February 23, 2007
Colleges Have Lost Interest in Designing Campuses With Meaning
The architecture of a university's campus is an open book that most of us have forgotten how to read. The ways that buildings relate to each other, and to the environment in which they are set, communicate meaning, character, and significance. Whether the campus is carefully planned or hastily assembled, costly or cheap, modest or bombastic, the information is there. In that sense, a campus is an edited statement of the institution's self-image, how it solves problems, and how it wishes to
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