The campus of Columbia College collectively would have to be labeled as eclectic or thrifty. There's all these buildings that were all built at different times for different purposes, somehow functioning together as one whole unit. Ideologically this can be seen as resourceful (buying the buildings in the area and converting them to suit a common need) or as cheap/greedy (buying the buildings in the area and converting them to suit a common need, instead of building a new campus, renovating the buildings, etc.)
Only a few of the buildings seem to work for their intended purposes. The ACC building probably has the only sufficient elevator to student to class ratio out of all of them.
Common sense fights with ideologies. Common sense tells us that there should be more elevators in the 624 building, but this would counter the said 'thrifty' ideology that dominates Columbia.
Monday, March 17, 2008
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But how does this repurposing of space fit in with Columbia's ideology of the "urban campus"?
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