Stanford Campus Looks Like Taco Bell and is Ugly

[Anonymous]

I agree, not a fan of their architecture

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

Everyone who has read this thread is now just a little bit dumber because of it.

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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.

I’m much the same, growing up between Colorado and California. A building in California and New England can have the same age, but the one on in New England will look like it’s about to collapse, it’s really strange.

I much prefer Harvard campus over Yale campus- because Harvard is true to the area and time, while Yale is just, like you mention, worse Oxford.

UChicago made me laugh, because it tries so hard to be something else.

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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

The suburban aspect is really awful. It feels like a never-ending strip mall.

[Anonymous]

Yummmmmmmmmm, Taco Bell!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Everyone who has read this thread is now just a little bit dumber because of it.

That must be particularly rough for you, given that you had so little intelligence to start with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

“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

The suburban aspect is really awful. It feels like a never-ending strip mall.

It really sucks because it had just a little bit more of a forested or non-suburban feel, it’d basically be California Duke for me

[Anonymous]

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

+1


If you're choosing based on architecture, well....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Everyone who has read this thread is now just a little bit dumber because of it.

That must be particularly rough for you, given that you had so little intelligence to start with.

Every accusation is an admission of guilt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Everyone who has read this thread is now just a little bit dumber because of it.

That must be particularly rough for you, given that you had so little intelligence to start with.

Every accusation is an admission of guilt.

dumb response

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

Or Chichi's corporate architect was "quoting" Stanford...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

+1


If you're choosing based on architecture, well....

So no one is allowed to notice or comment on university architecture because it isn't a serious enough academic consideration. How dull.

[Anonymous]

Let me guess, OP lives in a center hall colonial with white shutters, a red front door and orange oak floors.

[Anonymous]

The campus is gorgeous, the end