<p>Some fun buildings to look at, discuss, and wonder why they ranked above YOUR favorite college buildings:</p>
<p>[The</a> 50 Most Amazing Examples of College Architecture](<a href=“http://topcollegesonline.org/most-amazing-college-architecture/]The”>http://topcollegesonline.org/most-amazing-college-architecture/)</p>
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<p>I’m personally pleased to see 4 buildings from the University of Cincinnati on the list, but I can think of a couple of stunners from UIUC that could have been included.</p>
<p>I’m intrigued by and would like to visit the College of the Atlantic–on a Maine island and consisting of cottages & a monastery!</p>
<p>My H & D loved the chapel at Seattle University</p>
<p>I’ve lived in one (Grey Towers Castle) and been in a number of the others. I suspect almost every college in the country has at least one building that could make it to the list (depending how large you want to make the list…).</p>
<p>Someday, I’d like to take a trip to see some of these buildings. It would be nice to tour a campus with the rush/pressure of being a prospectice student/parent.</p>
<p>It’s interesting to me how seniors at UVA apply to live on the lawn in the two long buildings that flank the backsides of the Rotunda. It is a huge honor, and competition is intense even though students have to walk outside their rooms to get to the bathrooms. Walking outside in my robe in the middle of a snowy winters day surrounded by other collegiates wouldn’t be my idea of fun, but, hey…to each to his own I suppose 
! The Rotunda itself truly is magnificent – no surprise it came in at #1.</p>
<p>Yay! UChicago is on here 3 times! I’m surprised that Rockefeller Memorial Chapel was not included.</p>
<p>I’m surprised that the original Bertram Goodhue part of Caltech’s campus isn’t there - but Scripps is similar. There’s another new building on campus that I like better than the one shown. As well as a dreadful one by Edward Durrel Stone. </p>
<p>I didn’t see Pitt’s The Tower of Learning which has always seemed like an iconographic building.</p>
<p>Very disappointed they missed the Air Force Academy Chapel. The rest of the buildings are just boxes but the chapel is great.</p>
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<p>I’m sorry, but somebody’s gotta say it.</p>
<p>U! V! A!! U! V! A!!</p>
<p>Erin’s Dad - I was going to make a similar comment. The Air Force Academy Chapel is magnificent!</p>
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My H & D loved the chapel at Seattle University*</p>
<p>Isn’t that beautiful? I made my D go on the tour, just to tour the chapel.</p>
<p>Great post and loved looking at those buildings. A few other nominees – the grounds at Scripps College; Healy Tower at Georgetown (especially the view form the other side of the Potomac); Ohio Stadium at OSU (before you laugh, it has stain glass windows and is on the national register of historic places); the massive main building at MIT; the “library” at Columbia; and the lawn at Duke University.</p>
<p>One of my favorite buildings is the Math Library at UIUC. It looks like an old castle…I can’t recall, but it either was part of a castle that was brought to this country, or it was a copy of one. It’s even on a postcard they sell in the bookstore. :)</p>
<p>And the Engineering Library there is a wonderful building. (Not the regular library, that was built UNDER the world’s oldest experimental cornfield…) :D</p>
<p>i can’t believe that godawful dr. seuss library at ucsd made the cut. lord, that’s an ugly building!</p>
<p>Frank Gehry needs to be arrested.</p>
<p>I like The Old Dorm block at Reed.
I didn’t know the difference between gargoyles & grotesques, or what a sallyport was, before D went there.
[The</a> Council of Independent Colleges: Historic Campus Architecture Project](<a href=“http://hcap.artstor.org/cgi-bin/library?a=d&d=i489]The”>http://hcap.artstor.org/cgi-bin/library?a=d&d=i489)</p>
<p>* Frank Gehry needs to be arrested.*
Many people would agree with you.
[Heres</a> what the EMP could have looked like | Seattle’s Big Blog - seattlepi.com](<a href=“http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2012/04/12/heres-what-the-emp-could-have-looked-like/]Heres”>http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2012/04/12/heres-what-the-emp-could-have-looked-like/)</p>
<p>Seattle U’s chapel is indeed a gem. The picture of the UW quad in the springtime doesn’t do it justice. IRL, it’s like a fairyland.</p>
<p>OP, thanks for the link.</p>
<p>Seeing the Princeton University Chapel on the list reminded me of a long-ago conversation. A student had just come over from England to pursue his Ph.D. at Princeton. When asked what he thought about the architecture he said, “After Cambridge, the architecture at Princeton is such a disapointment.” We all rolled our eyes but said nothing. I can laugh now because the individual who looked down his nose at Princeton’s architecture ended up spending his entire academic career at Rutgers. </p>
<p>As for Frank Gehry, I could not agree more with the comments above. Call me a Philistine if you wish, but I find the work self-indulgent in the extreme. His work is one big negative externality.</p>