"Putting a wing on the Taj Mahal"

This past Sunday’s New York Times Magazine had a long article about one of the biggest architectural endeavors to hit Mr. Jefferson’s University in more than fifty years, the South Lawn Project. The project is riddled with controversy because of the University’s reluctance to deviate from the Jeffersonian architecture that has made UVA one of the more architecturally unique campuses in the nation.

"Word in Charlottesville had it that Polshek's office — which had won national renown for such widely praised modernist projects as the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock and the Rose planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History — had become frustrated by the school's refusal to approve any design that did not hew to a strict Classical palette of arches and columns."

One thing that I really like about UVA is the architectural consistency throughout the "grounds." Whether you are visiting the Law School or Darden in the North Grounds or walking around the UVA Medical Center, there is a consistent architectural feel that permeates throughout. It is paramount that this be preserved for future generations of UVA students.