Most beautiful campuses

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Anonymous wrote:Not to twist this thread, but I actually really disliked Northwestern. Other than the beach and Deering, it's just a bunch of brutalist architecture and modern glass eyesores. I preferred their neighbor down the street and the Ivies.

If your college doesn’t have a few Brutalist buildings, I think it might mean finances were strong in the period when those were built. So many colleges have a Brutalist “black sheep” or two. I think they’re funny.

Brutalism was a used because it was in vogue, not due to money. Harvard and Yale have brutalist buildings and they are generally considered among the most wealthy.

And it’s always the math and sciences buildings.

Huh?

Pitt
- Forbes Quad (now called Posvar Hall, I think), general classrooms and some social science departments.
- Information Sciences Building (information sciences)
- Law building (law)
- Litchfield Towers (dorms)
- Hillman Library (library)

Georgetown
- main library, can't remember its name

Michigan
- Fleming, administrative building (demolished a few years ago)
- North Campus Bell Tower (bell tower)

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Anonymous wrote:Not to twist this thread, but I actually really disliked Northwestern. Other than the beach and Deering, it's just a bunch of brutalist architecture and modern glass eyesores. I preferred their neighbor down the street and the Ivies.

If your college doesn’t have a few Brutalist buildings, I think it might mean finances were strong in the period when those were built. So many colleges have a Brutalist “black sheep” or two. I think they’re funny.

Brutalism was a used because it was in vogue, not due to money. Harvard and Yale have brutalist buildings and they are generally considered among the most wealthy.

And it’s always the math and sciences buildings.

And architecture (Harvard, Yale), visual arts (Harvard), libraries (University of Toronto, UCSD), dorms. . .

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Anonymous wrote:No one has named Berry, which often comes up on these lists.

I like its motto. It’s in Latin, but it roughly translates as “The bi+ch set me up.”

Berry doesn’t have as Latin motto.

You have been cucked.

Ha ha. I have spent a lot of time in Rome, GA. The Berry campus is lovely but the school itself is tiny. The cows and pastures are cool.

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Anonymous wrote:Not to twist this thread, but I actually really disliked Northwestern. Other than the beach and Deering, it's just a bunch of brutalist architecture and modern glass eyesores. I preferred their neighbor down the street and the Ivies.

If your college doesn’t have a few Brutalist buildings, I think it might mean finances were strong in the period when those were built. So many colleges have a Brutalist “black sheep” or two. I think they’re funny.

Brutalism was a used because it was in vogue, not due to money. Harvard and Yale have brutalist buildings and they are generally considered among the most wealthy.

And it’s always the math and sciences buildings.

Huh?

Pitt
- Forbes Quad (now called Posvar Hall, I think), general classrooms and some social science departments.
- Information Sciences Building (information sciences)
- Law building (law)
- Litchfield Towers (dorms)
- Hillman Library (library)

Georgetown
- main library, can't remember its name

Michigan
- Fleming, administrative building (demolished a few years ago)
- North Campus Bell Tower (bell tower)

To be fair, a lot of buildings constructed in the 1950s to the 1970s didn't have to be brutalist to be clunkers.

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There are a lot of campuses that are overlooked simply because most people haven't visited. I can't think of a state flagship that is more beautiful than the University of Colorado, for instance.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of campuses that are overlooked simply because most people haven't visited. I can't think of a state flagship that is more beautiful than the University of Colorado, for instance.

Disagree. Surroundings yes - campus, not so much.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of campuses that are overlooked simply because most people haven't visited. I can't think of a state flagship that is more beautiful than the University of Colorado, for instance.

Disagree. Surroundings yes - campus, not so much.

Which are better in your view?

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Duke!

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Anonymous wrote:Duke!

CU Boulder's natural surroundings and town are better than Duke in my view. For campus itself, I think you could argue for the original Duke West Campus, but if you include everything (e.g. East Campus), I think CU Boulder's campus is better. But, to each their own.

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Scripps!! So beautiful

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Anonymous wrote:Scripps!! So beautiful

It is lovely

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I don't think any U.S. colleges can challenge Cambridge and Oxford for beautiful architecture and gardens. The only U.S. ones that could compete would have to do it on the basis of spectacular natural setting (oceans or mountains).

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Anonymous wrote:Duke hands down!

Faux Princeton? Check out the real thing, not some cancer school funded by death sticks.

You know Princeton is modeled after Oxford and Cambridge right?

If you want authentic, you have to go to Europe.

DP. Even so, Princeton has a style than Duke lacks, perhaps because Nassau Hall once served as the U.S. Capitol and the town is historic as well. Duke is more obviously a copy of something else, and Durham was a tobacco town.

And almost every picture of Duke seems to be the Duke Chapel, whereas pictures of Princeton highlight any number of the buildings on campus.

Almost every photo of Princeton is Blair Hall

Nope. Do a search for the campus and it will pull up lots of pictures of Nassau Hall, Holder Hall, East Pyne, Whig/Clio, Firestone Library, McCosh Hall, and others in addition to Blair Arch.

Duke is nice, especially in the spring. It just doesn’t wow me the same way. People mostly pay attention to West Campus and the Duke Chapel. Virginia Tech and Washington U also have a lot of nice Gothic buildings.

What makes Wash. U. extra nice, architecturally speaking, is off-campus Beaux-Arts apartments where students can afford to live.

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NYU

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My DC's search centered around Catholic schools and the ones we found most beautiful were Notre Dame and Boston College.