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I really don't mean to ruin the party (honestly), but why isn't this in the "Texas" forum instead? Most people see the thread and think "how can I participate in this", unless they went to a Texas university.
I really don't mean to ruin the party (honestly), but why isn't this in the "Texas" forum instead? Most people see the thread and think "how can I participate in this", unless they went to a Texas university.
Thanks for your time.
I wanted everyone's opinion....not biased Texan Opinions.
SMU looks better than UT Austin....sorry but not sorry.
I believe SMU has been voted “Most Beautiful Campus” in the U.S. More than once. The Park Cities area of Dallas is pretty darn impressive.
A lot of Parkies must have voted on that poll then. SMU campus is pristinely manicured and pretty enough but there is nothing distinctive or even Texan about it : generic and derivative neoclassical buildings - looks like UVA lite. It would struggle to make my top 5 Texas campuses.
The list itself is weird: UTSA and TCU are both pretty ghastly architectural hodge-podges, and while the old parts of UT Austin are beautiful there is no shortage of UGLY on the 40 acres.
I would rank 'em this way
1. Rice
2. UTEP -the only campus with any kind of background scenery, and interesting if idiosyncratic architecture
3. The old part of UT - the six pack, the tower and some adjacent buildings
4. Texas Tech - some ugly, but the original buildings and design are great
5. SMU - pretty, but boring
Only Rice is a national contender in my aesthetic opinion.
In Tech’s case, I think every building on the main campus that they’ve put up in the last 20 years has been in the original Spanish Renaissance Revival style. There are still some structures that are out of place, but a rather large, prominent one was bulldozed last spring: the city of Lubbock’s coliseum/auditorium complex built in 1956. Even the health sciences center has a new SRR-style place.
Landscaping has been upgraded over the last 15 years.
In the works are another dorm and a $100M+ academic building, among other additions.
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