MODERN MANNERS

摘要

The renewal of our universities, with their deeply rooted collective traditions, has become a key battleground in today's campaign to roll back the influence of image-driven egotism in architecture. As recently as five years ago, proud civic universities were happy to commission new campuses in the form of gestural, 'iconic' clumps and shards, but today the emphasis is on reinvesting university architecture with the ennobling sense of social decorum that characterised not only the 18th and 19th centuries, but also the modern movement of the 20th century.