Founded 1348 by Edmund Gonville and Refounded 1557 by John Caius.
Originally Gonville Hall 1348-1351.
Sister College – Brasenose College Oxford. Men and Women –Undergraduates 500 Postgraduates 250.
Gonville and Caius was founded in 1348 as Gonville Hall, by the somewhat mysterious Edmund Gonville, Rector of Terrington St Clements, from the flatlands of Norfolk. There must have been more to Edmund than the records show, because it is doubtful a humble rector could have established a Cambridge college. There has been speculation that he was also a successful businessman with powerful connections, especially with William Bateman, the bishop of Norwich. The good bishop was executor to Edmund’s will and discovered the estate was not really big enough to support the institution, so he took control himself. Bishop Bateman had recently established Trinity Hall in Cambridge and he moved Gonville, (from Free School Lane) on to neighbouring land, renaming it ‘The Hall of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary’, making sure it was endowed with the required buildings.
Property scattered around Cambridge
The college, one of the richest in Cambridge, is situated in the city centre, close to the market square, and is home to 250 postgraduates and 500 undergraduates of which the majority are men by some 14%. The ground plan sits in a rough oblong whose sides are not parallel, a feature that seems to have been embraced by subsequent builders with ranges not square to each other. Despite the apparent small physical size of the original main site, all students can be accommodated in college owned property, although it is scattered all around Cambridge. Tudor style St Michael’s Court, designed in 1903 by Aston Webb, is just across the road (T...
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...ce for revival Gothic, among the Victorians guardians of the college. The fashionable Gonville and Caius approached a leading Gothic exponent, Alfred Waterhouse, for their next project. Waterhouse had designed the Natural History Museum in London, along with buildings at Girton College. Tree Court is a glorious, over the top, hybrid of Gothic and Romanesque with its ornate gargoyles has been both glorified and vilified.
In 1995 the college seized the opportunity to lease the Cockerel Building (named after the architect) a fine classical Grecian building, just outside the Gate of Honour. It was originally designed as a museum in 1842 but is now a library.
Gonville and Caius have a strong academic record and is seen as one of the more traditional Cambridge colleges, delivering a large proportion of the tuition in-house. The independent schools supply 58% of membership.
...ch allows the person to enter the glass atrium connecting all of the wings of the building, which was added in 2012. Breuer was honored with the commission after he had shown his design abilities in other aspects throughout the city. The museum expansion was just one of the few of Breuer’s designs that still stand today. Breuer’s work in both furniture design and architecture has been around for many years, and will continue to be around for many more to come.
By the time Hunt was selected to design the Administration Building, he was near the end of his distinguished career. The first American architect to attend the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Hunt had acquired the status of "dean of American architecture" (Stein 3). His reputation was supported by his large output of fine eclectic buildings such as the Breakers in Newport (1892-95) and Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina (1888-95), both estates for the wealthy Vanderbilt family. These two stylistically different buildings exhibit the quality of Hunt's architecture known as the "grand manner," where he achieved monumentality by combining different sources of classical architecture. This quality was what attracted the fair organizers, and it would be carried to its furthest expression in the Administration Building.
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Hunt designed many incredible homes during the Gilded Age, when many businessmen became rich and built huge mansions. He also designed many public buildings in New York, Boston, Newport, and Chicago. Some of his most famous works were the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty, the façade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Biltmore House, and two of the Newport cottages (the Breakers and the Marble House). His favorite style of architecture was Beaux-Arts, and the influence is seen in many of his designs.
The University of Maryland names the majority of its campus’s buildings after the legacies of influential alumni and world scholars. Most would assume that the activities that occur in each of these buildings would be a representation of the namesake, however, that is not true for the Skinner Building.
The granite central arch of the Boston Public Library bears an inscription: FREE.TO.ALL. These words capture the spirit of the library, the first large municipally funded library in the United States. The Boylston Street building was built to meet the growing demand for a public library, with the previously existing library on Mason Street having outgrown its purpose. Built in 1895, the building is an outstanding example of Renaissance Beaux Art style, and was intended as a “palace for the people,” a philosophy which was reflected in both its design and its cost. As Peter Arms Wick writes, it is “One of Boston’s proudest monuments, perhaps the most admired, discussed and influential public buildings in American architectural
With the Pantheon being built over 1700 years ago, it’s amazing that architects are still using features and techniques from this work of architecture in modern creations. The use of this type of classical architecture will continue to be used in works for public space due to its remarkable exterior appearance and it’s long lasting structural durability. When both Jesse hall and the Pantheon are compared it is possible to see their similarities from the types of domes that top each, their external facades, and their interior plan. While they share many similarities, the differences that Bell and Binder used in their creation make this work of architecture unique to many other public spaces.
