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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: Xarissa Holdaway
Unconsciously, many universities follow smart-growth principles
Guest Blogger: Lawrence Speck
A few words in praise of Modern buildings (a few of them, at least)
Other News
Thieves hit U. of Michigan Stadium Construction Site
Jahn's Library Dome at U. of Chicago: Elegant Minimalism or Self-Indulgent Object?
Anticipation Builds for U. of Louisville Health Research Facility
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.
Graduate Student's 'Inside-Out House' Makes a Statement on Privacy
Quad, sweet quad: Kelsey L. Felthousen, a fine-arts student, in (or out of?) her home at the U. of Arkansas at Fayetteville. (Images courtesy U. of Arkansas)
Now this is a different kind of student residence: Kelsey L. Felthousen, a fine-arts graduate student, has built what she calls an “inside-out house” right in the middle of a quad at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
She created the house as part of her thesis—as a visual statement about how people relinquish their privacy on social-networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. “We sort of give up the intimate moments of our lives,” she says.
Ms. Felthousen has been living in the house for the past seven days. “It’s not much different than my home,” she says. The house’s rooms, fully exposed to passers-by, are powered through extension cords. The house even has a bathroom, but no running water—Ms. Felthousen uses the university’s gym facilities to bathe. She hasn’t had many problems with the appliances when it rains, save one: She says she might have lost the microwave.
She also says she met little resistance from the university’s facilities officials, securing the space on the quad in as little as two weeks.
The project will end April 5, and she plans to sell some of the items in a yard sale April 6. You can see her project live on the university’s Web cam, which overlooks the quad. —Hurley Goodall
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