Brutalist Architectural Walking Tour

​The UMass Amherst campus was established under the Morrill Land Grant in 1863. Today it is the flagship of the five-campus University of Massachusetts system, serving a community of approximately 30,000 in 13.4 million square feet of buildings. Its most significant enrollment growth occurred after World War II with over 10 million square feet of space built within 20 years with a change in scale from rural to a more urban campus consisting of dense neighborhoods and towers, based on the 1963 master plan by Hideo Sasaki. Making UMass a veritable showcase of Brutalism at its zenith, UMass Amherst commissioned the landmark Fine Arts Center (1974) by Kevin Roche (recently renamed the Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts) and Lincoln Campus Center by Marcel Breuer (1970) as well other key structures by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Edward Durrell Stone and Hugh Stubbins. The tour will start at the Fine Arts Center (Kevin Roche, 1973), and walk on the campus grounds, viewing Herter Hall (Coletti Borthers, 1968), Whitmore Hall (Campbell & Aldrich, 1967), Southwest Residential Complex (Hugh Stubbins & Assoc., 1965-68), Tobin Hall (Coletti Borthers, 1972), Dubois Library (Edward Durell Stone, 1972), Lincoln Campus Center (Marcel Breuer, 1970), and Lederle Graduate Research Center (Campbell, Aldrich & Nulty, 1971-1973).

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You must sign up, below, in order to secure your place on the architectural tour.

You will receive additional information about the tour a few days prior to the event. If you are no longer able to take part in the tour, please contact admin@construction.org immediately so that your slot may be given to another attendee.

Only registered attendees of the 2022 Women Who Build Summit can sign up for the tour. If you are not registered for the 2022 Women Who Build Summit, your name will be removed from the tour list without notice.