Fairfax apartments are a 15 minute walk from the College of Fine Arts.
I'm living in what's billed as the "Finest Apartments in Oakland". I think what they mean to say is most expensive...
Anyway i've been really quite ya-ya exploring the city and traipsing all over school.
Pittsburgh is a really quaint city with lots of fine-grain urban nooks and crannies. This is in Quiznoes, which doesn't serve the best sandwiches.
And this is the nice welcome CMU students make for freshmen and exchange students from Singapore.
I'M HERE!!! YEa, this is the famous CMU poster shot. With Hammerschlag Hall in the foreground and the Cathedral of Learning (in U. Pitt) in the distance. The modern concrete building to the right of it spoils the picture though.
and directly opposite, partaking of this monumental vista, is the College of Fine Arts, which is really more like the pearly gates and everything good like that. Its not a school. Its where schools go when they die.
The frieze reads: "Painting", "Sculpture", "Architecture", "Music" and "Drama". "Architecture" takes centrestage, but "Drama" has to have the last say.
So like, check out the themed alcoves in the facade:
"Painting". I'm not sure its related to the frieze inscriptions, but this is a very nice representation of the gothic.
"Sculpture". The 3 orders of Greek Columns! And the oculus overhead.
"Architecture". Clearly a tribute to the Pantheon. and the inscription is probably exhorting us, anciently, to "CREATE".
"Music". I'm tempted to say Baroque. But this one eludes me.
"Drama". Indo-Saracenic, Khmer, Assyrian, Mughal, Islamic, all the chapalang asian!
And here is a floorplan of the basilica i mean school.
And the very common looking vestibule / lobby.
Hallowed halls of learning. Like, you literally hear opera singers and choirs of angels echoing down the hallways.
And finally, studio space.
Crazy hor.
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