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Campus & Community
Looking up
Dexter Gate greets visitors to Harvard Yard with the inscription: “Enter to grow in wisdom.”
Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer
Photos offer fresh angle on campus
Perspective is everything. As we cautiously emerge from our pandemic mindsets, why not take a moment to look up? Delight in the angles and curves of the buildings and leafy canopies that we normally dart past, heads in our phones, minds elsewhere. Details come into focus — the way the columns of Widener Library frame Memorial Church, the vivid buds on branches in spring, the inscription on Dexter Gate. Here’s what a Harvard photographer found when she pointed her camera skyward from Longwood to the Arboretum to Harvard Square.
The Northwest Science Building is dynamic from every angle.
The entrances to the Center for Government and International Studies’ northern building and Northwest Science Building pair well with their warm slated materials.
Arches decorate Austin Hall at the Law School and Memorial Church in the Yard.
The Carpenter Center, designed by Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier, with its signature ramp, meets the Harvard Art Museums, redesigned by Italian architect Renzo Piano.
A tree canopy stretches to heights in Arnold Arboretum, and red buds blossom over the Barker Center.
The New Research Building at the Medical School and the Kresge Building at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health are shining grids of glass and stone.
Visitors approach William James Hall and the Lab for Integrated Science and Engineering Building.
The Center for Government and International Studies Building Complex brings light-filled spaces to the scholarship within.
