Southeastern Massachusetts University - Scrimshaw Yearbook (North Dartmouth, MA)

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SMU is a university born in the sixties. Its university status and organizational style were formed between the founding of SMTI in 1960 and the creation of SMU in 1969 A visiting architectural historian would reach the same conclusion: this building complex, despite its recent classroom additions, could have been designed in no other decade. When our visiting historian approaches campus, he senses that he is stepping back into the past. It is as if he is seeing some mis- placed space station stuck in a time-warp: the year is 1966. In that year, Paul Rudolph, then Chairman of the School of Art and Architecture at Yale University and a well-known and outspoken architect of national stature, oversaw the comple- tion of the first phase of his master plan for Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute. He would later, in a talk delivered in 1979, compare this campus design with such ar- chetypal urban plans as Sienna, Italy. The compelling integrity of its medieval town square is caused by the tower of the Palazzo Pubblico which throws an invisible enveloping canopy over the entire space below. The tower organizes and controls the focus of the streets which empty into the square. In the same way, he insists, the SMU campus is controlled by the campanile, around which the corridor between Group I and Group ll pivots on its way to the pond below. Its greenspace is carefully, systematically, removed from service accesses. This, Rudolph declares, is nothing less than the prototype for town planning of the future. This is quite an ambitious role for a jumble of cement col- umns and overhanging ledges we often see as the unavoidable reminder of our collective discomfort. Why should these buildings, which to some are invested with the sensitivity of a DeviI's Island Mess Hall, warrant such notoriety? K Continued on next pagej f ff . I I N t Q 'fm 5 . -gt.. c X il a . 6 4. 1 , 'E A 1 I f ,, J , .. H , W ..V.. . . , I 'S ' y L ,,,, f ' , s si -r 'aa Q7 Q. - 'l r ' . r - Nz. S .-fa. v , ci, ,,,,, - . , K.,-ag51 -. c, Jw M' 7- K ' Sv- jxwv fx 1 .' x .. , , ' 7 T, H- x .. l A A v J 5.1: ? 4 X 47 f A 4, V1 g ,xg X 1 I fi, ,M -,M K., 'D ,. M 1. -, X .. W' Q . 1 an - B x n, 'Qixgm -x pc mai 413, iv . X as -.H s .f H as sg-at ff' 'sings' 9- -Nr' ' .Lf 'W .xf q-.f lx 5. ' - ' N 'ak fl gl 'gg' ' 3 5, 3 N il'-S. it A. g TKNJSR V. ,Q ,f Q Q, xx, , ,hwy Vxzq u k . ngazz, I 1 120 lf.,-,, ff :: v-JFQQ, f , ' MX -453, ,m.,,'f.,- J -.. 'f--. 'xw gk T ,ft ' Q. . 'H '-. 'yn 4- . fftwqwx- 1 f Aff.-4-1 -. 'Rt 'Tiki' H- I b 14 W 3l1? 'P! X 'W-ol? ' '-.fjh . ,..--S T 4