[Leon Lowenstein Academic Building, Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus.]
1974
[Leon Lowenstein Academic Building, Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus.]
Leon Lowenstein Academic Building, Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus, ca. 1974.
This 14-story Modernist building was constructed as the second building of the Fordham University Lincoln Center campus in 1969. The facade is raw concrete and the repeated rectangular windows give the building a utilitarian look, described by one modern writer as, " look[ing] like a prison or socialist government building...uninviting, boring and generally ugly eye sore."
Though it should be noted that many a modern building has inspired equal or more vitriolic criticism.