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Caption: Book - 100 Years of Campus Architecture (Allen Weller)
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Law Buildin With the Law Building;, completed in 1955, a complete break was made with earlier campus styles. Ambrose Richardson, the architect (and a former member of the University staff), worked very closely with the building committee of the College of Law and produced a highly functional design. Large areas of glass, a frank use of new materials, beauty of proportion rather than reliance upon decorative detail, and a balanced but asymmetrical massing of the principal elements make the Law Building a distinct change from earlier conceptions. In the 1950's it was still possible to think of University buildings as long and low, suggesting the flatness and spaciousness of the prairies; that urban necessity - - the high-rise building - - was just around the corner.
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