PUBLIC SPACES PRIZED

摘要

By the end of the 1970s, architects of all persuasions were committed to the conscious shaping of public open spaces -a goal rarely addressed by earlier generations of Modernists. The campus of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, R.I., offered a prime subject for such an effort. RISD had grown by adapting a variety of existing structures and adding a few infill buildings. These were casually organized along streets that meander up College Hill from the riverfront toward the nearby Brown University campus.