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- Tags: 1970s
Venturi Addition, Allen Memorial Art Building
Designing additions to the chaste art museums of an earlier era has challenged the ingenuity and reputation of many prominent contemporary architects. "Like drawing a mustache on a Madonna" was Robert Venturi's phrase for it. Venturi and Rauch's 1976…
Tags: 1970s, classrooms, late 20th century, library, museum, offices, studios
Philips (Jesse) Physical Education Center
The Jesse Philips Physical Education Center, a 115,000-square-foot facility, was designed as a modern replacement for the 1901 Warner Gymnasium (now the Warner Center for Performing Arts). Philips gymnasium is used for basketball, volleyball, and…
Mudd Learning Center
The Seeley G. Mudd Learning Center, named to memorialize the distinguished physician and philanthropist, was completed in 1974. Designed by Warner, Burns, Toan and Lunde of New York, the Center is a five-story, 200,000 square-foot limestone structure…