Jan 14 2012
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“ Old fashioned harmony? It’s mostly gone. A more fitting metaphor is the jazz ensemble, where different players riff off each other’s solos. Once meant to communicate eternal values, architecture—for better and for worse— has become a commodity that helps campuses sell themselves. It’s all part of the mind-set that makes the student a consumer and the university a business.
— (Kamin 2010, p. 170) on american college and university campus architecture
