Centennial chromograph is an installation designed to represent a 100-year history of the University of Minnesota School of Architecture. Plywood and colored pencils where the only required materials needed for its construction. In doing so a total number of 100 plywood ribs and 8,080 colored pencils was needed.
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The colors of the pencils are used to represent how the university degree programs have been developing over the years.
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As Architecture is one of the most common among the subjects, as it is represent by the red pencils, this shows that presence as how it dwarfs the other courses. The duration of each bulge represents a different head of school, and the period in which they held that position.
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