The Costs of Building (and Demolishing)

In response to James G. McCulloh's Vitruvian lament, I would say that I’m willing to wait to judge the venustas of the Art Museum until I’ve visited it, but also to give it time. Campuses change. Tastes change. My concern is more catholic: that construction on the campus has become metabolic, as if to stop would kill the place. And the amount of carbon that the University has wasted in its insistence on demolition is stunning. Some enterprising senior should do an accounting of it as the basis for a thesis.