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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
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