Campus Should Be Green Spaces and Collegiate Gothic
All new buildings that look like corporate office buildings ruin the campus. All should be of collegiate gothic design as was the campus when my 1955 class graduated. All green spaces and trees should have been kept as is. Is the new art museum an architectural gem or a cheap rendition of a concrete slab?! Who wants to go to Reunions to walk around those new junk “architectural” slabs? Or give to a corporate oligarchy who have ruined what once was a campus like no other?
Princeton University now looks like a mess as past presidents warned and were afraid of. It is no longer a beautiful green tree-lined campus but a crowding of slab architecture that is the epitome of industrial warehouses and corporate office buildings. Now the campus looks like any state public university. You can rationalize all you want to about the wonders of modern architecture. But I know junk when I see it, and Princeton has excelled at that.
All new buildings that look like corporate office buildings ruin the campus. All should be of collegiate gothic design as was the campus when my 1955 class graduated. All green spaces and trees should have been kept as is. Is the new art museum an architectural gem or a cheap rendition of a concrete slab?! Who wants to go to Reunions to walk around those new junk “architectural” slabs? Or give to a corporate oligarchy who have ruined what once was a campus like no other?
Princeton University now looks like a mess as past presidents warned and were afraid of. It is no longer a beautiful green tree-lined campus but a crowding of slab architecture that is the epitome of industrial warehouses and corporate office buildings. Now the campus looks like any state public university. You can rationalize all you want to about the wonders of modern architecture. But I know junk when I see it, and Princeton has excelled at that.