Modern architecture may look good on a college campus, but alumni seldom think so. They want the new buildings they finance to look just like the old ones for sentiment as well as for the sake of architectural harmony. Florida's University of Miami is trying to solve the architectural problem by a clean break with its not-so-distant (1925) past: it is building an all-modern school on a new campus.
Harvard's $2,500,000 new Lament Library, now under construction, is a compromiseĀa kind of midway modern, which is streamlined enough to shock Cantabrigian purists (though the...
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