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and Arcliitecture
A&M campus buildings display both uniqueness and uniformity
i By Stuart Hutson
I The Battalion
[ For the first 10 years of its existence,
the college now known as Texas A&M
University was composed of only two Vic-
torian-style buildings and a series of
crudely built wooden shacks.
Back then, the two red-bricked build
ings held all the functions of the college
— from dormitory residences for stu
dents and faculty to the kitchens and
classrooms.
Today, A&M comprises more than 100
buildings and boasts a series of architec
tural designs ranging from early Victorian
to modem, yet still maintains a simplistic
and somewhat “bland" atmosphere that
screams hack to its early beginning as a
military based institution.
“The A&M campus is unique in its
overall atmosphere,” said Buillermo
Vasque/ de Velasco, coordinator for
A&M's master’s degree program in archi
tecture. “There are buildings with differ
ent design aspects, but it has almost an en
tirely uniform feeling that is low-key.”
Vasquez de Velasco said the campus,
with its uniform color scheme and lack of
exterior design, follows the “rational” idea
that often accompanies military-style ar
chitectural planning.
“Almost all of A&M was built during
the modern era of architecture, which be
gan at the beginning of the century,”
Vasquez de Velasco said. “This encom
passes ideas such as ‘less is more,' but also
allows for some deviation for fun. For ex
ample, Norman Rockwell had these won
derful cantilevered buildings that worked,
but didn’t need to be that way. A&M kept
the down-to-earth ideas, which are often
related to militarism, but very rarely in
corporates the extras.”
David Chapman, Texas A&M
archivist, said the “institutional tan” col
oration of A&M buildings was probably
first used around the time the Academic
Building was built.
. “They were first going to build just a
quadrangle where all the buildings "were
close to the same color,” Chapman said.
“From there, they just kept branching out.”
Vasquez de Velasco said that A&M has
what he calls a “good human or pedestri
an scaling,” meaning that the buildings are
shorter and spaced well apart with a lot of
foliage to mask the buildings.
“This basically means that you can feel
comfortable walking near the buildings,”
Vasquez de Velasco said. "They do not
overshadow or tower dominantly over
you. You feel comfortable around them
and walking next to them. In a big city
where everything around you is huge and
close together, you are fine driving in your
car. But the moment you get out, you feel
dwarfed.”
The low-key presence of the A&M cam
pus, while not as immediately impressive
as other campuses with outrageous build
ings, may serve important functions for the
students and faculty of A&M, as well as for
the surrounding community.
“Bryan and College Station are small
er communities to begin with,” Vasquez de
Velasco said. “So, a university as big as
A&M may just overwhelm both of them
with its tremendous size. The low-key
construction of the campus doesn’t impose
itself on the landscape, and thus helps it
blend in better with the surrounding area.”
Ultimately, the University has taken on
its present incarnation because it follows
the needs and wants of its residents.
“One of the most important rules of ar
chitecture is that the form of the buildings
follow the functioning of those inside
them,” Vasquez de Velasco said. “The fac
ulty and students here are probably most
comfortable with the design. It reflects
them and who they are. I purposely am
avoiding the word ‘conservative,’ because
that is not what the students and faculty
are. But they are rational and traditional.”
Although they may all be the same col
or, Chapman would like to remind stu
dents that the buildings are definitely not
identical.
“The architectural design of A&M is
anything but uniform,” he said. “A&M
never kept with a single style. They built
whatever was popular at the time.”
These styles include the ultra-modern
layout of the new library annex, to the
Beau Arts (a French combination of clas
sical and Victorian) design of the Acade
mic Building, to the Romanesque design
of the Pavilion.
“All you have to do to tell the ages of
the buildings is to walk around the
campus and take a look,” Chapman
said. “Some have been around since
close to the beginning, like the Acad
emic Building, while others scream
’70s, like the biochemistry building.”
Two buildings with design differences
that are probably apparent to everyone are
the Student Recreation Center and the
Langford Architecture Center.
“The Rec Center is probably the most
impressive example of architecture re
cently build on the campus,” Vasquez de
Velasco said. ‘The elements on the mas
sive entry way are carried from the outside
to the inside, creating a sense that you
are not completely in an enclosed en
vironment.”
Vasquez de Velasco said the ar
chitecture building itself also
holds many interesting design
features.
“This building was ac
tually designed to be a
learning tool to those in
side of it,” he said. “It
contains many features
of architecture not
found elsewhere on
the campus that stu
dents may observe
and learn from. One
of the more inter
esting features is
the large atrium that
you don’t really
find in any other
campus building.”
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