Projects by Name

Beginning in 1967, Breuer and his partner Herbert Beckhard designed a campus center and subterranean garage for the University of Massachusetts. The ten-storey slab building of the campus center overlooked the campus pond to the south and was situated in the center of an elevated terrace with canted sides created by stairs. Breuer and Beckhard raised the building on square pilotis with the two highest floors containing the faculty and formal restaurants cantilevered out beyond the façade of the lower floors. To maximize space the architects placed a cafeteria, bookstore, conference and meeting rooms below ground. Breuer used variations in the modular concrete panel façade to distinguish between the programs of the various floors. The guest rooms and apartments of the second through fifth floors featured a façade of paired windows surrounded by thick faceted frames. Two horizontal rows of equally spaced windows marked the offices for university administration on the sixth and seventh floors, and gridded concrete screens placed in front of the windows characterized the restaurants on the eighth and ninth floors. Stair towers angled at the top and bottom extended from the windowless side facades.