Sports Center (1968-2009) - Northwest corner
Title
Sports Center (1968-2009) - Northwest corner
Subject
Sports Center - Exterior
Description
A view of the Sports Center taken from the northwest corner of the building. Snow has accumulated on the ground and on the top of the building.
The architect was Edward Dart (1922-1975) of the Loebl Schlossman Chicago firm of notable modernist architects. Dart later designed Water Tower Place (early 1970s), North Michigan Ave., Chicago, then the largest concrete building. Dart also was the brother of Lake Forest's Susan Dart, Mrs. John T. McCutcheon, Jr. The style of the building is self-effacing, to lower its impact on residential Sheridan Road to the east, to the rear of this photo. It relates to the brutalist later modernist style, with few windows or adornments to cal attention to itself. It was much more pleasing and successful for the forty years until it was expanded to the north in a much less self-effacing manner in 2009-2010.
For more on Dart and his work, see Susan Dart's "Edward Dart, Architect" (Evanston: Evanston Publishing, 1993).
"During the 1960's, as the student body was rapidly growing, there was a movement to increase athletics on campus. A commitee, headed by trustee Elliott Donnelley, funded the construction of Lake Forest College's Sports Center. Completed in 1968, the Sports Center was the largest building that Lake Forest College built during the decade" (Dustin Magill on Sports Center in "Lake Forest College: A Guide to the Campus," 2007, pp. 62-64).
The architect was Edward Dart (1922-1975) of the Loebl Schlossman Chicago firm of notable modernist architects. Dart later designed Water Tower Place (early 1970s), North Michigan Ave., Chicago, then the largest concrete building. Dart also was the brother of Lake Forest's Susan Dart, Mrs. John T. McCutcheon, Jr. The style of the building is self-effacing, to lower its impact on residential Sheridan Road to the east, to the rear of this photo. It relates to the brutalist later modernist style, with few windows or adornments to cal attention to itself. It was much more pleasing and successful for the forty years until it was expanded to the north in a much less self-effacing manner in 2009-2010.
For more on Dart and his work, see Susan Dart's "Edward Dart, Architect" (Evanston: Evanston Publishing, 1993).
"During the 1960's, as the student body was rapidly growing, there was a movement to increase athletics on campus. A commitee, headed by trustee Elliott Donnelley, funded the construction of Lake Forest College's Sports Center. Completed in 1968, the Sports Center was the largest building that Lake Forest College built during the decade" (Dustin Magill on Sports Center in "Lake Forest College: A Guide to the Campus," 2007, pp. 62-64).
Date
ca, 1970
Format
still image
Language
eng
Type
TIFF
Identifier
BLDG 1.30.2.1
Resolution
228 pixels per inch
Dimensions
3980 × 3190 pixels
Original Format
photograph
Physical Dimensions
25.8 x 20.3 cm (10 1/16 x 8 in)
