Thought you might get a kick out of this. And, man, are they ugly....
Thought you might get a kick out of this. And, man, are they ugly. http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2017/10/architectural-digest-law-schools-have-three-of-the-eight-ugliest-university-buildings-in-america.html
The University of Pittsburgh's brutalist building is no exception! Matt Image Unavailable, Please Login
It does look similar. I hate the brutalism school that was so popular in the late 60s and early 70s. Because those buildings hate humans. Matt
Don't know... can't find the name of the firm that did the Pitt building. The firm that did the 'brutalist' Boston City Hall (KMW) actually did some other very nice work. Rudolph's Architecture building at Yale is a huge disaster... 7 stories with something like 30 different floor levels. Many call it unusable and ugly. Dark and oppressive interior. He won darned near every available award at the time.
Yes. Was a way to quickly cheaply and quickly replace war damaged and destroyed buildings in Europe... USSR... started roughly in the early 50's.
Stanford Law School looks, aptly perhaps, a hell of a lot like a prison: Image Unavailable, Please Login And, Tcar, boy are you spot-on about the Yale A+A building. As a graphic design grad student, I recall pitying the other art and architecture students from my cosy perch in a converted fraternity building a couple of doors down from A+A.
Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login It doesn't get much worse than Univ. of Houston's Architecture building.
Wow. At first glance I thought that they were at least putting a circular upper tier on a square lower floor plan, like the Hagia Sophia. Nope. Just awful. Matt
The building's interior is actually very interesting... great spaces with a huge interior atrium with a huge skylight at the top, at the columns.
