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February 27, 2008, 09:24 AM ET
At Princeton and Maybe Yale, 'Traditional Architecture Works Better Than Modernist Architecture'
Princeton’s Whitman College: A Model for Yale? (Chronicle photograph)
A lengthy article in the Yale Daily News takes a look at recent building at Princeton University to get a sense of the kinds of buildings that might be constructed for two new residential colleges at Yale. Yale has a history of following Princeton, writes the Daily News architecture reporter, Paul Needham, who predicts that the buildings will be similar to Princeton’s Whitman College, designed by Demetri Porphyrios. Of course, there will be differences, Mr. Needham says: The buildings will be clad in brick instead of stone and look “distinctly Yale.”
Princeton’s return to Collegiate Gothic for Whitman was driven in part by an architecture critic and Princeton alumnus, Catesby Leigh, who criticized Modernist architecture on campuses in a 1999 alumni-magazine article. “Everyone — aside from most architects — is just coming around to the fact that traditional architecture works better than Modernist architecture,” he told the Yale paper recently.
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