University of Chicago's development announcement last week (involving Jeanne Gang) has everyone talking dorms, and so archicritic Lynn Becker went all the way back to the first known university dorm in ancient India to trace the philosophy behind student housing and its evolution in form. It's an interesting tack, if a little overindulgent. Next up in Becker's series: 100 years of dorms on the U of C campus. [ArchitectureChicago PLUS, previously]
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