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Caption: Book - 100 Years of Campus Architecture (Allen Weller)
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A hundred years of history at the University of Illinois have left a tangible record in the stones and bricks and steel and concrete of its three campuses. Obviously, without its physical plant a university could not exist, but buildings reflect many things other than pure utility. A campus is a diary of the times reflecting the vigor of the University, the economic and social climate of the country, and the changing tastes and ideas of each era. The University of Illinois has been fortunate in its building program. Some magnificent challenges have arisen. Chicago Circle offered planners a breathtaking opportunity to create a campus at a single stroke. At the Medical Center in Chicago, planners have had to grapple successfully with a collision of powerful expansion forces against the restraints imposed by a complex urban setting. At the Urbana-Champaign campus, architecture reflects the major tastes and trends of the century past — leavened by unity but lightened by innovation. The architecture of a university can be read by the trained observer just as a geologist reads history in a river bed. Dean Allen Weller of the College of Fine and Applied Arts reads the story of a hundred years of architecture at the University of Illinois; John Severns, architect, writes of the Medical Center campus. Dolores M. Hanson made vital contributions to the preparation of the text and supervised the production of the book. CHARLES S. HAVENS University Director of Physical Plant Planning and Construction
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