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A lecture hall or lecture theatre is a large room used for lectures, typically at a college or university. Unlike flexible lecture rooms and classrooms with capacities normally below one hundred, [1] [2] the capacity of lecture halls is often measured in the hundreds. Lecture halls frequently have tiered seating, with those in the rear sat ...
The lecture centre is a brutalist building made with reinforced concrete. It contains six large lecture halls with capacities of 160 to 200 people each, as well as smaller teaching rooms and lecture halls with capacities of 60 to 80 people, which are located in long corridors across three floors. [1]
Numerous buildings on the Evanston campus constructed from the early to mid-twentieth century, including lecture halls, student residences, and the university's flagship library, were commissioned in the Collegiate Gothic style by notable American campus architect James Gamble Rogers.
Four buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Hale Hall (originally Enarson Hall), Hayes Hall, Ohio Stadium and Orton Hall.Unlike earlier public universities such as Ohio University and Miami University, whose campuses have a consistent architectural style, the Ohio State campus is a mix of traditional, modern and postmodern styles.
Formerly named the Physical Sciences Building. In 1960 the Drake Lecture Halls were named. In 1967 an addition was built and in 1969 the east wing was added. [13] Chincoteague Hall 1956 Originally the Journalism Building. In 2011, the building underwent a $7.1 million facelift and was renamed.
The Jacob K. Javits Lecture Center is one of the main lecture halls on Stony Brook's campus. It opened in 1969 and was named after New York senator Jacob Javits in 1984 "in honor of Senator Javits’ many contributions to education and Stony Brook University" at the suggestion of a student editor at Stony Brook's newspaper The Statesman .
The split entrances occur near the entry points of the two back-to-back lecture halls, each seating roughly 250. [3] The interior spaces on the ground floor have exposed buff brick walls, the same as the exterior. The internal two fan shaped lecture halls, form a core with buff brick walls on the sides and curved wood walls on the ends.
The lecture halls were specifically designed to be on the lower floors so that they would be easily accessible to students, and would also lower the amount of traffic to the upper floors, which contain 125 offices served by elevators. While the lower floors are quite open in plan, the upper floors follow a traditional race-track layout.