Making It Modern:
Wheaton College and the International Style
Wheaton College is known as the quintessential brick-and-ivy New England campus, but beyond the classic Georgian quad that surrounds the Dimple, Wheaton's built environment tells a different story. This program, drawn in part from a student-curated campus exhibition in the spring of 2009, will trace the development of the Wheaton campus from its founding in 1834 to the present, with particular emphasis on the shift from traditional architectural styles to the iconoclastic principles of Modernism. According to Professor Tripp Evans, Wheaton's development in the last century "not only tells us a great deal about the institution's evolving character, but … also serves as a valuable case study of the changes that happened in twentieth-century campus design more generally." |