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Examples of deliberately referential or contextual architecture include Whitman College, at Princeton. Designed by Demetri Porphyrios, the college was built to resemble earlier construction on the campus in the Collegiate Gothic style, examples of which include Mathey and Rockefeller Colleges.
Gothic Revival architecture was used for American college buildings as early as 1829, when "Old Kenyon" was completed on the campus of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. [4] Another early example was Alexander Jackson Davis's University Hall (1833–37, demolished 1890), on New York University's Washington Square campus.
An architecture school (also known as a school of architecture or college of architecture), is a professional school or institution specializing in architectural education. Africa [ edit ]
Princeton University Graduate College (1913), designed by Ralph Adams Cram in the Collegiate Gothic style. Educational architecture, school architecture or school building design is a discipline which practices architect and others for the design of educational institutions, such as schools and universities, as well as other choices in the educational design of learning experiences.
Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design; Campus of the University of California, Irvine. Claire Trevor School of the Arts; Crawford Hall (Irvine) Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, San Francisco [2]: 31 Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles [2]: 34 Crafton Hills Community College, Yucaipa [2]: 36 Earl Warren College
Jefferson's design for the Lawn sought to find an alternative to traditional single-building college architecture, such as that he experienced as a student at the College of William and Mary, due to its being "noisy, unhealthy, vulnerable to fires, and affording little privacy."
Campus comes from the Latin: campus, meaning "field", and was first used in the academic sense at Princeton University in 1774. [4] At Princeton, the word referred to a large open space on the college grounds; similarly at the University of South Carolina it was used by 1826 to describe the open square (of around 10 acres) between the college buildings.
The Main Building of Vassar College is the oldest surviving building on its campus in Poughkeepsie, New York, and the center of academic life.It was built by James Renwick Jr. in the Second Empire style in 1861, the second building in the history of what was one of America's first women's colleges.