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GRAY concrete cliffs rise on a ridge above the Ontario woods 20 miles from downtown Toronto. This is Scarborough College, a new branch of the University of Toronto and John Andrews' only standing building. Another will rise behind Mem Hall in the next few years: Gund Hall, the new Graduate School of Design...
...Scarborough is John Andrews," said one student at the Ontario College last week. "Of course it's him, it is young, bold, and dynamic," agreed a designer who was closely connected with the design of the novel structure...
...Andrews is a master of form, as proven by Scarborough College, but he is only an architect as proven by Scarborough College. The building and the educational system must develop together. If the intention is to make this a collaborative effort there must be an interdisciplinary team. Mr. Andrews, working in the traditional architect-client-consultant framework, will have no alternative but to create an object d'art like Scarborough, or Yale's Arts and Architecture building. Such an event would be an anachronistic catastrophe and inconsistant with the awakening philosophy of environmental design present in the Graduate School...
...Many Scarborough students however, are reportedly less enthusiastic. Some have compared it to a "medieval fortress" (the entire complex is self-enclosed with interior streets running between buildings); others, "a power dam or the Maginot Line." Dr. David Abbey, a member of an educational study group connected with the University of Toronto, said in a September speech that student reaction to the structure ranges from "apathy to hostility...
Reached at his Toronto office yesterday, Andrews said that he does "not subscribe to style" and that Gund Hall will not necessarily resemble the Scarborough complex. He has not yet drawn any preliminary sketches...