@choatiemom , we can disagree with the specifics, but, it seems to me that architecture is an art form, not an ideology. It’s either done well or done badly. As I pointed out upstream, trying to square the circle of a campus of a certain age, with buildings reflecting the latest methods and materials presents a particular challenge. IMO, the Choate example you cite fails because, in trying to straddle the ideological divide, it actually winds up pleasing no one.
I would compare the Wesleyan Cinema Studies complex as a successful attempt to round out the starker elements of the 1973 arts center with a nod toward the traditional: