Another New Building by a Dead Architect?

Lawrence Biemiller of The Chronicle of Higher Education is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College and he's not happy that there's another new building on that campus designed by an architect who's ben dead since 1938. (Sort of.) His post has stimulated a nice discussion on the Chronicle's Buildings & Grounds Blog:

There's no question that Franklin & Marshall has an attractive campus. Many of the buildings are appealing, and the ones that aren't—mostly on the residential quadrangle—are at least well landscaped. Klauder and his imitators get a fair portion of the credit for everything I like about the place. What nags at me, though, is the sense that the college is entrenching itself in the architectural past. The only truly modern building on the campus—the College Center, by Minoru Yamasaki—was completed just before my freshman year, and that was 1976. No academic department at a college of Franklin & Marshall's calibre would think of cutting itself off from advances in its field the way the college has cut itself off from advances in architecture.