A Frank Gehry Campus Design T

Architect Frank O. Gehry's campus-like design of the Law School of Loyola Marymount University has been called "his finest work yet" (Goldberger, 1985, p. 55). While designing the new campus for the law school, Gehry was concerned with creating something which incorporated "traditional urbanistic norms" (Scully, 1988, p. 271). In other words, the architect wanted to build something which was not out of context with the surrounding urban environment, but rather blended in with the drab and nondescript commercial buildings which line the side of the law school facing the vehicle traffic on Olympic Boulevard. The law school's faculty members had also expressed their hope that the new buildings would look permanent and incorporate some symbolic references to the history and traditions of law (Gehry, 1985, p. 220).

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rooms and administrative offices on the second floor, and the faculty offices on the third and fourth floors (Goldberger, 1985, pp. 46-55). The side of the Burns building which faces Valencia Street is painted gray. Gehry intentionally made the street side of the Burns building very plain because he did not want to "upstage the neighborhood or the [nearby] Martin Building" (Gehry, 1985, p. 13), which includes a few semi-dilapidated, turn-of-the-century houses mixed together with large rectangular, decaying apartment buildings and banal industrial warehouse-like structures. In Phase II of the program, three separate, simple wood-framed buildings were constructed to house classrooms which would seat 80 to 120 students. A small non-denominational chapel was also built during this phase. The tower of the chapel (as well as the over-scaled columns in front of the moot court building) were specifically designed to evoke rather than imitate classical monuments. Gehry thereby helped achieve the faculty's goal of building a campus that somehow made reference to the traditions and history of law. Also, Gehry designed the campus to look like a modern acropolis or Roman Forum, which coincidentally meshed with the law school faculty's
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