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THE ARCHITECTURE ISSUE
The Chronicle Review's yearly look at architecture examines buildings on and off campuses. Above, Caltech's new Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, designed by Morphosis. (Chronicle photograph by Lawrence Biemiller)
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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.
Stern's Firm Will Design Bush Library at Southern Methodist U.
President Bush and his wife, Laura, have chosen Robert A.M. Stern Architects to design Mr. Bush’s presidential library, according to the student newspaper at Southern Methodist University, where the library is likely to be built.
The newspaper, The Daily Campus, says Mr. Stern met with the Bushes August 23 at their ranch in Crawford, Tex., after which they decided to choose his firm over two other finalists.
Mr. Stern, who is also dean of Yale University’s School of Architecture, is known for designing buildings along historical lines. Recent work for universities includes the Joan and Sanford Weill Hall at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Southern Methodist’s campus is primarily Georgian (shown here, the 2003 Blanton Student Services Center). Not everyone at the university is pleased by the plan to build the presidential library there. In March, the faculty senate took up the question of how the library will be governed (The Chronicle, March 16). In January, a group of faculty members asked for a “campuswide dialogue” about the library’s effect on the university (The Chronicle, January 26).
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One is tempted to speculate how many documents in the library will actually be readable – after all the inevitable redacting has been done.
— Al Aug 29, 03:31 PM #
I can imagine the program for the “library”: an enormous space for state secrets, a center for the study of mangled English, and plenty of cameras for surveillance.
— Henry Aug 29, 09:29 PM #
Hope everyone enjoys picture books
— Ryan Aug 30, 02:05 AM #
At least the library won’t be filled with pornographic material, as the Clinton library is. Parents will be able to safely bring their children there.
I am sure Mr. Stern will build President Bush a beautiful library, which will be standing long after these discourteous critics have passed on.
— Tom Aug 30, 07:20 AM #
I’m surprised at Robert Stern. He doesn’t “need” this commission. Can you imagine the architecture students of yore at Yale standing by if their Dean had designed Nixon’s library? They’d have burnt the building again.
Dear Tom, there will be many generations of critics of this administration. We’ve only begun to research and fathom what civil liberties and international relationships this administration has torn down in their insistence on separating Americans and their rights and welfare from the rest of humanity all the while scaring the homeland into compliance on the erosion of what were called at the founding of this nation, “Inalienable Rights”.
They tortured under his leadership. They have held men without access to due process. They obfuscated. They lead us into an unjust war. They meddled with the democratic process in a presidential race. They believe they stand above the rule of law.
Discourteous? That’s silly.
— T. Finch Aug 30, 10:28 PM #