Print. The. Frankl, Paul, and Paul Crossley. Gothic Architecture. New Haven: Yale UP, 2000.
The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament, serves as the meeting place for the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The Old Palace was a medieval building that was destroyed by fire in 1834. After the fire, a competition was held for architects to submit plans for the new building that should be in a Gothic or Elizabethan style hoping to embody the conservative values of England. A Royal commission chose Charles Barry’s designs for a Perpendicular Gothic palace. Barry’s own style was more classical than Gothic which is why Augustus Pugin’s involvement was so crucial in Barry winning the competition. Barry’s plans reflected more of his knowledge of the neo-classical style through its symmetry. Pugin was the leading authority on Gothic architecture at the time. Almost all of the remains of the Old Palace were incorporated into the new design. Their work on the Palace began in 1840 and, while most of the work was finished by 1860, the New Palace of Westminster was not complete until a decade later. One of the most identifiable features of the Palace is the Elizabeth Tower, commonly identified by its main bell, “Big Ben”. The building is also known for two main spaces; the Lord’s Chamber and the Common’s Chamber. It is well identified by its main façade which runs parallel to the River Thames. The Palace, as it stands today, has been conserved very well to best display the designs as Charles Barry and Pugin intended them to be displayed. The Palace was, and remains, the center for political life in the United Kingdom, just as it remains a major iconic landmark of London. Many articles and books have been written discussing and disputing the history and design of the New Palace of Westminster, as well as the...
...rchitecture into the early neo-classical/ baroque style. Wren’s style was one of simple magnificence. His style was composed more of in agreeable proportions rather than glorious decoration. Wren was believed to have contributed design ideas for many buildings for which he did not do final designs. Wren’s design concepts were carried into the early years of the eighteenth century by fellow architects, Hawksmoor, and his partner Vanbrugh. However, Wren’s relative simplicity, and his “Protestant plainness” in comparison with European “Popish” richness, was dominated in their designs by superimpose of rich applied decoration and a more complex and extravagant style.
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In 2013, Architect Magazine, ranked MIT’s Architectural program #2 among graduate schools in the USA. As it builds up its prestigious reputation in Architecture, MIT has tried to inspire its students to be creative and fanciful in their projects through the unique buildings that they have on campus. The Stata Center, an academic complex designed by Frank Gehry , originally got a lot of attention, because of its novel appearance. Critics said it was a good act of self-expression, and its complex design was a good representation of the intellectual capacity of the scientists that were going to be working there. Likewise, Simmons Hall -a residence hall designed by Steven Holl- finally got the entire freshman class to live on campus, which was something MIT desperately needed. These buildings, among many others at the MIT campus, are built precisely as inspirations for their architectural students. As Thomas P. Hughes - a professor at MIT- once noted, MIT has celebrated their buildings as “expressing the inventiveness, energy, and excellence of the people within them.” However, it certainly seems as though the buildings were built solely focused on their appearance, as they have turned out to be neither efficient nor cheap. These two buildings have caused so many problems that they have not proven to be a good representation of the innovative minds at MIT. Even though the appearance of the buildings represents forward-thinking architecture, they nevertheless result in extra construction time, cost inefficiencies, and experiential and structural malfunctions.
It is from this background that Regent’s Park has its roots. The London Baptist Educational Society was founded in the much more liberal London of 1752, developing into a collegiate establishment in 1810 on a site acquired in Stepney. The college became affiliated with the University of London and moved t...
The first sign of a new architectural era was seen in Britain. With the production of new materials, Sir Joseph Paxton was able to design the Crystal Palace (1850-1851, 1852-1854) which boasted an intricate lattice frame work of prefabricated iron and glass panels set into wooden frames. The Crystal Palace served as a greenhouse with an impressive square footage of 770,000, the largest structure within its time. This structure was a monumental one and exhibits Britain’s advancement in the development of superior steel.
At this point, Mary is sitting at the edge of a pond at “Oxbridge,” a fictional university meant to suggest a combination of the names Oxford and Cambridge, two major British Universities. Mary begins to think about the projected thesis statement, when she is interrupted by a beadle (security guard). He informed her that women are not allowed to sit in the area unless accompanied by a male student.