The art of making architecture that engages its surroundings has become such a cliche in recent years that it is easy to overlook the virtues of genuine contextualism, which addresses the essence ...

An old collegiate gothic style building on the University of Chicago’s Hyde Park campus is getting a modern makeover as a student wellness center designed by Chicago-based architecture firm ...

The University of Chicago, for instance, bolstered by local support and $35 million donation from John D. Rockefeller (more than $900 million in 2013 dollars), fashioned a maze of towers ...

Cobb chose an English Gothic style for the University to make the campus feel like an escape to intellectualism to “remove the mind of the student from the busy mercantile conditions of Chicago.” The ...

Gothic style buildings on the campus of the University of Chicago in Illinois,October 2, 1950. (AP Photo) (AP) Higher education in the United States has been roiled in recent years by ...

The university’s campus sprawls over more than 210 acres in the Hyde Park and Woodlawn neighbourhoods, which lie south of downtown Chicago. Its first buildings were modelled on the Gothic style of the ...

When the Max Palevsky Residential Commons (1101 E. 56th St.) opened in 2002 at the University of Chicago the dorms were slammed by the Chicago Tribune’s architecture critic, Blair Kamin, as too ...

Students at the University of Chicago returned this fall to find a brand-new architectural treat: Studio Gang’s Campus North Residential Commons. Commissioned in 2013, the 400,000-square-foot ...

Video: The Architecture of Northwestern — A collection of Peter Kiar's photos from "Northwestern University: The Campus Guide." See more videos from Northwestern magazine.. A mix of traditional ...

They look down from above, watching. Gargoyles, demons and assorted grotesques decorate many of our older buildings, but unless you look up, you will not notice them. Stephen King, the master of th… ...