Falwell drove to the Carter Glass mansion, a brick cottage on a hill overlooking the university.

FORBES: Falwell's Last Days

"Monsters University" is set on a leafy campus with brick buildings and cobblestone paths, "monsterized" to include fanged archways and spiked domes.

WSJ: 'Monsters University' Teaches Pixar About Prequels

He also saw the functional and commercial vernacular of Liverpool as a source for a more familiar and time-tested kind of design, and he began to use local materials, like red brick, to modify the structural glass and steel of the university buildings at Cambridge and Leicester done in the late '50s and early '60s, without sacrificing the radical rethinking of program and space that modernism encouraged.

WSJ: Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling, Architect and Teacher, at the Yale Center for British Art | Postmodernism's Pivotal Figure | By Ada Louise Huxtable

Soon we were on Route 116 and out of Amherst proper, and this, too, was familiar the small brick ranch houses that housed the Asian grad students at the state university, and the student laundromats and the family-owned greengrocers and the tiny, poorly stocked nonchain video stores in which you couldn't ever find the movies you wanted.

NPR: Chapter 1

His ambitious plans for a new computer lab for MIT, the world's leading electronics research university, combine both elements to create a complex of crazy buildings clad in traditional brick with steel-clad classrooms and meeting rooms.

BBC: Gehry: King of pop architecture