Plans to dedicate first floor of New South to the arts are ironic
Regarding “Lewis Center programs headed to New South in fall 2010” (Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010):
How ironic that the first floor of New South will be serving the arts. When New South was built in 1964, and still when I was an undergrad in the late 1970s, it was still a real piece of architecture. At ground level it was open-air — that is, the ground floor consisted only of the elevator core (a picture on the website of the architectural firm James Bradberry Architects depicts the building in its heyday).
This style of architecture was innovated by Frank Lloyd Wright earlier in the 20th century, and even if New South wasn’t quite a Frank Lloyd Wright, it still made a statement.
Sometime in the 1980s, the University — ever short of space — decided to fill in the ground floor with bureaucrats, thus robbing New South of anything that ever qualified it as “architecture.” That’s fine for bureaucrats, but how ironic that this ground floor will now be dedicated to the arts.
Andrew Appel ’81
Professor of Computer Science
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