4/14

4/14

We first stopped at the Education building on our tour today, which was kind of cool considering I'm Chemistry for secondary education. Walking there, we discovered that the education building was supposed to be a twin. It kind of makes sense that we wanted a second building back then; I think there was a bigger importance placed on k-12 education at the time (1964). Anyways, walking up to the building, it was noted that it looked like a temple (kind of like a temple of learning), and that the sidewalk gradated from coarse stones to finer stones. In addition to this, when you looked from in front of the education building, you saw that it was on axis with the archway by Wohlers, creating an axis. Going in, the ceilings looked like they were made from concrete, but they were actually steel with concrete poured on it. Looking at the sides of the walls was kind of cool. They had wooden slats to cover all the icky necessities such as air ducts and heaters and the like. We went upstairs onto the balcony as well (I didn't even know you could go on the balcony. Or that there even was a balcony), and we were able to see that the bottom of the building was significantly larger than the top of the building.

After visiting the Education Building, we headed over to the Krannert Art Museum. It has a "pregnant belly" that kind of invites people in from the field area. Walking inside we were able to view it from the other side, and we also noticed that the banister of the staircase had a design that looked like the museum on it. We just kind of wandered around the museum for awhile after that, and saw some interesting works of art.