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The Collegiate Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and Eero Saarinen. Kathleen Brousseau. Ralph Adams Cram 1863-1942. Cambridge University. Oxford University. Cope and Stewardson, Princeton University, Blair Hall, 1896-1898. Ralph Adams Cram, Graduate College, Princeton University,1909.
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The Collegiate Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and Eero Saarinen Kathleen Brousseau
Cambridge University Oxford University
Cope and Stewardson, Princeton University, Blair Hall, 1896-1898
Ralph Adams Cram, Graduate College, Princeton University,1909
Eero Saarinen, Yale University, Ezra Stiles and Morse Colleges, 1962
“The greatest assets that a university has are beauty and harmonious surroundings. In a sense, universities are the oases of our desert-like civilization…as the monasteries of the Middle Ages, they are the only beautiful, respectable pedestrian place left.”
“ a place where the community life and spirit were supreme, the rest secondary: a citadel of learning and culture and scholarship.” “citadels of earthly, monolithic masonry buildings.”