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Building the Baruch Academic Complex, The City University
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Through widely varied color photographs and architectural drawings, the new project is explored in great detail. The volume includes an illuminating essay by esteemed academic and critic, Kenneth Frampton, who writes in his introduction:
Pederson’s Baruch College is a unique example of a multi-use academic institution on an extremely restricted site. As others have observed, this flagship of the City University system has been rendered here as a “virtual campus”.... To the extent that the university is one of the last institutions capable of representing the body politic to itself, Baruch College may be seen as an exemplary labyrinth in which an entire world may be both enacted and represented. At the same time, it has been conceived as being permeated by everyday life in such a way as to afford a passing glimpse of utopia as an end in itself.
 
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Book Details
About the AuthorKenneth Frampton is the Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University. He is an architect and architectural historian educated at the Architectural Association in London and has worked as an architect in England, Israel, and the U.S. His books include Modern Architecture: a Critical History (1980), Modern Architecture and the Critical Present (1980), Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995), American Masterworks (1995), and most recently a synthetic account of Le Corbusier published by Thames and Hudson in 2001. |
his book explores the complex exercise of designing and building a new building for a City University of New York college within the tight city grid. Comprising nearly 800,000 square feet, the new “vertical campus” houses three schools—the Zicklin School of Business, the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, and the Executive Education Program—in three separate stepped atriums. The atriums not only create unique identities—quads, so to speak—for each of the schools, but they also allow natural light to penetrate even the deepest reaches of the project’s public areas.