Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: William Pitt Union, J. Wayne Reitz Union, Willard Straight Hall, the Bone Student Center, Hub-robeson Center, Oklahoma Memorial Union, K-State Student Union, Elmo Natali Student Center, Mckenny Union, Houston Hall, Alfred Lerner Hall, Memorial Union, Memorial Union, Student Union, Mountainlair, Memorial Union, Bronco Student Center, Drake Union, Aztec Center, Coffman Memorial Union, Student Union, Ohio Union, George Sherman Union, Michigan Union, Houston Harte University Center, Tivoli Union. Excerpt: Alfred Lerner Hall, with Carman Hall rising in the background Alfred Lerner Hall is the student center or students' union of Columbia University . It is named for Al Lerner, who financed part of its construction. Situated on the university's historic Morningside Heights campus in New York City, the building, designed by deconstructivist architect Bernard Tschumi, then dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, opened in 1999, replacing the previous student center, Ferris Booth Hall, which stood from 1960-1996. It attempts to both conform to its context of neoclassical McKim, Mead, and White buildings as well as break out of their mold. In so doing, Lerner Hall features redbrick cladding and proportions that hold the street wall of university buildings along Broadway, but reveals a vast glass wall to the campus fabricated by Eiffel Constructions Metalliques, descendant of the firm that built the Eiffel Tower . Behind the wall are a series of escalating ramps that give the building a unified sense of space and are meant to act as a social meeting place much like the steps of Low Memorial Library . The building began receiving harsh criticism even before it was completed. The escalating ramps have never met their purpose as a social meeting p...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Student Activity Centers in the United States: William Pitt Union, J. Wayne Reitz Union, Willard Straight Hall, the Bone Student Center. To get started finding Student Activity Centers in the United States: William Pitt Union, J. Wayne Reitz Union, Willard Straight Hall, the Bone Student Center, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
90
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1155684923
Student Activity Centers in the United States: William Pitt Union, J. Wayne Reitz Union, Willard Straight Hall, the Bone Student Center
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: William Pitt Union, J. Wayne Reitz Union, Willard Straight Hall, the Bone Student Center, Hub-robeson Center, Oklahoma Memorial Union, K-State Student Union, Elmo Natali Student Center, Mckenny Union, Houston Hall, Alfred Lerner Hall, Memorial Union, Memorial Union, Student Union, Mountainlair, Memorial Union, Bronco Student Center, Drake Union, Aztec Center, Coffman Memorial Union, Student Union, Ohio Union, George Sherman Union, Michigan Union, Houston Harte University Center, Tivoli Union. Excerpt: Alfred Lerner Hall, with Carman Hall rising in the background Alfred Lerner Hall is the student center or students' union of Columbia University . It is named for Al Lerner, who financed part of its construction. Situated on the university's historic Morningside Heights campus in New York City, the building, designed by deconstructivist architect Bernard Tschumi, then dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, opened in 1999, replacing the previous student center, Ferris Booth Hall, which stood from 1960-1996. It attempts to both conform to its context of neoclassical McKim, Mead, and White buildings as well as break out of their mold. In so doing, Lerner Hall features redbrick cladding and proportions that hold the street wall of university buildings along Broadway, but reveals a vast glass wall to the campus fabricated by Eiffel Constructions Metalliques, descendant of the firm that built the Eiffel Tower . Behind the wall are a series of escalating ramps that give the building a unified sense of space and are meant to act as a social meeting place much like the steps of Low Memorial Library . The building began receiving harsh criticism even before it was completed. The escalating ramps have never met their purpose as a social meeting p...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Student Activity Centers in the United States: William Pitt Union, J. Wayne Reitz Union, Willard Straight Hall, the Bone Student Center. To get started finding Student Activity Centers in the United States: William Pitt Union, J. Wayne Reitz Union, Willard Straight Hall, the Bone Student Center, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.