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Green Building, Red Tape
Some colleges have decided to build sustainably but skip costly LEED certification. (Photo courtesy Northern Arizona U.)
Princeton Review Will Issue 'Green' Ratings in Coming College Guide
Guest Blogger: Lawrence Speck
Why you should avoid slavish devotion to a single style
Other News
Jahn's Library Dome at U. of Chicago: Elegant Minimalism or Self-Indulgent Object?
Anticipation Builds for U. of Louisville Health Research Facility
In California, Millions Are Distributed for Stem-Cell Research
New campus buildings
Multimedia
Modernism in Albany
(An audio slide show)
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Buildings & Grounds is written by Scott Carlson (left) and Lawrence Biemiller (right). Scott Carlson writes about architecture, facilties, energy, and sustainability, among other topics. Lawrence Biemiller writes about architecture and facilities and contributes to Notes from Academe. What's happening on your campus? Let us know.
At Harvey Mudd, a Parking Problem of a Different Sort
Parking is so tight outside Harvey Mudd College’s dining hall that some students have to prop up their boards several columns away from the dining-hall entrance and walk the rest of the way. (Chronicle photographs by Lawrence Biemiller)
Claremont, Calif.— When Harvey Mudd College students head for dinner, skateboard parking is at a premium outside the college’s Hoch-Shanahan Dining Commons. Fortunately, Harvey Mudd is about as skateboard-friendly as a college could be. Not only is the campus organized as one long straightaway, with a gentle east-to-west slope, but the buildings are ornamented with blocky protrusions that make perfect skateboard holders, accommodating both long and short boards.
Although Harvey Mudd’s buildings call to mind the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, they’re actually by Edward Durrell Stone. The blocky protrusions, by the way, are known locally as warts, and the college claims to have more than 25,000 of them. A wart with a face and limbs, Wally Mudd, appears regularly in campus publications—as well as on a parking spot reserved for the college’s president, Maria M. Klawe.
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quite possibly the dumbest thing i’ve read in a long time.
— sir jorge Mar 19, 01:43 PM #
sounds stupid.
— Tre Mar 22, 08:18 PM #