highest rate of plastic surgery in the world. I saw a video on Vice Magazine's website a while ago about "donut heads," people who inject saline into their foreheads. In the video, they said that this practice is becoming pretty common in Japan. Not to sound xenophobic, but there's something odd to me about putting saline in your head. Also, I recently heard that women in a lot of Asian countries wear pupil enhancing contacts. I think the fact that people go to such lengths to present themselves a certain way is very telling of the importance of identity, whether for individuals or corporations. The point about how people reacted to the new British telephones was interesting too. In Banksy's documentary, Exit Through the Giftshop, one of the pieces shown is an old style British phone booth that's been modified to look like it's been chopped in half by a pick axe. I didn't really understand the point of that piece until reading about the negative attitude people had about the new phone booths. Near the end of the chapter, Heskett made a point ab out how quality of service is still important, regardless of identity. Right after this, he used FedEx as an example. I thought that was kind of funny, given that FedEx, while more innovative in the past, is really not a great company compared to, say, UPS. A friend of mine once saw a FedEx semi plow right into the side of building, and while it might seem like an isolated incident, it's really surprising how often FedEx drivers screw up. They don't have as strict of qualifications for their drivers, and they actually get into accidents pretty often. Also, I don't understand how having one headquarters in Memphis doesn't limit their efficiency. The systems chapter immediately made me think about infrastructure, which is what we're dealing with in my current landscape arch studio. I've been getting more and more interested in infrastructure over the past year and I think it's one of the few things that relates to both my major and my minor. The last paragraph of the chapter was the most interesting to me. Heskett seems to be under the impression that designers don't deal with reconciling natural and artificial systems. Maybe a lot has changed since 2002, but reconciling these systems is probably the largest, most important focus of landscape architecture. I get the impression that a lot of designers are unaware of what landscape architects do, and I think it's kind of a shame, because we focus so much on eco-friendly design and other fields could learn more from ours.