<p>Man-made structures have nothing on nature for me, so Cornell wins in my view.</p>
<p>Cornell
Princeton
Dartmouth
Brown
Yale
Harvard
Columbia
Penn</p>
<p>Fine, fine, even though Columbia is taking over Morninside Heights, it's still FEELS like a natural part of it :D</p>
<p>brown's campus struck me as nice but architecturally unremarkable. The only interesting building is the econ building...</p>
<p>Nightowl: what about Lerner Hall?</p>
<p>The econ building at brown is really cool, for sure. <a href="http://www.econ.brown.edu/%7Epk/prueba_4.gif%5B/url%5D">http://www.econ.brown.edu/~pk/prueba_4.gif</a>
Although it looks better in color and in person.</p>
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<p>Well Lerner certainly does a much better job of acknowledging the buildings around it than, say, Uris or Carman do. Though I've read criticism that Lerner doesn't provide enough connection to the outside community (which I kind of agree with), I still think it's a reasonably attractive addition. At the very least it doesn't detract from MM&W's original buildings, so that's a good thing.</p>
<p>I would agree about Cornell, but <em>only</em> March - November.</p>
<p>robinson hall pictures
Robinson</a> Hall, Fall 2003</p>
<p>dartmouth, IMO</p>
<p>I think Cornell has the prettiest campus, but I also like Princeton.</p>
<p>"Yale's campus is nasty New Haven is just grungy."</p>
<p>Are you kidding me? While New Haven is grungy, so are many New England cities. The central campus at Yale is breathtaking with amazing architecture in all of the 12 residential colleges. </p>
<p>On the other hand, I don't care for Penn's campus at all.</p>
<p>Well, at least Providence is on the upswing. New Haven is just stagnant...and gross.</p>
<p>Cornell</p>
<p>boring maybe but
absolutely breathtaking.</p>
<p>and it's not just the landscape, the architecture at cornell is built to blend in with the nature, and that's something.</p>
<p>Yale and Cornell are my favorite. The architecture at Yale is amazing and Cornell has a great combination of nature and architecture.</p>
<p>I don't care for you either.</p>
<p>-Penn's Campus</p>
<p>I personally like Columbia's campus best</p>
<p>Interesting topic since I just returned from visiting Dartmouth yesterday and was a little disappointed in the campus. I would say in this order based on the campuses I visited:
(1) Cornell (beautiful rolling hills and architecture, with stunning quads) (I hear Princeton, however, is the prettiest)
(2) Columbia (Great use of limited space in a classical setting)
(3) Yale (Great gothic architecture)
(4) Dartmouth (nice and quaint)
(5) Harvard (nothing special, no quaint setting)</p>
<p>If prettiest is defined by art objects on campus, Harvard's HUGE collection of world-famous art (including a truly amazing collection of Shang era bronzes from China) would have to be considered.</p>
<p>Typically, people have either a love-it or hate-it opinion of Yale. I've always felt New Haven is a dump, but my high school buddy who goes there now will defend it to the death. To each his own.</p>
<p>Cornell's quite "pretty", but with that comes the fact that it's in the middle of nowhere. Princeton's better in this regard: equally beautiful, but in suburbia. That said, if you like your city air, it's not your place. New York is pretty close by, but still a trip, something you have to plan, and if you're looking to go wild and paint the town red, then, well... Princeton can feel a bit dull.</p>
<p>Harvard that way is nice balance - they have their own clearly carved out campus in the middle of a great college town. While not as aesthetically pleasing as Princeton or Cornell, maybe, it's a nice balance.</p>
<p>Agree with previous posters on the beauty of the McKim, Mead, and White plan for Columbia. It is a shame that the plan was never brought to completion. The addition of Uris, Mudd, Fairchild and Ferris Booth (eventually Lerner) forever altered what those architects had in mind. The only completed quad was Avery-Fayerweather but imagine if all the quads had been finished on the upper campus and around the dorms around south field. Instead of the ugly Mudd and Uris, imagine the presence of science buildings on 120th street with a green grove of trees rising up to campus level behind Low. University Hall (now Uris) would have been and outstanding addition to the classical campus with its huge meeting/assembly hall. Although we may never know what might have happened if the university did not run out of money, you can still look at drawings of what might have been. </p>
<p>History</a> of the Morningside Heights campus - WikiCU</p>