plokijuhy

How would u guys characterize Brown's campus? Is it very pretty, and how does it compare to the other ivies?

i_wanna_be_Brown

this is arguably the least important thing about a school if you mean from a purely aesthetic standpoint.

If you mean how is it arranged, I'm not that familiar with other schools' campuses. We have several quads: wriston/patriots, vartan gregorian, pembroke, main green/lincoln field/quiet green. The quads are within a neighborhood of PVD known as "College Hill." Nothing on campus is more than 15mins away, with most things being less than 10.

AudiB4

I think the campus is very pretty-especially in the spring when the trees are in bloom. I have seen several campuses and there are many worse and some better, but I consider it a very nice one. Buildings have "charm". What is so nice is that it is five minutes from the "city" but has all of its green grass/quads that many like

musechick2007

^ Agreed. I heard Yale also had a nice campus? Anyway. Brown is SOOOOO pretty during the Spring and Fall. Another amazing place that I was in love with was Swarthmore. Their campus is incredibly green and beautiful. Winter looks kind of drab, but then again, it's winter. Basically, it's a cool campus. Definitely not ugly.

wolfmanjack

Yale is nice but it's also very different. It's really flat whereas Brown is on a hill. I like Yale's campus but it's a but more ridiculous than ours. Like one of their cafeterias looks like a Greek temple with wooden floors and leather seating. Their grad study center has nice woodwork on the ceiling. Everything at Yale is gothic but the funny part is that it's not that old. Their buildings were made to look older by artificially aging the stone. You won't find that at Brown.

Dietrich Neumann, who is doing his last semester teaching architecture at Brown this coming Fall,trashed Yale's architecture during his Modern Arch. class last year and praised Brown's. The funny part is that the reason he is leaving is to go teach at Yale...

I wasn't able to really love anything at Harvard minus Le Corbusier's and HH Richardson's stuff. Brown's List Art building was designed by Philip Johnson who was also a very important 20th Century architect. The new Creative Arts (or whatever) building is being designed by Elizabeth Diller who is somewhat notable.

On my plane ride back home after I was done with school I ended up sitting next to some man who is someone important at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. It was fun for me to educate him about the same people who rebuilt Williamsburg were the ones who built Wriston Quad and some on Pembroke. The connection lies with Rockefeller as Williamsburg also has a John D Rockefeller Jr library. I don't think they call it The Rock though.

elpope

our campus is alright, it would be much better appearance wise if all the buildings weren't quite as cramped

wolfmanjack

some people like that. it's a part of the city like Columbia but in a different way. i too would like a little more space (being from a 2000 acre spread) but it's not too bad and often downright convenient.