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-======Fine Arts Center======
-**Constructed**: 1975 and 1999
-**Architects**: Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and Associates, Hampden, Conn.  1999 lobby addition: Perry Dean Rogers and Partners, Boston, Mass.
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-===== Design and construction =====
-<html><div style="float:right; padding-left:20px; padding-bottom:15px;"><a href="http://www.library.umass.edu/speccollimages/referenceimages/RG150-0004250.png"><img src="http://www.library.umass.edu/speccollimages/referenceimages/RG150-0004250.png" alt="Fine Arts Center" style="width:220px; border:1px solid #333;" /></a>
-<br /><a href="http://www.library.umass.edu/speccollimages/referenceimages/RG150-0004269.png"><img src="http://www.library.umass.edu/speccollimages/referenceimages/RG150-0004269.png" alt="Fine Arts Center" style="width:220px; border:1px solid #333;" /></a>
-<br /><a href="http://www.library.umass.edu/speccollimages/referenceimages/RG150-0004265.png"><img src="http://www.library.umass.edu/speccollimages/referenceimages/RG150-0004265.png" alt="Fine Arts Center" style="width:220px; border:1px solid #333;" /></a>
-<br /><a href="http://www.library.umass.edu/speccollimages/referenceimages/RG150-0004272.png"><img src="http://www.library.umass.edu/speccollimages/referenceimages/RG150-0004272.png" alt="Fine Arts Center interior" style="width:220px; border:1px solid #333;" /></a>
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-This uncompromisingly modernist, poured concrete building consists of several distinctly different units that were intended to combine to form a powerful architectural sculpture.  The Fine Arts Center was conceived as a gateway to the campus at the south end of the [[p:pond|pond]], but its arcade also acts as a link between student housing on the east side of campus and the academic buildings on the west.  The lobby, constructed in 1999, respects the concept of a gateway to the campus by providing transparency through the extensive use of glass.
-The Fine Arts Center remains the most visible structure at the entrance to the campus.  On its lower floors, the building contains a major concert hall, a theater, recital hall, and a small experimental theater, while the large bridge above contains art studios.  The building accommodates the Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Departments, as well as the University Gallery.
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-==== Source ====
-  * From //Three Architectural Tours: Selected Buildings on the Campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst// (Amherst, 2000)
-  * For additional information, consult the University Archives (RG 36/101).