{"id":3618,"date":"2019-10-17T11:49:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T15:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.porticomagazine.ca\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2020-10-28T14:40:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T18:40:07","slug":"time-capsule-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/2019\/10\/time-capsule-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Capsule: 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"
U of G\u2019s South Residence was considered state-of-the-art when it opened in 1968; it remains one of the largest student residence complexes in Canada.<\/p>\n
The complex is among campus buildings highlighted in \u201cBrutalism at Guelph: Concrete in a new light<\/em>,\u201d an ongoing exhibit in the McLaughlin Library about U of G\u2019s late-sixties building boom that reshaped the campus.<\/p>\n The exhibit highlights the beton brut (\u201craw concrete\u201d) style of South Residence, Lambton Hall, the library, and the MacKinnon and MacNaughton buildings.<\/p>\n The display was assembled from library archival materials by art history and landscape architecture students in an experiential learning course.<\/p>\n The students chose this photo taken from inside the newly built South Residence to illustrate the exhibit.<\/p>\n