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New Hall started its life in a pioneering, post-war spirit as the third foun-
NEW HALL first REPRISE
dation for women and admitted its handful of undergraduates in 1954. When I came up seven years later as its first architecture student,
the college was already a remarkable place, not least because it was not actually a 'place' at all. Scattered across Cambridge in five or six large
A quarterly review of current a rch itectu ral, u rbanist a nd environmental issues and events in the Cambridge area
houses, its very dispersion was a physical embodiment of its outward-
produced by the Cambridge Assoc i ati o n of Arch itects.
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Catherine Cooke
looking atmosphere. ln today's world of virtual communities that dispersed model would be