Arts Building West, University of Iowa The School of Art and Art History at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Holl, Steven Studios (work spaces) Art education Art galleries academic libraries architecture The Art and Art History building includes facilities for sculpture, painting, printmaking, graduate studios, administrative offices, gallery and a library. Physically, the building is made up of flat and curved steel plates slotted together or assembled with hinged sections. Metal sheets gain in strength when folded, while using a mimimum amount of material. The rust red colour of the oxidised steel plate alludes to the red brick of the art department's original building (built in 1937) and the new block's low-slung, landscape-hugging profile also recalls the form of its predecessor University of Iowa HLKB Architects 2006 Images Digital Jpeg2000 School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa, USA University of Iowa
Arts Building West, University of Iowa
The School of Art and Art History at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Holl, Steven
Studios (work spaces)
Art education
Art galleries
academic libraries
architecture
The Art and Art History building includes facilities for sculpture, painting, printmaking, graduate studios, administrative offices, gallery and a library. Physically, the building is made up of flat and curved steel plates slotted together or assembled with hinged sections. Metal sheets gain in strength when folded, while using a mimimum amount of material. The rust red colour of the oxidised steel plate alludes to the red brick of the art department's original building (built in 1937) and the new block's low-slung, landscape-hugging profile also recalls the form of its predecessor
University of Iowa
HLKB Architects
2006
Images
Digital
Jpeg2000
School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
University of Iowa