Quote of the day: UIC's walls designed from the inside out

“There was a tremendous accusation that ‘Walter put walls around the campus to keep people out,’ and we put the wall in because we knew that black and white young people would be sitting on the grass together, and we were protecting them from the hostile eyes of the neighborhood. So it depends on whether you are looking in or looking out. We were in, looking out.”
–Architect Walter Netsch on designing the University of Illinois Circle Campus (UIC) during an extensive interview (PDF file) as part of The Art Institute of Chicago’s fascinating Chicago Architects Oral History Project.