Sunday, June 12, 2005

CMU Campus in my view

Reference: CMU walking tour

Posner Hall
The Tepper School of Business in Posner Hall is ranked among the country's top 10 business schools.


Hunt Library houses more than 600,000 volumes and is the largest library on campus. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Arthur Hunt, benefactors of the building, requested that nothing be built between the library and Forbes Avenue until after the year 2010.


Hamerschlag Hall houses the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and laboratories for the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The building was renamed in 1965 for Arthur A. Hamerschlag, first president of Carnegie Institute of Technology.




Wean Hall is home to School of Computer Science, the departments of Mathematics, Physics, Materials Science and the Engineering and Science Library. My office is in this huge building as well.




Baker Hall is the home of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, which includes the departments of Economics, English, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Social and Decision Sciences, Statistics and Modern Languages. It also contains the Department of Engineering and Public Policy. It was one of the original buildings designed by Henry Hornbostel for Carnegie Tech. Legend has it that the building was designed with a sloped hallway, so that if the school wasn't a success—the building could be converted into a factory with a gravity-operated assembly line.


Porter Hall is the oldest building on campus, (completed in 1906). Its long sloping hallway permitted easy transfer of heavy machinery to and from laboratories and workshops. Porter Hall houses the Department of Civil Engineering, the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and parts of the Electrical and Computer Engineering, Design and History departments.


College of Fine Arts is one of the most beautiful buildings on campus. Inside, you can find plans of world-famous buildings inlaid into the floor. The lobby floor displays plans for St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, while the ceiling features paintings and other great contributions and contributors to the world of art. CFA houses Carnegie Mellon's well-known programs in Architecture, Art and Music.









3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

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8:59 PM  
Blogger greeness said...

Hey, I shot in RAW image. And I am just using photoshop to fine-tune exposure value, color temperature, brightness, saturaration and sharpness for each RAW.

9:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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5:29 PM  

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