At first glance the DAAP building on the University Of Cincinnati campus is just an awkwardly placed, disorganized pile of off centered and tilted rectangles. To a certain degree, this is truthful, but also there is a complex history to the pastel colored building. The building began as an art school that would cater to the production arts, but after the Great Depression the perspective of art changed in many people. Jay Chatterjee became the dean of the program in 1982 and began to combine the works of Michael Graves, Bernard Tschumi, Henry Cobb to make this new and improved building. The most iconic side of the school was added in 1995 and named the Aronoff Center for Design and Art. Today, the DAAP building is an iconic building in the United States and is home to one of the best art programs in the nation.
The DAAP building has a really different look and shows that its now just a ordnery program
ReplyDeleteDAAP is very cool and I visited UC and got to go through DAAP and talk to a professor about communicative design and fine arts and it was very cool getting to know what they hold in that building.
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