ARCHITECTURE & FACILITIES

Pitt Updates a Landmark

By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER

Pittsburgh

It was one of the most audacious building decisions in the history of American higher education: In the early 1920s, a University of Pittsburgh chancellor named John G. Bowman scrapped a plan to create a genteel Greek-revival campus on a hillside and instead commissioned a 42-story, neo-Gothic skyscraper that he called the Cathedral of...

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