{"id":14049,"date":"2016-02-22T15:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=14049"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:53:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:53:27","slug":"blog-traces-history-of-paterson-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2016\/blog-traces-history-of-paterson-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog traces architectural history of Paterson Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Blog traces architectural history of Paterson Hall\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The local blog, Urbsite, features a history of the modernist design of the original three buildings on campus in the 1960s. The blog opens:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>杏吧原创 University&#8217;s recently updated master plan is recommending the demolition of Paterson Hall &#8211; one of the first three buildings that formed the nucleus of the Rideau River campus. With it will go the last remnant of 杏吧原创&#8217;s modern architectural foundations. This section of undulating blue brick wall is all that survives from that era of pure abstract boxes so arrogantly imposed on a site that had been blessed by shorelines, trees, topography and natural open spaces.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Looking calm, cool and collected, 杏吧原创&#8217;s original quadrangle was one of Canada&#8217;s sleekest assemblages of modern buildings. The trio of Tory (science), Paterson (arts) and MacOdrum (library) framed an elevated podium landscaped to look like a Miro painting. Grassy terraces stood along the fourth side. The stylish confidence of these structures belies a tortuous history &#8211; each of these buildings had its own crisis of funding and design. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the rest of the blog, including descriptions of Paterson&#8217;s moat, crinkle cut blue walls, and inside\/outside spaces, and the design history of Tory Hall and McOdrum Library, see&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/urbsite.blogspot.ca\/2010\/02\/last-stand-for-carletons-early-moderns.html\">http:\/\/urbsite.blogspot.ca\/2010\/02\/last-stand-for-carletons-early-moderns.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-large wp-image-3876\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Paterson-Hall-small-400x129.jpg\" alt=\"Paterson Hall drawing\" class=\"wp-image-3876\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Paterson Hall was one of the first buildings constructed on the campus in the early 1960s. The History Department is located on the 4th floor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local blog, Urbsite, features a history of the modernist design of the original three buildings on campus in the 1960s. The blog opens: 杏吧原创 University&#8217;s recently updated master plan is recommending the demolition of Paterson Hall &#8211; one of the first three buildings that formed the nucleus of the Rideau River campus. 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