Named after a street named after 7th Viscount FitzWilliam. Founded 1869 as Fitzwilliam Hall by the Non-Collegiate Student Board. Changed name to Fitzwilliam House in 1924. Full college status in 1966. Sister St Edmund Hall Oxford. Men and Women – Undergraduates 450 Postgraduates 308.
Fitzwilliam College, know as ‘Fitz’ started life in 1869, with the specific aim to widen access to further education for gifted people from outside the established independent (fee paying) schools. It grew from the Non-Collegiate Students Board and was originally based in Halstead House, later named Fitzwilliam House, opposite the Fitzwilliam Museum in central Cambridge. The house provided an office for the tutor and a study centre to students who would have had lodgings in town.
Today the college sits on a tranquil eight-acre site in north west Cambridge, radiating a contemporary style created by many striking modern buildings standing in a series of gardens. It is home to around 300 postgraduates and 450 undergraduates and is a 20-minute walk away from the market square. The college has nurtured its founding rational, presenting itself as one of the university’s less traditional and more working class friendly foundations. The state school intake of home students over the last few years has averaged57%. Despite being first admitted in 1979, women have been in a substantial minority in recent years. Several fears were expressed when the college decided to become co-educational, but these were quickly seen as being misplaced, causing one female student to write: ‘The integration of women into this male preserve at least has been highly successful. Not only have very few problems arisen, but also the atmosphere in college has been greatly enhanced.’
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...owerful concrete structure on London’s south Bank, was commissioned to provide schemes. In 1963 he completed the homely brick courts and central building. New Court was added in 1985 and Wilson Court in 1994 with the final frontage, the Gate House Court, being completed in 2003.
Award winning design
New Court was designed by Richard MacCormac and won much approval within the city council, who gave it an award. The same architect provided designs for the acclaimed chapel, which received several awards including one for the craftsmanship of its woodwork. The interior is bathed in natural light filtered by the delightful east window and clever roof glazing.
Fitzwilliam’s beautiful grounds are hidden behind the extensive college buildings and remain quite secret, allowing a huge colony of squirrels to go about their daily life untroubled – pretty much like the students.
Charles attended Brentwood School in Essex which is father was headmaster of but in 1894 Charles changed schools to Clifton College before winning a scholarship to Hertford College in Oxford in 1898.
The authors research the “college and party life” that is associated with students through the perspectives of women. Due to paradoxical experiences in places of higher education, the study chooses to focus entirely
The hall was designed by a land surveyor from London named John Thorpe. Construction of the hall started in 1618 and despite the hall being incomplete, Sir Thomas Holte and his wife, with several of their sixteen children moved in, in 1631. Four years later, Aston Hall was complete.
Cambridge House was officially opened on December 17th, 1989. The facility was built to support residents living with high care needs to meet their full potential with activities. This aged care operates under St Vincent’s Health Melbourne.
The house was built in 1917 by William Bowers Bourn, a San Francisco millionaire whose wealth came from gold mining . Construction of the large property took 2 years, while it took 12 years to build the formal gardens, which were completed in 1929. Its name was created by Bourn, using the first 2 letters from the key words of his credo: “Fight for a just cause; Love your fellow man; Live a good life.” After the deaths of Bourn and his wife in 1936, it was purchased by William Roth, another prominent San Franciscan, who pr...
Despite varied opinions about the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition, an event designed to confirm the friendly relations between France and Britain as described in the Entente Cordiale, there was collective praise for the Court of Honor. The full grandeur of the Court can hardly be felt by an image. As visitors entered from the main gates of Wood Lane, the Court of Honor was their first impression of the fair. The largest in Britain to date, the Exhibition occupied 140 acres of Shepherd's Bush in west London, an area now known as the "White City" due to the white plaster of the fair's structures.
...nal Expansion Memorial. Inside the building museum exhibits can be found. It now currently is being preserved by them to remind everyone of a fine example of nineteenth-century architecture. (“Old Courthouse Architecture”)
Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in The Vicarage, in Down Ampney, on October 12, 1872 to Arthur and Margaret Vaughan Williams. Ralph’s father; Arthur was the vicar of the All Saints Church in Down Ampney in 1868. Through his mothers side Ralph had two famous great-great-grand fathers; Josiah Wedgwood, the founder of the pottery at Stoke-on-Trent, and Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of Charles Darwin. In 1875 Ralph’s father suddenly died, when he was only two years old. His mother moved him and his two siblings to the Wedgwood family home: Leith Hill Place, in Surrey.
Haverford College did not begin as the institution that it is today. A group of concerned Quakers constructed the secondary school on the premise that it would provide a fine education for Quaker young men. On its founding day in 1833, the Haverford School's notion of a "liberal and guarded education for Quaker boys" became a reality. Jumping forward in time to 1870, a decisive change was on the horizon: the faculty and students had voted to go coed. However, the Board of Managers did not concede and Haverford remained single sex for over a century after the students and faculty had spoken. It wasn't until 1980 that a freshmen class comprised of both men and women entered Haverford. Yet it is the decade prior to 1980 that is the topic of this paper. The series of about 10 years before a Haverford female student would unpack her belongings in her room to settle down for four years of an intense and demanding education, both in and out of the classroom, was a time of much reevaluation and consideration on the part of the students, administration, and faculty.
The architect of the Supreme Court Building is Cass Gilbert. He was the president of the American Institute of Architects from 1908-1909. Gilbert was most commonly known for designing the Woolworth building in New York City. The architecture of the building is called Neoclassical. Neoclassical architecture is the revival of the classical style from Greece and Italy. The purpose of the Supreme Court Building is to determine the Constitutionality of laws in the US. Some other intentions of the building are to settle arguments between states and to interpret the Constitution. "The Supreme Court Building is the ultimate arbitrator of the Constitution...
Summerson, John. The Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood; a short account of its history and architecture. London: English Heritage, Iveah Bequest, Kenwood. 1951.
The church's architecture over all is simple. It is 24 by 34 square feet and set on a stone wall. It is a frontier style cabin and is made from hand hewn logs, which are notched at each end so that they fit together snugly at the corners. The roof is shingled...
In their book Paying for the Party, Armstrong and Hamilton discuss how universities take class differences and class projects of distinct women to define what will be their college experience. In their book, Armstrong and Hamilton define class projects as individual and class characteristics that defines a person’s agenda and class- based orientation. Hence, people with similar class projects, not only shared the same financial and cultural resources, but also the same expectations toward school. (Armstrong & Hamilton, 2013). As a result, Armstrong and Hamilton claims that students with similar class projects end up becoming a collective constituency and a representative group for the university, whom in turn must take their interests to form a college pathway for them. Therefore, a college pathway for Armstrong and Hamilton refers to how universities are able to take successfully the interests, class characteristics and expectations of students to mold within the organizational and architecture context of the school. In a way, each college pathway is built not only to represent, but also to provision and guide the different types of students in a college.
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.
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