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Rise in Tornadoes, Floods Poses Risk to Colleges
What if the sort of extreme weather that has left the University of Iowa inundated in floodwaters is not a freak event? What if it is a sign of things to come? (Photograph by AP Images)
Art & Architecture Renovations Near Completion at Yale U.
Paul Rudolph's 1963 Brutalist icon is getting a makeover, plus an addition by Charles Gwathmey.
Guest Blogger: Anne Stephenson
Even the greenest construction project increases a college’s carbon footprint.
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Land-Rich Universities Weigh New Options for Real-Estate Development
Universities are taking advantage of new ways to develop their holdings through corporate partnerships, a new report says.
U. of Iowa Begins Mucking Out and Assessing the Damage
The university's insurer spent the weekend starting to assess the damage to the auditorium and 19 other flooded buildings.
U. of Iowa Flooding Takes Costly Toll in Research and Equipment
Parking lots are under water, some roads leading to the campus are closed, and the campus utility infrastructure is damaged.
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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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Modern architecture looks great until the morning.
— marci Feb 27, 04:34 PM #
Are we to create disney land like campuses of artificiall historic buildings to create a sense of place? If so, not ony has modern architecture failed us but so has modern higher education. Reverting to historicist styles seems to suggest that new, progressive, innovative ideas have no place on a college campus. Instead, we must look back to models from the past for the inspiration for our most forward thinking institutions. Very sad…
— Higher Ed Administrator Feb 27, 05:21 PM #
Its obscene what Princeton spent on that residence hall if the numbers reported in the media are true. Princeton could have funded 100s of scholarships for financially needy students with the money spent on that building. After touring the building, I walked away thinking not only was it a huge waste of money but it is not even attractive or authentic looking collegiate gothic. This building just adds to the argument that we should consider revoking the tax exempt status of some of these super wealthy institutions since they abuse it by purchasing gaudy baubles for their campuses.
— dc Feb 27, 05:33 PM #
As a Yale student I can tell you that there is something wonderful about the classical gothic style of much of campus. The new “modern” buildings are really the result of hyped up intellectual garbage that produces buildings that simply do not look good. I would further add that Princeton built its college so that they could accept more students—a noble goal by all standards. However, to house those students in cheap boxes justified by pseudo-intellectual garbage is to do a disservice to the traditions of American Higher Education.
— mike at yale Mar 4, 03:08 PM #