The Council of Independent Colleges: Historic Campus Architecture Project

Broad Hall

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Broad Hall (view from the southeast), Pitzer College

Broad Hall (view from the northeast), Pitzer College

Institution Name: Pitzer College
Original/Historic Place Name: Broad Hall
Location on Campus: center of campus
Date(s) of Construction:

1995	original construction Gwathmey Siegel & Associates

Designer: Gwathemy Siegel & Associates (New York)
Type of Place: Individual building
Style: Contemporary (Glossary)
Significance:
Narrative: see below
References: see below

Materials:

Foundation: concrete; metal framing

Walls: drywall interior finishes

Roof: tar and gravel

Function:

1994-present (2006)	other (anthropology resource apprenticeship, social science interview room, offices of Summer Institute of Language and Culture, and academic computing)
1994-present (2006)	faculty offices
1994-present (2006)	other (laboratories: psychology, paleoanthropology, and languages)
1994-present (2006)	classrooms (computer)

Narrative:
Broad Hall was dedicated on November 14, 1994. It was named in honor of Pitzer's greatest benefactors, Life Trustee Eli Broad and his wife Edithye.

Broad Hall lies between Bernard and Mead Halls on the north side of Pitzer's central quadrangle. It is home to academic computing, a computer classroom, faculty offices, and the psychology, paleoanthropology, and language laboratories. Also housed in Broad Hall are the anthropology resource apprenticeship, a social science interview room, and the offices on the Summer Institute of Language and Culture.

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