The AronoffCenter falls in place at a specific point in Eisenman's study of university campuses: reaction to its unexpected appearance was different from what it would have been a few years earlier.
The AronoffCenter not only reproduces the form of the adjacent building and multiplies its broken profile, but is a curvaceous structure contrasting with the linearity of its neighbour.
The AronoffCenter is the result of a combination of different concepts: the concept of the palimpsest, oscillation and vibration, applied simultaneously to the new building and to the previously existing one.
The AronoffCenter, like the many other new urban art centers across America, was built to house large-scale Broadway touring companies and spur downtown development.
As an arts center with an artistic mission that includes cultural programming and educational outreach, determining its overall impact becomes more difficult - although CAA outreach education programs on the arts affect 76,000 children and adults annually at the Aronoff as well as at schools.
For the AronoffCenter, it would prove to be the first taste of direct competition for similar audiences.
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