Georgia Tech : Campus Architecture / Robert M. Craig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craig, Robert M. (Robert Michael), 1944- author.

Series:

Images of America.

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture.

Architecture--Georgia--Atlanta--History--Pictorial works.

Georgia Institute of Technology--Buildings.

Georgia Institute of Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

The architectural development of Georgia Tech began as a core of Victorian-era buildings sited around a campus green and Tech Tower. During the subsequent Beaux-Arts era, designers (who were also members of the architecture faculty) added traditionally styled buildings, with many of them in a pseudo-Jacobean collegiate redbrick style. Early Modernist Paul Heffernan led an architectural revolution in his academic village of functionalist buildings on campus--an aesthetic that inspired additional International Style campus buildings. Formalist, Brutalist, and Post-Modern architecture followed, and when Georgia Tech was selected as the Olympic Village for the 1996 Summer Olympics, new residence halls were added to the campus. Between 1994 and 2008, Georgia Tech president G. Wayne Clough stewarded over 1 billion in capital improvements at the school, notably engaging midtown Atlanta with the development of Technology Square. The landscape design by recent campus planners is especially noteworthy, featuring a purposeful designation of open spaces, accommodations for pedestrian perambulations, and public art. What might have developed into a prosaic assemblage of academic and research buildings has instead evolved into a remarkably competent assemblage of aesthetically pleasing architecture.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Georgia Tech Historic District

2. Architecture under Francis Palmer Smith and John Llewellyn Skinner, 1909-1925

3. Traditional Architecture under Harold Bush-Brown, 1925-1939

4. Paul M. Heffernan's Functionalist Academic Village, 1946-1961

5. From School to College of Architecture, the 1960s-1994

6. Architecture during G. Wayne Clough's Presidency, 1994-2008

7. Contemporary Architecture, 2008-Present

8. Architecture of Athletics

9. Fraternities and Sororities.

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ISBN:

9781439673195

1439673195

OCLC:

1263868835