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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.  [/quote]

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.     [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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