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VIEWPOINT: Defend the Transformers

VIEWPOINT: Defend the Transformers

By Victor Muresan April 30, 2023

The Georgetown community is grappling with a battle over the neighborhood’s iconic Optimus Prime and Bumblebee statues from the Transformers franchise, as the Old Georgetown Board (OGB), a federal commission...

Architectural Ancestry: Georgetown’s Buildings Blend Old and New

By William Leo January 19, 2018

Healy Hall and Lauinger Library, visible from both the Key Bridge and the front gates of Georgetown University, are what first come to mind when the words “Georgetown” and “architecture” are...

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Lauinger Library in 1970.

Lauinger: The Past, Present and Future of Georgetown’s ‘Ugly’ Library

By Pat Curran August 29, 2014

The low, sprawling District of Columbia skyline boasts few true icons. A Google search of the city’s skyline reveals exclusively shots of the National Mall and Tidal Basin. The Washington Monument...

Lau-chitecture: A Library Reimagined

Lau-chitecture: A Library Reimagined

By Lindsay Lee and Lindsay Lee October 10, 2013

The university has expressed long-term desires to renovate Lau, which many students consider to be the campus eyesore. We at 4E wanted to see what would hypothetically happen if one of these three famous...

ENGAGING BIOETHICS: An Approach to Ethics Rooted in Architecture

By Maggie Little and Ann Pendleton-Jullian September 24, 2013

What happens when a philosopher and an architect co-teach a class? This semester, we aim to find out. Focusing on a complex, real-world issue in bioethics, we are testing a hunch: Can we break through...

Listening to Architecture: What Georgetown University Says Today

By Andrew Toporoff February 8, 2012

Buildings and places tell stories. Their narratives reflect the forces that produced them and the values of the people within. They articulate ideas, providing a visual manifestation of history and shifting...

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