Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Athenaeum was designed by Gordon Kaufmann in the Mediterranean Revival style, with landscape design by Florence Yoch and Lucile Council, and opened in 1930. It includes a restaurant, bar, private hotel rooms, [1] and serves as Caltech's Faculty Club. [2] The Athenaeum has several named suites, including the Einstein Suite, where Albert ...
The Athenaeum is a faculty club and private social club on the California Institute of Technology campus in Pasadena, California.It was designed by Gordon Kaufmann in the Mediterranean Revival style, with landscape design by Florence Yoch and Lucile Council, and opened in 1930.
The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) [a] is a private research university in Pasadena, California. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advances and is among a small group of institutes of technology in the United States that are devoted to the instruction of pure and applied sciences. [10] [11]
July 21, 2023 at 8:26 PM. Lev Marcus, 14, signs a card for his grandfather Rudy Marcus, who celebrated his 100th birthday with a day of festivities at Caltech. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times ...
In a milestone breakthrough, more than half of Caltech's incoming undergraduate class in the fall will be women for the first time in its 133-year history. The class of 113 women and 109 men comes ...
The house system is the basis of undergraduate student residence at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Caltech's unique house system is modeled after the residential college system of Oxford and Cambridge in England, although the houses are probably more similar in size and character to the Yale University residential colleges ...
1930 Athenaeum, California Institute of Technology – 551 South Hill Avenue, Pasadena, California. Architect. [15] 1932 Harper Hall, Claremont Graduate University – 150 East 10th Street, Claremont, California. Architect. [16] 1934 Santa Anita Park – 285 West Huntington Drive, Arcadia, California. Architect.
The history of the house system at the California Institute of Technology encompasses both the history of the physical houses and of the student self-governance and culture associated with them. The Caltech house system currently encompasses eight houses: the South Houses constructed in 1931 hosts four houses, the North Houses constructed in ...