July 11, 2003

Forget Classrooms. How Big Is the Atrium in the New Student Center?

By MICHAEL J. LEWIS

Has any American college not yet built a new student center? If so, it is probably interviewing architects at this moment. All across the country, from Bowdoin to Pomona, colleges are scrambling to renovate, expand, or replace aging student unions, with their battered billiard tables and subterranean TV lounges. So great is the demand that one Pittsburgh-based firm, WTW Architects, has designed more than 30 in the past few years. The student-center craze is upon us, and not even the stormy

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