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摘要
女性宿舍需要一个便于优雅监控的计划。密歇根大学的玛莎·库克大楼(York & Sawyer, 1911 - 1915)体现了20世纪早期关于性别、种族、阶级和高等教育的思想。这栋宿舍楼是为了纪念捐赠者威廉·w·库克(William W. Cook)的母亲而命名的,它狭窄的一端有一个主入口,一扇门面向街道,旁边是一间护士长办公室。不久之后,密歇根大学(University of Michigan)建造了一座男子宿舍,由同一位赞助人出资,由同一位建筑师设计,但采用了楼梯平面图,这减少了对学生的控制。有人可能会认为,资助豪华宿舍的捐赠者的动机是促进以女性为中心的教育。相反,库克利用建筑为社会排斥服务;他反对亚洲人和贫穷的女人住在宿舍里,想象着优雅的半公共房间会教化粗野的年轻人。就像奥伯林学院的情况一样,女子宿舍是整个校园的社交中心。
The Coed's Predicament: The Martha Cook Building at the University of Michigan
A women's dormitory required a plan that facilitated genteel surveillance. The Martha Cook Building (York & Sawyer, 1911–15) at the University of Michigan manifested early twentieth-century ideas about gender, race, class, and higher education. The residence hall, named in honor of donor William W. Cook's mother, had one main entry on its narrow end, with a door facing the street and a matron's office adjacent to it. When the University of Michigan built a men's dormitory soon after, paid for by the same patron and designed by the same architects, it used a staircase plan, which afforded less control over the students. One might think that a donor who funded a lavish dorm would have as his motive the promotion of woman-centered education. Instead, Cook employed architecture in the service of social exclusion; he objected to the presence of Asians and poor women in the dorm and imagined that the elegant semipublic rooms would civilize brutish young men. As had been the case at Oberlin College, the women's residence hall served as the social hub for the entire campus.