Architecture faculty express discontent with buildings
By Catherine Conkle and Sarah Peeden | September 8, 2005Twenty-four professors from the Architecture School issued an open letter yesterday addressed to the Board of Visitors, the administration and the University community at large accusing the University of mimicking the Jeffersonian architectural style rather than constructing buildings in the spirit of the University's founder. The professors claimed in the letter that by merely copying the architecture it serves to belittle the legacy of Jefferson's original "Academical Village." "There is a growing and fundamental break between what we value and what we teach in the School of Architecture and how architectural themes are trivialized on Grounds," Architecture Prof.
