-ignorance is bliss s (can u see the extra font typo i.e. sic).
-beauty is in the eye of the Cum Laude degree beholder ? (yes, pretentiously and correctly spelled here by this proud graduate),
-and so now ladies, social rejects (meaning you) and germs, a brief architectural synopsis for the most respected & ugliest architecturally designed campus - public "high art" educational institution - on the planet earth...
Location: SUNY, Purchase, N.Y.
Key Architects: Various, including Paul Rudolph, Charles Gwathmey, Phillip Johnson, John Burgee, and Robert Venturi, Al Capone and The Birdman.
SUNY Purchase's campus design may be irony at its most cruel. The campus is actually one of the few on this list that is known for its ugliness, deemed both a "modern interpretation of a medieval fortress" and "a repurposed maximum security prison." The campus has even inspired the sarcastic Tumblr "Beautiful Purchase." The 1960s modernist buildings are as interesting as plain cardboard boxes, and the institutional lack of aesthetic beauty could be taken as a misguided joke for one of the United States best art schools. The Performing Arts Center, for one, greets students like a windowless tower of doom. We'd like to think that it's a modernist architect's gift of a blank canvas to the immensely talented and gifted student body. Most importantly, so few people know that the rooftops of this school empire were designed for police helicopter landings at the height of university rioting and Vietnam war protests of the 1960's.
A summation for this building's crap exterior design - practical thinking for those abstract minds.
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