Managing Change with Princeton Style in Mind

As a graduate alum who spent most of his time at Princeton going up and down Washington Road between Jadwin, Fine, and old Frick, my recent trip to the campus to visit the Andlinger Center in the E-Quad brought both a sense of nostalgia and a feeling of claustrophobia. Practically all of the open spaces that I remember are gone, replaced with doubtlessly necessary structures but with spatial arrangements that would drive Escher mad. And some, especially new Frick, are not aging well. I don’t doubt the windows in the Old Grad College still let in the winter winds, but the courtyard is still as welcoming and pleasant as it was decades ago. 

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. But I hope the University manages those changes in ways more evocative of the Princeton style.