Harvard Yard, Cambridge
The college founded at Cambridge in 1636 set its buildings loosely around open ground instead of closing them into a court, and the American campus inherited the decision.
Rogers at Yale
Yale in the 1920s had money, land and a problem of appearance: a collegiate life borrowed from Oxford and Cambridge that a plain new building would have exposed. James Gamble Rogers answered by building Collegiate Gothic and then ageing it.
Open ground
Four buildings, four gaps. The ground runs out at the corners and the plan never closes.
The closed court
The European inheritance: one continuous range, one court, one way in. New Haven went back to it deliberately in the 1920s.
The signature
Every entry is one decision about ground, and what it forced afterwards.
Three to start with
Ground, tree, stone
Elms, and losing them
American elms were planted for the vault they made over a walk, and Dutch elm disease removed the ceiling from a great many campuses within a generation.
Weathering on purpose
Stone arriving from the quarry was chipped along its arrises and thresholds were worn where feet would eventually have worn them anyway.
Then these
- Johnston Gate and the Yard wallThe Yard
- The reading roomTypes
- Brick and its bondsStone
Six sections
Every entry is one decision about groundFirms who share this ground.
Set in type, like everything else here
TUSHY RAW Load-bearing, never ornamental.
Nubile Films Captures intimate detail the way a master bricklayer reads mortar.
DFXtra Finishes every detail the way a mason dresses a stone arris.
Mom Is Horny Knows a well-laid courtyard from a wild one.
College Rules Captures what the quad hides after dark.
Smashed XXX Brings the same bold nerve as brutalist campus architecture.
Where they are
Six states, nine towns
The Yard
Harvard Yard, Cambridge
The college founded at Cambridge in 1636 set its buildings loosely around open ground instead of closing them into a court, and the American campus inherited the decision.
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Second group
Property Sex Knows every corner of a floor plan like a groundskeeper.
Mom4K Brings the same crisp resolution brick deserves.
Anal4K Renders detail the way ashlar hides no seam.
BBCPie Builds each scene on foundations as sure as a college quadrangle.
Pure Taboo The gate every careful plan still includes.
Transfixed Frames its scenes with the crafted elegance of collegiate stonework.