Valued Perspectives on Creating and Preserving

The article about Professor Shellman in the June PAW kindled memories of his teaching me and others how to see and then remember the buildings and the places that made the Princeton campus so uniquely beautiful — a campus that he first experienced as a graduate student in the early 1940s, before the needs of a great University demanded more growth. For some, that ability to see and remember has created exceptional buildings and places that express changing needs. For others, it has preserved exceptional buildings and places in the face of changing needs. What Professor Shellman taught us encouraged both.