Royce Hall was completed in 1929, the largest of four original structures that form the historic core of the four hundred-acre UCLA campus. Designed to function as the main classroom and faculty office facility of the young university, the building presents a lively brick and tile essay in the Lombard Romanesque style that, in its reference to famous university cities of northern Italy, symbolized its academic and cultural aspirations in a Mediterranean campus climate. Today, the twin-towered f...