Hi everyone, today I have decided to create a set of articles about the most beautiful college campuses in America. Of course, when you are choosing a college that is right for you, you are not thinking about its campus in the first place. But you will spend quite a lot of time there, so sometimes a beautiful and functional campus can be the deciding factor in choosing a college.
My first article will be about Sonoma State University. Commonly called SSU, Sonoma State, and Sonoma, the university is one of the smallest of the 23 state university campuses in California. But it’s pretty impressive and the most requested campus of the CSU system.
It occupies approximately 269 acres on the east side of the main suburban area of Rohnert Park, California, United States. The main campus is located approximately 10 miles south of Santa Rosa and 50 miles north of San Francisco.
The original buildings of the university and those built in the same style, namely, The Student Union, The University Commons, Evert Person Theatre, and Stevenson, Darwin, Ives, Nichols, and Carson Halls, were all designed to highlight an appreciation for urban architecture. As such, the buildings are all constructed using mainly smoothed or exposed aggregate concrete with some buildings preferring primarily redwood siding. The residential villages, though they were meant to continue in this tradition, show the first movements away from this plan as they employ stucco siding with terra cotta tile roofs.
Moving further from the original plan are Salazar Hall, the Schulz Information Center, and the Campus Recreation Center. These buildings mark a notable movement toward sustainability and modernized architectural aesthetics as opposed to the smooth concrete buildings of the past that were allegedly designed by an architect known for the designs of several women’s prisons.
Today’s college campuses have been designed to aid students when it comes to such problems as security and convenience. So, choose wisely.
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