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The emailer is talking about Alexander Hall's Richardson Auditorium but I don't think the acoustics and ventilation are bad. I'm willing to concede things may have improved.
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According to Princeton, it doesn't sound like Potter went to Princeton at all:
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Princeton posted this story on its Facebook page today. The article addresses 10 myths about the school, one of which is the Alexander Hall myth. The article is from 1999; it seems very persistent.
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I heard pretty much the same legend about Harrelson Hall at my own alma matter, an unusual cylindrical modernist building that people seem to either love or hate. I started a thread about a long time ago on the old board which I don't feel like searching for right now. In that version, the reason for the failing grade was "it can't be built."
Of course, when I searched for a picture of the building the one I decided to use led me to a bio of the architect wo designed it which pretty much debunks the legend. |
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I can remember reading somewhere a related legend. Supposedly there's a university in the US Southwest where the founders decided to save money by not hiring an architect.
Rather they purchased rejected plans from other universities and built those. |
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It's a little odd looking, but better odd than boring. Some buildings are aggressively out of place in their surroundings, but I can't tell just from the pictures what the location is like, so I don't know if that's the problem.
What I really dislike on some campuses are the Brutalist architecture monstrosities from the 60s & 70s. Pretty much any older stone building will win out against some ugly utilitarian concrete box. Some of the newer glass and steel buildings can be more stylish, although they aren't always. |
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