October 31, 2008

Landmark Buildings Redefine 2-Year Campuses and Blot Out Ugly Mistakes

By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER

Architects are significantly more likely than most people to be fans of Modernism, whether it be the glass-and-steel simplicity of Mies van der Rohe or the bulky concrete Brutalism of some of his successors. But even among architects, the community-college buildings of the 1960s and 70s have a reputation for being third-rate examples of a style that only a handful of first-rate architects really mastered. Unfortunately — at least from a design point of view — hundreds of

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