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"Educational Edifices"

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Blogger Jeff Burton said...

Visited your alma mater lately? One thing I enjoyed about it when I was there was the sense of open space, right in the middle of Houston. It feels crowded now.

5/17/07, 7:34 AM

Anonymous Mark said...

when everything went to hell architecturally, a whole bunch of bland-to-bad postwar buildings, and a few extravagant new buildings. There was one incredibly awful building, a brutalist concrete nightmare from the 1970s that looked like they dug up Hitler's Bunker and reassembled it above ground in the San Gabriel Valley.

That pretty much describes the Air Force Academy, which was designed and built in the 50s. Between the 50s and 70s the big idea was "a city within a building," so you wound up with buildings that could (literally) fit several full size fottball fields under their roof. It sounded nice in theory, but logistically it was hell.

He thought of every possible reason except for the real one, which was that the existence of conspicuous consumption one has rightful access to -- as a student had rightful access to the fabulous Dupont Memorial Library -- creates a sense of well-being

Actually, that's long been my take, too. We underestimate the psychic value of public access to architectural masterpieces. Such access reduces the envy that results when all such splendor is in private hands.

5/17/07, 12:59 PM

Anonymous Dave said...

I'm just glad you found and posted the passage, Steve. After you alluded to it yesterday, I started leafing through my copy of I Am Charlotte Simmons trying to see which one it might be.

5/18/07, 12:00 AM

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