William James Hall, Academic building at Harvard University campus in Cambridge, United States.
William James Hall features four wide bays rising fifteen stories with a projecting slab roof and precast concrete panels set inside slender columns.
Completed in 1963, the $5.8 million structure was designed by Minoru Yamasaki to house Harvard University's expanding Behavioral Science Department.
The building honors William James, who established Harvard's first experimental psychology laboratory and taught the university's initial psychology courses in 1875.
The fifteen-story structure contains offices, laboratories, animal quarters, classrooms, and a library serving psychology, sociology, and social studies departments.
The building's facade presents a modernist departure from Harvard's traditional Gothic architecture through its minimalist concrete design and symmetrical elements.
Location: Cambridge
Architects: Minoru Yamasaki
Website: http://wjh.harvard.edu
GPS coordinates: 42.37720,-71.11340
Latest update: March 3, 2025 02:43
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