ABSTRACT
He thus had a firm conviction in the importance of architectural consistency. One of his first duties as president was the undertaking of a world tour, the purpose of which was to search ‘among the universities of the two hemispheres for the educational and architectural ideas that will be incorporated in the new university’.4 The Iberian peninsula, he recorded in a report back to Houston, ‘yielded most in the way of architectural suggestion. The winter climate strongly resembles that of Texas: bright sunshine and a clear sky and not too cold.’5 Lovett, then, had strong views on the physical format that the campus should assume, to an extent that his architects quickly found exasperating.
