1. The Complete Guide to Carnegie Mellon Buildings and Campus Plans (abridged) (with apologies to the Reduced Shakespeare Company) Martin Aurand 2005
Reduced Shakespeare Company
I’m not so funny.
We’ll move quickly.

2. Act One: The Hornbostel Era
1904-early 1930s
Silk ties – terra cotta banding
Act One: The Hornbostel Era

3. “Plan of Site of the Proposed Carnegie Technical Schools,” 1904.

4. Palmer & Hornbostel. Carnegie Technical Schools Competition. 1904.
Competition scheme
Beaux Arts planning
Too much architecture
Palmer & Hornbostel. Carnegie Technical Schools Competition

5. Palmer & Hornbostel. Carnegie Technical Schools Competition. 1904.

6. Palmer & Hornbostel. Campus Master Plan. 1906.

7. Palmer & Hornbostel. Campus Master Plan. 1911
Palmer & Hornbostel. Campus Master Plan Urban and Topographical Setting including Junction Hollow.

8. Palmer & Hornbostel. Margaret Morrison Carnegie College. 1905-1907.
Topographical solution
Palmer & Hornbostel. Margaret Morrison Carnegie College

9. Palmer & Hornbostel. Hornbostel Mall. 1905-1916.

10. Thomas Jefferson. University of Virginia. 1817-1826.

11. Court of Honor, World’s Columbian Exposition. Chicago. 1893.

12. Buildings meet slope
Simple Classical styling
Palmer & Hornbostel. School of Applied Industries (Porter and Baker Halls)

13. Henry Hornbostel. School of Applied Science (Doherty Hall). 1907-1909.

14. Henry Hornbostel. School of Applied Design (College of Fine Arts)

15. Henry Hornbostel. Machinery Hall (Hamerschlag Hall). 1912-1914.
As we know it
Tri-partite (Palladian)
Henry Hornbostel. Machinery Hall (Hamerschlag Hall)

16. Façade for Campus when seen from Oakland.
Scenographic Element within the Landscape.

17. Space
Centerpiece of a formal landscape and architectural ensemble / Planned Pictorial Vista / Ideal Viewpoint / Power Plant as Focal Point / One Point Linear Perspective / Stage Set / Optical Illusions.

18. Optical Illusions.

19. Optical Illusions / View Corridor / Closed vs. Open Composition.

20. Henry Hornbostel. Western University of Pennsylvania (University of Pittsburgh). 1908.

21. Composite map of Oakland.

22. Charles Z. Klauder. Cathedral of Learning. 1926-1937.

23. Perforated Massing / View Corridor.

24. Contiguous site
Not Carnegie Tech
Geological sections
Henry Hornbostel. U.S. Bureau of Mines (Hamburg Hall) Acq

25. As built
Power house
Experimental mine shaft
Henry Hornbostel. U.S. Bureau of Mines (Hamburg Hall) & Power Plant

26. Henry Hornbostel. U.S. Bureau of Mines (Hamburg Hall). 1915.
Part of grand vision
Henry Hornbostel. U.S. Bureau of Mines (Hamburg Hall)

27. “Proposed Tech Group and Map Showing Morewood Entrance,” 1912.

28. Albert Davis Taylor. Campus Landscape Plan. 1924-1926?.
Landscape design
Spruce up campus after decades of construction and WWI
“the cut”
Albert Davis Taylor. Campus Landscape Plan ?.

29. Act Two: Post-War Expansion
Glass boxes in glass boxes
Proud papas
Act Two: Post-War Expansion

30. Campus Plans Githens & Keally. 1938.
Rice, Schweikher et al
Rice, Schweikher et al
Sasaki, Dawson & DeMay
Campus Plans

31. Building boom
Building Boom

32. Francis Keally et al. Doherty Hall Addition. 1949-1950.
From between-wars plan
Head house for north range
Not Hornbostel but contextual
Francis Keally et al. Doherty Hall Addition

33. Semi-contextual (yellow brick)
Marlier & Johnstone. Graduate School of Industrial Administration

34. ditto
Mitchell & Ritchey. U.S. Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training Center Acq

35. Lawrie & Green. Hunt Library. 1957-1961.
First central library
Aluminum because of donor
Object building: radiator
Lawrie & Green. Hunt Library

36. Griswold, Winter and Swain. Fine Arts Garden (Peace Garden). 1961.

37. Altenhof & Bown. Scaife Hall. 1962.
Box with pavilion
Object building: potato chip
Altenhof & Bown. Scaife Hall

38. DEMOLISHED Lawrie & Green. Skibo. 1960. Two linked boxes
Criticized on opening
Only major building demolished
Lawrie & Green. Skibo

