Earl V. Moore Building
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School of Music Building (Earl V. Moore Building)
1962–1964, Eero Saarinen and Associates. 1100 Baits Ave.
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This building was the most notable on North Campus when it was built. Surrounded by wooded hills and reflected in a pond, the building is in perfect harmony with its surroundings. Both exterior and interior walls are brick. Classrooms and sound studios on the main level employ a second-floor slab that appears to float on fiberglass over the structural concrete supporting slab. This isolates these studios and makes them soundproof. To the north is a two-story classroom and practice wing with a low horizontal promenade; to the south are the library, rehearsal, and recital halls. Narrow, full-length windows contrast with the horizontal patterns of brick.
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Location: Ann Arbor, MichiganRegional Overviews:Architect:Types:Styles:no metadata availableParent Entry: University of Michigan North Campus
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Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "School of Music Building (Earl V. Moore Building)", [Ann Arbor, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-WA11.1.
Print Source
Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 149-149.
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