I've seen a number of them and I'd have to say Denison would be tough to top, but I'm willing to give others a chance.

Kenyon College.  I'd say that Denison is a pretty close second.

I haven't been to very many of them but out of all the ones I've seen, I have to say Cincinnati for the architecture. I didn't really like BGSU, Ohio State is nice but its so big, it depends on what part of campus you're talking about. Miami's is beautiful.

Wittenburg. :lol: Well, maybe.

 

Miami is beautiful and without any 60's crap, but the architecture isn't fantastic.

KENT!

 

hahaha. I can say that cuz I went there.

I have a conflict of interest on this topic, so I will recuse myself from the discussion.

Who doesn't have a conflict of interest? lol Your avatar is making me want skyline. The one in Columbus closes way too early!

Kenyon College.

 

Second place, Denison.

 

Third place, Glen Helen/Antioch...until next year :(.

 

For large colleges, Miami University has the "prettiest," though OU has some nice areas too.

Tri-C's Metro Campus, of course!  Brutalism is in again, afterall.

Toledo actually has a surprising nice campus, especially the core area along Bancroft near UHall.

if you want a campus starchitecture tour try oberlin for the old masters and cincinnati for the latest.

 

otherwise, if i had to choose just one i tend to agree with evryone else on kenyon.

 

if you want to see some live music on campus my fav place is wittenberg....sometimes they would bring out sandwiches and stuff after shows in the fieldhouse. very private school cute!

 

 

Miami and Dayton, everything is brick.

AGREE WITH MIAMI!

I really like the setting of OU.  I can't say I've been to many other colleges in Ohio, aside from UC and OU.  Xavier has one of the worst however.  The brown and poorly executed medieval motif, coupled with the modest bungalows containing the finance office or the department of american studies or whatever makes for a pretty poor showing.

 

Tri-C's Metro Campus, of course!  Brutalism is in again, afterall.

 

I've found that in general I enjoy the Brutalist style.  Though would UC's Crosely Tower count as brutalist?  I don't think so.  I don't enjoy that building.

 

I think it depends more so on your tastes in architecture....beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 

 

I, for one, don't care for the ideallyic campus setting...blech.

 

To each their own  :drunk:

UC needs more trees, but so do a lot of other schools that are mostly new buildings.

I am biased but I am going with  OU, the  campus combined with uptown Athens and the hills can't be beat. The only downside are the South green buildings for the 70's that don't quite fit.

 

 

Progressive's Wilson Mills campus  :roll:

I personally think Case has a very beautiful campus.  I don't know how it compares to other ones in the state, though, because I haven't visited many.

I'd say that Case has a very unique campus. It has too many ugly buildings to really qualify as beautiful campus. But if you consider all the non-campus buildings in the area, then I see your point.

I always thought Raymond Walters was special....

If you forget that there are Northside dorms, Case has a wonderful campus...have they torn those dorms down yet?

 

But even as wonderful as it is, there are lots of prettier campuses in the state - lots of them...though toss in Severence Hall, the Lagoon and the Art Museum, and that's a tough trio to beat...

 

If you forget that there are Northside dorms, Case has a wonderful campus...have they torn those dorms down yet?

 

They have not torn them down yet. (its on one of those gosh darn master plans, which they just updated in the last year and I haven't looked at yet).

 

Have you seen the new Ones they built on E. 115th where the football fields used to be?

 

Case Mather Quad, Yay.

Case South Quad, 1960s monstrosities.

It'd be interesting to see these recent updates.

Have you seen the new Ones they built on E. 115th where the football fields used to be?

 

No...but then, I went there for two years and never saw the football fields...

 

Tri-C western

UC is my favorite.

 

But I'm an Urbanite.

 

Athens, OH

 

I've been to most colleges in Ohio at some point or another...Athens wins hands down...the trees and the hills are great.

No love for Wooster???

Tri-C western

 

Agreed.

UC is my favorite.

 

But I'm an Urbanite.

 

The more and more you post...the more and more I like you!

UC is my favorite.

 

But I'm an Urbanite.

 

The more and more you post...the more and more I like you!

 

Which means...the more likely he'll get banned.

^You love me, but I understand that you have to keep up your image...so it's all good.  :-D

I find Ohio State's Columbus campus to be very pretty and clean.  I also really like the urban feel of it.

^The south side is nice; the north side is trash.

Ohio State needs to clean high street across from campus! There is ALWAYS trash all over the ground.

I have always found Ohio State to be quite lovely, and its rejuvenated districts surrounding it only accentuate its character.

 

Can NKU count? :) :) :) :) :)

^If you like the prison look...

I'm somewhat of a fan of the brutalist style, but not when its excessive. NKU has realized that, and if you peek through their campus development guide, they acknowledge that and are working to build new structures that minimalize the "brutal" aspect but keep the same functionality, per se.

OU, Wooster and Kenyon are all great. As noted earlier, UC needs more trees. Ohio Wesleyan is also nice.

OU, Wooster and Kenyon are all great. As noted earlier, UC needs more trees. Ohio Wesleyan is also nice.

 

I will admit that Main Street could have had some more plantings on it, but the rest of the campus is actually a pretty good blend since they have finished the construction projects.  I wish I had an image of the new rooftop landscaping on top of Zimmer Auditorium or the newly redone Baldwin Quad.  These first three pictures show the Campus Green area...this whole area used to be a surface lot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow, a surface lot. Glad to see that go. I guess I meant more mature trees. All we can do is wait.

Ohio State University has a very large campus, so its hard to argue that it all looks great.  But the Oval and Mirror Lake are as pretty spaces as you'll find within a large city. 

^^ I had no idea UC had that! Or that was one gigantic surface lot. Very nice!

^^ I had no idea UC had that! Or that was one gigantic surface lot. Very nice!

 

UncleRando...changing the world; one person at a time.

way to go...rando!  but osu's campus is definitely best on the south side.  However, they have made strides on the north side.  The new physics research building, fisher, and that new smith lab have all helped north campus.  North is def. more 'urban' in terms of buildings v. green space but its def. not hideous by any measure.  ugh, i lived in the north campus dorms frosh year and have this whole reconfiguration drawn up for the area.  It could be so much more...:)

Before it was a parking lot is was Italianate row houses such as those that still exist in Corryville and on Bishop St. south of MLK.  So by leveling that housing area churches lost their parishioners and were threatened with replacement by Walgreen's. 

And I never understood why UC needs more or really any green space when, you know, Burnett Woods is right across the street.

 

OSU and UC similarly have a terrible problem defining their "new" edges, the areas where they've expanded in the auto era.  OSU facing Lane Ave. is totally hideous, the cable-stayed bridge is the work of Satan.  UC facing the utopic streets of Jefferson and MLK?  Similarly terrible, total aesthetic and functional chaos.  A pile of wet cardboard.     

 

Cable-stayed bridges are to arm chair aesthetes what Fun Dip is to a T-baller.     

Before it was a parking lot is was Italianate row houses such as those that still exist in Corryville and on Bishop St. south of MLK. 

 

When did this happen?

Most of the push north by UC happened in the post-World War II period. I think the last big push happened in late 60s and early 70s. From what I hear, UC has finally given up on developing more of Burnett Woods which once stretched up to Wilson Auditorium.

^I never really understood the mounds that now proliferate on UC's campus.  One thing that UC's campus is surprisingly bad at (and Burnet Woods is as well, for that matter) is bringing people into it, particularly from the corners (Clifton and Calhoun, Calhoun and Jefferson, Clifton & MLK, MLK & Jefferson).  I do think that the addition on CCM was inspired.