University of Massachusetts Amherst: Modernist Architecture Campus Tour in Collaboration with Docomomo

On Saturday, Oct. 29, Timothy M. Rohan, associate professor of history of art and architecture, in collaboration with Docomomo US, will host a walking architecture tour of the UMass Amherst campus from 2 to 3 p.m.

The tour will include buildings such as Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts (Kevin Roche, 1973), Herter Hall (Coletti Borthers, 1968), Whitmore Hall (Campbell & Aldrich, 1967), Tobin Hall (Coletti Borthers, 1972) and the iconic W.E.B. DuBois Library (Edward Durell Stone, 1972).

The tour is free and open to the public and no advance registration is required. Visitor parking is available at the Campus Center Parking Garage; the rate is $1.75/hr. and it is open 24/7.

In the generation following the Second World War, the University of Massachusetts Amherst engaged in one of the most ambitious academic building programs in the United States.

Following a 1963 master plan by renowned landscape architect, Hideo Sasaki, UMass Amherst employed some of the most distinguished architects of the time such as Marcel Breuer, Kevin Roche, and Edward Durrell Stone, who remade the campus in a distinct Brutalist style.