United States Air Force Academy 美国空军学院 Colorado Springs, Colo., US 位于美国科罗拉多州斯普林斯
Kevin Lippert, publisher of the Princeton Architectural Press, picked this campus because it is "a masterpiece of mid-20th-century American Modernism, rather than something in the traditional Collegiate Gothic or Oxford style". He adds: "Many of the buildings are clad in aluminum, suggesting the skin of airplanes, and the Cadet’s Chapel there is often called one of the most beautiful buildings in America, collegiate or otherwise". 普林斯顿建筑出版社的出版商凯文•利珀特选择了美国空军学院。理由很简单,因为它是“20世纪中期美国现代主义建筑的伟大作品,与传统的学院哥特式或牛津风格毫无关联。”他还补充说道:“很多建筑的外层都覆有一层铝合金材质,以暗示飞机机身,尤其是它的地标性建筑,军校生礼拜堂,无论是在大学建筑还是其他建筑中都可谓是全美最美丽的建筑之一。” |