Why are South Campus building so damn ugly?

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@flopsy

I'm no Civil Engineering major, but North Campus is mostly flat terrain, thus permitting flat Romanesque architecture. Boelter Hall, Math Sciences and the Life Sciences complex are built into the side of a ~30 foot embankment. For a building style that's uneven and mostly underground, the fancy brick won't suffice; you need reinforced concrete to cope with the foundation

This one cracked me up. Obviously there is no one CE major here:)</p>