UA Law School ranked #8 in the country

[AL34]

<p>^ I’ll be the judge of that!
Going down to take little bro on his first visit Thurdsay :)</p>

<p>Roll Tide!</p>

[feenotype]

<p>To me, Greek Revival architecture is best suited on buildings from the Greek Revival era, such as the original (post-Civil War) buildings surrounding the Quad, most notably Gorgas Library:</p>

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<p>Of course columns need not be confined to Greek Revival architecture. ten Hoor (political science, history, etc) and Gordon Palmer (math, psych) are examples:</p>

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<p>The biggest offenders in my book are modern buildings that poor trying to adapt Greek Revival style to modern structures. The most salient example is of course Shelby Hall with is overlarge Rotunda, ill-fitting a science research building (a hallmark of science to me is efficiency, and nothing about the enormous columns and occulus in the Rotunda strike me as efficient).</p>

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<p>However, Greek Revival can be used on modern buildings to good effect. Alston Hall (business school) is the perfect example:</p>

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[feenotype]

<p>The Law School Building certainly has the most antithetical design (as compared to most UA buildings), but I don’t think that is necessarily a bad thing.</p>

[mom2collegekids]

<p>It’s just that law is rooted in old tradition, history, and precedence so it’s odd that the building would have a more modern look. The building should be tall, stately, and have huge columns.</p>

[LadyDianeski]

<p>feenotype – love those pix. Thanks! </p>

<p>ten Hoor Hall is lovely, but someone needs to pressure-wash the crud from off of the area right below the roof. :p</p>

<p>I actually grew up in a Greek Revival house, from age eigtht on. It had been built just before the Civil War. It was very large, but it was definitely a fixer-upper, and that’s the understatement of the millennium. In later years, my siblings and I liked to refer to it as “This Old Dump.” My poor mom had dreams of transforming it a la This Old House – but she never had even remotely enough money. Just keeping the clapboards painted and the roof repaired exhausted her resources. </p>

<p>However, the house did have a perfectly wonderful front porch with Greek Revival columns. (It also had a widow’s walk on the roof, although we were 20 miles from the ocean. Go figure!) After my mother’s death, my siblings and I sold the house to two brothers who planned to subdivide it into condos. Which they proceeded to do. A year or so later, my kid sister happened to drive by and noticed that they had replaced the Greek Revival porch columns with STONE columns. Rustic-style stone, such as you’d see on a log home. No doubt the original columns were in poor repair – perhaps even termite-ridden – and desperately needed replacement. But with STONE? How historically insensitive can you get? Ugh!</p>

<p>The two brothers later built another multiple-condo building in the field next to the house, where my siblings and friends and I had spent countless hours playing, sledding, and tobogganing. Considering that this field was where the septic system was located, I still haven’t figured out quite how they managed to build something there. :o </p>

<p>Please excuse this off-topic trip down memory lane, LOL. It doesn’t take much to get an old geezeress to start reminiscing…</p>