The Chronicle of Higher Education
ARCHITECTURE & FACILITIES

At the Air Force Academy, the Buildings Must Be Uniform

By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER

Colorado Springs

The architects and engineers responsible for maintaining the U.S. Air Force Academy's 45-year-old campus here are the caretakers of one of the world's best-known groupings of Modernist buildings.

All were designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill while the firm was at the height of its influence,...

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