"Educatio Triumphans"

This celebratory campus entry highlights the arts and excellence in learning as the highest aspirations of an educational institution. My design consists of two domed pavilions connected by a triumphal arch. I drew heavily from Bernard Maybeck's Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, especially his use of an arched colonnade surmounted by a dome. On each pavilion, allegorical figures representing arts such as poetry, music, and literature recline beside the shield of the college. Above the central arch, two other figures sit beside a triumphant, enthroned allegory of Education, holding a book and a torch raised aloft. Each statuary group symbolizes the importance of the arts to the college, as well as expressing a vision of education as a light to the world.