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- | ======Fine Arts Center====== | ||
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- | **Constructed**: 1975 and 1999 | ||
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- | **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 ===== | ||
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- | <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. | ||
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- | 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). | ||