In response to: Where Old and New Meet
Current issue
July 2025
On the cover: Wilton Virgo ’00 and his classmates celebrate during the P-rade.
On the cover: Wilton Virgo ’00 and his classmates celebrate during the P-rade.
No need to see the film The Brutalist to understand the anguish and hostility expressed by that school of architecture. A walk around the Princeton campus will be sufficient.
Access to the fields and forest beyond Poe and Pardee fields has been replaced by the prison blocks of Yeh College.
The green space and walkways between Edwards-Brown-Clio & Prospect Gardens are now dominated by a monster of interior space — an art museum that could have been built by U.S. 1 with the proximate parking needed for its visitors.
And the spatial connection between the athletic fields and the eating clubs, where 75% of upper-class students (and a higher percentage of athletes) dine and socialize has been blocked by the Berlin/Gaza wall of the ES and SEAS complex.
Yes, Ron McCoy *80 has made his mark on the Princeton campus.