Architecture

Robert J. Clark, a University professor emeritus of art and archaeology, passed away in his home in California on Jan. 4 after a lengthy illness at the age of 73.

While I and other Princetonians with the opportunity to study abroad on one of the major post-graduate fellowships must first give thanks to our parents and teachers, the countless Sunday mornings drowned in Texas French toast, yellow Powerade and debate over The New York Times with friends in the Terrace Club “smoking room” prepared me well for the combative, but intellectual, atmosphere of fellowship interviews.

Princeton’s progress would be hollow if we moved abruptly and without careful respect for the University’s history.

Today we are involved in a project to expand the School of Engineering and Applied Science and create the new Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. The Andlinger Center will be the locus for solving problems of energy and the environment.

The sculptures themselves are modern with hints of the past, very much like the campus is old-fashioned in architecture with modern touches of sculpture.