Why Not a Gate?

"Great welcome makes a merry feast", so wrote the Bard.

The campus feast might be a prospective student and parent at one end of the time scale and an alumnus returning for reunion at the other. In between are all those activities and events that animate everyday campus life. Entering and leaving campus can be a symbolic moment as well as quotidian passage to classroom, work, or event place. Along the campus boundary, a gate can communicate welcome emblematically and functionally. Gate design can help reinforce a sense of place.

A design such as the Brown University gate with its view to the Green evokes traditional New England. The gateway at Santa Fe Community college is constructed with shapes, materials, and the use of colors that are reminders of the region's culture and history.

Richard P. Dober