The Collegiate Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and Eero Saarinen

Kathleen Brousseau

Ralph Adams Cram1863-1942

Oxford University

Cambridge University

Cope and Stewardson, Princeton University, Blair Hall, 1896-1898

Ralph Adams Cram, Graduate College, Princeton University,1909

Eero Saarinen1910-1961

Walter GropiusBauhaus

Eero Saarinen, Yale University, Ezra Stiles and Morse Colleges, 1962

“The greatest assets that a university has are beauty and harmonious surroundings. In a

sense, universities are the oases of our desert-like civilization…as the monasteries of the Middle Ages, they are the only beautiful,

respectable pedestrian place left.”

“ a place where the community life and spirit were supreme, the rest secondary: a citadel of learning and culture and scholarship.”

“citadels of earthly, monolithic masonry buildings.”