Pictures from the American University of Beirut ca. 1958

• Green Campus surrounded by the city.
• University Library -- Jafet Memorial Library.
• Architecture school (foreground) and Bechtel Building of School of Engineering (background).
• University Observatory.
• Alumni Club.
• Statue of Daniel Bliss, Founder, in University Library.
• College Hall, oldest building seen from Athletic Field.
  After recent destruction by a bomb, College Hall is being re-built in the original form. Ironically it will be now the newest building on campus.

These pictures have been mirrored from Wassim Jabi's archive (gopher://libra.arch.umich.edu/11/AUB) at the University of Michigan to make them more easily accesible for European users. Here 's Wassim's text:

This directory contains seven images from the campus of the
American University of Beirut, Lebanon.  I include them here
as a tribute to my alma mater and so that the world
may get a glimpse of how beautiful the University and Beirut are.
I pray that they once again become the beautiful places
they once were.

Wassim Jabi, Ph.D. Candidate
Doctoral Program in Architecture
The University of Michigan

wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu

Bachelor of Architecture, American University of Beirut, 1987.
Master of Architecture, University of Michigan, 1989.