The Modernist Falls Victim to Changes in Taste

This summer Princeton University will raze five Modernist dormitories by the architect Hugh Stubbins to make room for buildings that today's students are likely to find easier on the eye.

The complex — Lourie-Love, 1922, 1940, 1941, and 1942 Halls — was built in 1964 and forms the bulk of Butler College, one of the university's five residential colleges. With their staggered heights and concrete casements, the structures were intended as a modern interpretation of

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