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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an architecture enthusiast, I dislike schools that build modern buildings in a faux-old style. A little juxtaposition (a modern dorm nestled amongst older buildings or the glass-fronted library from the 70s across from a neoclassical building from the 1800s) makes things interesting.

The faux-old buildings are the college campus equivalent of new homes with craftsmen details thrown on the front to give the air of “character.”

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If done well, modern architecture can add variety.  But a lot of the stuff done in the 1950s through the 1970s, at least at the colleges in this region, were not good examples of modern architecture.  They lacked imagination and had no sense of context.   They often continued to use traditional materials, like brick, which didn't really work as well.  When they meet the wrecking ball, they usually aren't lamented.

"Modern buildings in a faux-old style" could either be post-modern, which became trendy in the 1980s, or neoclassical.  The buildings at Richmond could probably be called neo-collegiate gothic.  So yes, you could say Richmond was conservative, but they aren't left with the equivalent of bell-bottomed pants.[/quote]

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