Post-Rotten-ism

Within a few paces of the first (classy) Rice building from 1912, today's introductory events were held in this heinous, eye-popping piece of tripe.
The only thing more feeble than it's interiors are the creator's self-congratulatory remarks: "The public found that it was everything a building ought to be - and even more... It had big columns and capitals... all of the big columns are service ducts, called 'robot-beams' and 'robot-columns.'" uhhh... yeah... so much for Brits being articulate.
The latin term horror vacuii, meaning "fear of blank spaces," could have been invented for surface noodling this desperate. The colors in the image below are about half as saturated as the actual building.

Duncan Hall / John Outram