Stanford Campus Looks Like Taco Bell and is Ugly

[Anonymous]

This post is like a 2 year old providing their thoughts on a university. Incredible thoughts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Taste is individual, so don't get angry at me if this is your thing, but I was quite underwhelmed. Campus looks like Taco Bell and the inside classrooms look like a strip mall insurance broker's office. At first I thought it looked like La Quinta hotels, but honestly La Quinta has much nicer interiors that most of the Stanford buildings. It may be newer but that isn't an excuse of bad architecture. Duke was built less than a 100 years ago and its campus is stunning.

Stanford's primary architectural style is the style of that region - it's old - not something new - and heavily influenced by Mission Revival and Romanesque. Taco Bell and La Quinta are copying that style. If you don't like it, that's your opinion and that's ok but your post comes across as immature and insulated. As a kid, I didn't care for most CA architecture. But as an adult, I have at least grown to accept and appreciate the historical and cultural influences of that region. I personally prefer the stone east coast (European influenced) campuses too, even over the pretty red-brick ones but they all have their place in history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Duke was built less than a 100 years ago and its campus is stunning.

Duke’s founders designed it based on Yale, Princeton and UChicago. Posers.
https://facilities.duke.edu/about-campus/dukes-architecture/#:~:text=When%20the%20founders%20of%20Duke,would%20be%20ideal%20for%20Duke.

Pitt has the tallest Collegiate Gothic building in the US. #winning

https://www.meer.com/en/64131-a-cathedral-of-learning

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP do you mean Spanish mission architecture? We go to different Taco Bells, and clearly you haven't spent much time in California. Please don't go around spouting off this uninformed opinion. It makes you sound petite bourgeoisie.

This makes me want to see Vertigo again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Taste is individual, so don't get angry at me if this is your thing, but I was quite underwhelmed. Campus looks like Taco Bell and the inside classrooms look like a strip mall insurance broker's office. At first I thought it looked like La Quinta hotels, but honestly La Quinta has much nicer interiors that most of the Stanford buildings. It may be newer but that isn't an excuse of bad architecture. Duke was built less than a 100 years ago and its campus is stunning.

I feel this so hard because when I first visited Fallingwater as a teen, the interior totally reminded me of a 1960s Howard Johnson hotel. That's how cutting edge it is...it took 25 years to go mainstream.

Silicon Valley's pretty ugly in many spots but it sure is rich. And Taco Bell was founded in CA. No doubt there are shared influences on the "architectural vernacular".

https://www.tacobell.com/history

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This post is like a 2 year old providing their thoughts on a university. Incredible thoughts.

Thanks for that trenchant insight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP do you mean Spanish mission architecture? We go to different Taco Bells, and clearly you haven't spent much time in California. Please don't go around spouting off this uninformed opinion. It makes you sound petite bourgeoisie.

Lol, only petit bourgeoisie ever say petit bourgeoisie.

Twas said in jest amigo.

[Anonymous]

I have a suspicion that the newer Stanford buildings were created by the builders of the now closed Mexican restaurant chain "Chi Chi's"

[Anonymous]

I really love Tacos, so this is a bonus for Stanford!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Duke was built less than a 100 years ago and its campus is stunning.

Duke’s founders designed it based on Yale, Princeton and UChicago. Posers.
https://facilities.duke.edu/about-campus/dukes-architecture/#:~:text=When%20the%20founders%20of%20Duke,would%20be%20ideal%20for%20Duke.

Yale, Princeton, and UChicago designed their schools to look like European universities. They're posers too.

Poseurs.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. It's not a resort or a spa. It's an academic institution granting a world class education.

How grim.

The wretched architecture of the west coast combined with dour grimness and grind of an elite university.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. It's not a resort or a spa. It's an academic institution granting a world class education.

How grim.

The wretched architecture of the west coast combined with dour grimness and grind of an elite university.

“Wretched” lmao. Sorry that the west coast doesn’t have shitty dilapidated colonial buildings that look like depression statues in the winter.

Mission revival is really beautiful, especially in the areas with rolling hills and valleys. I still dislike the Stanford campus, but that’s more so, because it never ever ever ends and is in a suburb

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Taste is individual, so don't get angry at me if this is your thing, but I was quite underwhelmed. Campus looks like Taco Bell and the inside classrooms look like a strip mall insurance broker's office. At first I thought it looked like La Quinta hotels, but honestly La Quinta has much nicer interiors that most of the Stanford buildings. It may be newer but that isn't an excuse of bad architecture. Duke was built less than a 100 years ago and its campus is stunning.

Stanford's primary architectural style is the style of that region - it's old - not something new - and heavily influenced by Mission Revival and Romanesque. Taco Bell and La Quinta are copying that style. If you don't like it, that's your opinion and that's ok but your post comes across as immature and insulated. As a kid, I didn't care for most CA architecture. But as an adult, I have at least grown to accept and appreciate the historical and cultural influences of that region. I personally prefer the stone east coast (European influenced) campuses too, even over the pretty red-brick ones but they all have their place in history.

I’m from California and grew up attending a Mission church, walking past a Julia Morgan building on my way to school, and living in mid-century modern homes, so I think the architecture is gorgeous and embodies California. Even Hearst Castle lol.

The first time I went to Yale a few years ago, I found the campus bizarre, like a movie set of pretend Oxford for hobbits.

[Anonymous]

I agree! We didn’t bother applying!

Jk.

Who cares.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This post is like a 2 year old providing their thoughts on a university. Incredible thoughts.

Thanks for that trenchant insight.

lol