 |
The book cover shows Rafael Viñoly's Icahn Laboratory. "Dramatic light filters in through the louvered vertical 'blinds' that create a dappled pattern on the floors and walls," Cotton writes. photo: Princeton University, Office of Communications, Brian Wilson |
 |
The book cover shows Rafael Viñoly's Icahn Laboratory. "Dramatic light filters in through the louvered vertical 'blinds' that create a dappled pattern on the floors and walls," Cotton writes. photo: Princeton University, Office of Communications, Dale Cotton |
 |
Clouds and neighboring trees reflect in the glass curtain wall of Sherrerd Hall, one of the newer buildings on campus designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners. photo: Princeton University, Office of Communications, Dale Cotton |
 |
"Princeton Modern: Highlights of Campus Architecture from the 1960s to the Present," a new book on the University's modern architecture, contains more than 90 full-color photographs of building exteriors and interiors by author and photographer Dale Cotton. This image of Robertson Hall, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, shows the nearby Scudder Plaza with magnolia trees in bloom. photo: Princeton University, Office of Communications, Dale Cotton |
 |
This staircase in Hoyt Laboratory, designed by Davis Brody and Associates, is inside the pie-shaped fire escape -- the building's most prominent feature. photo: Princeton University, Office of Communications, Dale Cotton |
 |
Wu Hall, designed by Venturi Rauch and Scott Brown, features a round arch and large bay with an "oculus" (round opening) and "mullioned" windows that allow natural light to enter. photo: Princeton University, Office of Communications, Dale Cotton |
 |
"Like an Igor Stravinsky composition for ballet, counterpoint and contradiction dominate the exterior: saw-toothed rooflines are juxtaposed against sloping steel profiles and brick boxes; soaring towers confront horizontal rooms; shiny steel embraces light-color brick," Cotton writes of the Gehry Partners-designed Lewis Library. photo: Princeton University, Office of Communications, Dale Cotton |
 |
Natural light floods the atrium in the Hillier Group's Bowen Hall. photo: Princeton University, Office of Communications, Dale Cotton |