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Fisher, Thomas – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Like the proverbial shoemaker's child who goes barefoot, many architecture students learn the best practices of their discipline in some of the worst buildings on their campuses. The problems with the newest architecture-school buildings, says the writer, are both similar and solvable. In a new book, teams of architecture faculty members and…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Architecture, Educational Facilities Design, Higher Education
Carlson, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
A visitor to Saint John's University and Saint John's Abbey, in north-central Minnesota, sees something of Gothic heritage while standing in front of the abbey church, designed and built around 1960. The church's 112-foot campanile--a trapezoidal slab made of 2,500 tons of steel and concrete--stands boldly in front of a huge concrete honeycomb…
Descriptors: Architecture, Higher Education, Educational Facilities Design, Master Plans
Carlson, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Bob Greenstreet is the dean of the architecture school at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. He is the longest-serving dean of any architecture school in the country, starting in 1990, and, since 2004, he has also been the leading planner for the city of Milwaukee. Greenstreet's position is a culmination of a relationship between the city…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Architectural Education, Deans
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Cloud computing, one of the latest technology buzzwords, is so hard to explain that Google drove a bus from campus to campus to walk students through the company's vision of it. After students sat through a demo at computers set up nearby, they boarded the bus and got free T-shirts. The bus only stopped at colleges that had already agreed to hand…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Internet, Information Technology, Electronic Mail
Biemiller, Lawrence – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2002
Describes how campus planners recently held a conference on protecting colleges' architecture, but that the word "preservation" still strikes fear in their hearts as an issue likely to be costly and divisive. (EV)
Descriptors: Architecture, Campus Planning, College Buildings, Conferences
Carlson, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
More colleges are turning to famous designers for new buildings, banking on the publicity and prestige a star architect will bring. This has led some critics to focus on cost overruns and poor planning, questioning the priorities behind the big expensive projects. Describes this controversial building design at several campuses nationwide. (SM)
Descriptors: Architects, Architecture, Building Design, Educational Facilities
Foster, Andrea L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Since its unveiling in 2003, professors and college students have flocked to the virtual world of Second Life. Professors use Second Life to hold distance-education classes, saying that communication among students becomes livelier when they assume digital personae. Anthropologists and sociologists see the virtual world as a laboratory for…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Planning, Architecture, Audience Awareness, Virtual Classrooms
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
The American Institute of Architects honored five recently completed university buildings whose architects solved the difficulties of site and scale: Columbia University's Computer Science Building, Dartmouth's Hood Museum of Art, Emory's Museum of Art, Princeton's Lewis Thomas Laboratory, and the University of California at Irvine's Computer…
Descriptors: Architecture, Awards, Building Design, College Buildings
Guernsey, Lisa – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1997
An art history video created at the Columbia University (New York) Media Center for Art History takes the art student on a computer-animated video tour of Amiens Cathedral (France) designed to make architectural history come alive by illustrating the chronology of the building's construction. The Center was established to encourage faculty to…
Descriptors: Animation, Architecture, Art Education, Art History
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2005
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This March 25, 2005 issue of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "The Walkable Campus" (Sparling, Phillip B.); (2) "The Sitting Is…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Planning, Food, Higher Education, Architecture