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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my view, few campuses are as profoundly impressive as UVA’s and William & Mary’s.[/quote]

You have a very limited view.  Have you ever ventured outside of Virginia?[/quote]
NP. I've lived all over the country, and have only been in VA for a few years, and find UVA and William and Mary to be absolutely [i]gorgeous.[/i] And impressive.

Why are you (and many others here) so threatened by the fact that people *gasp* like the public universities in Virginia? What's up with that? [/quote]

I literally couldn’t care less about Virginia public universities but I find it odd that somebody can’t appreciate the beauty of campuses outside of the colonial architecture spectrum.....seems limited. [/quote]

The  never said that, bro.  And are you sure that UVA is colonial architecture?

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I think there are different posters here, which may be causing confusion.  Colonial architecture is not a precise style.  It is the architecture of the mother country adapted to the colony.  William & Mary's oldest buildings could certainly be characterized as colonial.  UVA was founded after independence, so you could still try to apply that term, but it is really early republic and Jefferson's influences were classical (Roman, Greek) and Palladio.  I would call it neoclassical.  Jefferson didn't use the same materials or building methods, clearly, as the Romans.  The Rotunda is really a 1/3rd model of the Pantheon. William & Mary's later buildings are probably best described as Georgian or neo-Georgian.  Both UVA and William & Mary started building in the modern style in the 1950s-1970s.  I don't think either school did it very well at all.  The building came off as uninspired and half-baked.  They've both been trying to fix it ever since.[/quote]

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