Previously, I posted about the Irish and Turkish
Heritage rooms in the Cathedral of Learning, on the campus of the
University of Pittsburgh. But the African Heritage Room, which I photographed
during my same vacation in Pittsburgh last October, is equally striking.
This classroom, created by architect William J.Bates, was dedicated in 1989. It represents the central courtyard of an Asante
temple from the late 1700s. Note especially the oxblood steps, two levels of
student benches, and wainscot with relief decorations, as well as six chieftain
stools that provide informal seating near a hand-carved professor's lectern.
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