re: What is "the quad" ??

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Troy Middleton's stated rationale for destroying the aesthetic there was so fricking stupid, as well. Could have easily expanded the original Hill Library, or built it where the Union or Lockett Hall is. It's criminal anyone let him plop that monstrosity smack in the middle of the original cruciform.

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It was the 1950s. "Urban Renewal" or whatever you call it, was all the rage in cities and what have you. Anything NOT new, boxy, Bauhaus, "mid-century modern" was "OLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLD" (sounds familiar, no?) Anything to "update" the old was preferred even if it meant the destruction of buildings we now lament or recognize for historical or architectural significance. Or, in this case, plopping down a brick box of a building in the middle of an ensemble of buildings.