re: Your Campus in Pictures

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I spent 10 minutes before opening this thread collecting russian brutalism images on Google to make that exact joke. Dammit.

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Some of those shots would fit in well with a few of our buildings. I'm thinking of the Art building which while award winning is in desperate need of a power washing so it doesn't look so Soviet/East German.

In all seriousness, when you're founded in 1794 (we old) AND your campus was the ground zero for a Civil War battle it kinda messes with the architecture. Things were blown to bits or had to be razed.

We have some old buildings that I love, particularly on the Hill and across Cumberland Avenue hidden away from most who visit campus. BUT our architecture after that runs the gambit of seemingly every era and is in general as hodgepodge as it gets.

I may be one of the few but I adore the lego building aka Hodges Library. It's awesome on the inside and I mean everything else aside how can you not love a library that has a Centaur skeleton on display asking you 'Do you believe?' and it also looks great lit up at night. And for me, during the day.

All and although, our campus shows that it was rebuilt and then expand during very different times (some of them cutting edge at the time but baaaaad). I have to say though that lately it's gotten tons better.