39. Charles Luckman Assoc. Warner Hall. 1966.

40. Deeter Ritchey Sippel. Cyert Hall. 1982-1983.
Warner multiples
Back to glass box
Deeter Ritchey Sippel. Cyert Hall

41. Deeter Ritchey Sippel. Wean Hall. 1968-1971.
Contextual?
Deeter Ritchey Sippel. Wean Hall

42. Harrison & Abramovitz. Panther Hollow Project. 1963.
NOT BUILT
megastructure
Harrison & Abramovitz. Panther Hollow Project

43. Hornbostel mall vs. empty unstructured space
Campus. ca

44. Act Three: A Campus Renewed
New boom
Return to the yellow brick road

45. CRS Sirrine. Campus Master Plan. 1985.
Need for a University Center
Winged buildings
Fill-in ravine
CRS Sirrine. Campus Master Plan

46. CRS Sirrine. Junction Hollow Planning Study. 1986.

47. IKM Inc. Physical Plant Building. 1987-1988.
Bridges ravine
IKM Inc. Physical Plant Building

48. Leon Krier. University Center Competition. 1987.

49. Dennis, Clark & Associates/TAMS. University Center Competition. 1987.
Beaux Arts planning
ravine
Dennis, Clark & Associates/TAMS. University Center Competition

50. Dennis, Clark & Associates/TAMS. University Center Competition. 1987.
Elevations
Return to Classical language
Dennis, Clark & Associates/TAMS. University Center Competition

51. Dennis, Clark & Associates/TAMS. University Center Competition. 1987.

52. Athletic quadrangle
Dennis, Clark & Associates/TAMS. East Campus / Athletic Quadrangle

53. UC
Integrated with East Campus
Pavilions and passages
Michael Dennis & Associates / UDA Architects. University Center

54. Simplified
Shapes cut on west
Path becomes defined space
Michael Dennis & Associates / Damianos + Anthony / John Sergio Fisher & Associates. Purnell Center for the Arts

55. Kallmann McKinnell and Wood. Posner Hall. 1990-1993.
GSIA addition
elegant
Kallmann McKinnell and Wood. Posner Hall

56. Payette Associates. Roberts Hall. 1993-1997.
Plinth with light cap
mistake
Payette Associates. Roberts Hall

57. Michael Dennis & Associates. Campus Master Plan. 1997.
Master plan built out
Michael Dennis & Associates. Campus Master Plan

58. Sasaki Associates, Inc. Open Space Plan. 1995.
Spruce up campus after decade of construction
Not funded
Sasaki Associates, Inc. Open Space Plan

59. Act Four: Building for a New Century
Parallel to Yellow brick road and beyond
Off campus and on

60. Bohlin Powell Larkin Cywinski / Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann
Bohlin Powell Larkin Cywinski / Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann. Software Engineering Institute

61. Peter Eisenman. Carnegie Mellon Research Institute. 1987-1989.
NOT BUILT
CMRI brochure.
Peter Eisenman. Carnegie Mellon Research Institute

62. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Carnegie Mellon Research Institute. 1991-1995.

63. Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann. NASA Robotics Engineering Consortium

64. Penthouse
Test bed for innovations in enclosure / HVAC / IT, etc.
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson w/ Pierre Zoelly. Intelligent Workplace

65. WTW. Newell-Simon Hall. 1998-2000.
New stories
Bridges ravine like Physical Plant
WTW. Newell-Simon Hall

66. Burt Hill Kosar Rittelman. Baker Hall Addition. 1999-2000.
Missing wing
Most underground
Burt Hill Kosar Rittelman. Baker Hall Addition

67. Burt Hill Kosar Rittelman. Doherty Hall Addition. 2001-2003.
Not new wing
Expanded wing
Shows off mechanicals
Burt Hill Kosar Rittelman. Doherty Hall Addition

68. Davis Gardner Gannon Pope. Collaborative Innovation Center. 2002-2005.

69. WTW. Posner Center
Mel Bochner / Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates. Kraus Campo
Also in-between space
Most underground
Rare books / treasures / Board of Trustees

70. Ayres/Saint/Gross. Campus Master Plan. 1999-2002.
Enhance the quality of campus open space
Create sites for new buildings
Define better campus entrances
Develop West Campus and Morewood precincts effectively
Improve the character of Forbes Avenue
Improving parking and transportation systems
Campus in urban and topographical context
Ayres/Saint/Gross. Campus Master Plan

71. Ayres/Saint/Gross. Campus Master Plan. 1999-2002.
Remaining building sites
Green spaces
Parking / Forbes
Ayres/Saint/Gross. Campus Master Plan

72. Gates Center for Computer Science.
ISSUES
Campus Legacy
Leaving the Yellow Brick Road
Topography
Loss of Landscape
Front vs. Back / Up vs. Down
View Corridors and Sight lines
Roof Texture

73. ?
Gates Center for Computer Science. Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects