Stanford University’s campus is a stately Californian milieu designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge—the Bostonian progeny of H. H. Richardson which just celebrated 150 years of practice. Its late 19th-century architecture harkens back to East Coast schools of an equal, albeit much older caliber like Harvard, Yale, et al. Later additions by SOM, William Wurster, SWA, and others dot the illustrious 8,180-acre locale.
A new administrative building at Stanford University by Olson Kundig and SWA takes cues from the campus’s “understated” midcentury modernism, architects shared. The new building hosts the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University, a
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