LETTER to the EDITOR: Reader challenges new Housing plan

As a former Aggie I like to keep track of what’s happening on the ever changing campus in Logan. Imagine my surprise when I read about a new “living center” on Old Main Hill. I am not concerned about the location of the new housing, but rather the awful architecture. The university missed a wonderful opputurnity here to be creative and possibly a little forward thinking.

The choosen architecture has no “style”, it’s out of context and is deplorable. Mimicking Old Main is not an architectural solution to a problem, rather it is simply copying what is next door.

I almost fell over laughing when I saw the little “A” on top of one of the buildings in the new housing project. Why doesn’t the university just put a putt-putt course on the Quad?

The excuse for this horrible “style” is to create a sense of “home.” How can you feel at home when your home is an exact copy of the neighbor’s?

I sinerly hope that the University wakes up and one day finishes a building with a little bit of creativity. Maybe, just maybe, the little Logan campus can become something more than a land grant school stuck in the turn of the 19th/20th century.

Steve Jones

Seattle, WA

University of Washington

Master’s of Architecture Student