May 16, 2010
Campus Architecture by Consensus?
Bruce Kluckhohn for The Chronicle Review
A mannequin in Steven Orfield's testing facility, in Minneapolis, is used to measure acoustical properties in architectural and other designs.
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Bruce Kluckhohn for The Chronicle Review
A mannequin in Steven Orfield's testing facility, in Minneapolis, is used to measure acoustical properties in architectural and other designs.
Minneapolis
How many college administrators have gone to a ribbon-cutting ceremony with the nagging, sinking feeling that they had just spent millions on a building that nobody liked? What if, long before a golden shovel pierced the ground, campus architects and planners had a procedure in place to avoid such a fate?
Steven Orfield not only believes that such a procedure is possible but says he has devised it—a method that might strike people as radical, necessary, nonsensical, or even
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