For much of its first 100 years, the University of Western Ontario, in London, was a relatively small outpost of Canada’s public university system. Founded in 1878 and situated at the fork of the Thames and Medway Rivers, the campus consisted almost entirely of Collegiate Gothic halls of modest scale. But the D.B. Weldon Library—designed in the Brutalist style by renowned Australian architect John Andrews, with local practice Murphy, Schuller, Green and Martin as part of an ambitious expansion of the campus—marked a dramatic departure from that existing character.
Andrews, born in Sydney and mentored by José Luis Sert at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, would go on to design the GSD’s Gund Hall (1972), Toronto’s CN Tower (1976), and many other projects in both North America and Australia.
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