Architecture
Stanford White’s University Heights Legacy: Original New York University Uptown Campus Lisa A. Easton, AIA Wednesday, June 6 8:00 PM Visual presentation and talk Please join us for a talk about The University Heights Campus, a tour-de-force of Beaux-Arts influenced American Renaissance architecture. Stanford White of the renowned firm of McKim, Mead & White designed the campus for New York University in a bucolic setting on a bluff in the Bronx overlooking the Harlem River and Palisades beyond. NYU's desire for a more spacious and architecturally unified campus followed important design trends for academic institutions of higher learning at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. These trends are also notable at Columbia University and elsewhere. Although White's master plan was never fully realized, the strength and importance of the design still reads clearly in the centerpiece rotunda and flanking buildings, including the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, completed between 1894 and 1912. They were the core of its conception and known as the Stanford White Complex. It is now part of the Bronx Community College.
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