Social Sciences & Humanities Building — Attraction in Davis

People may complain that the design is confusing and makes people get lost - and they are exactly right. What you might not know, however, is that this confusion is by design, in order to foster human interaction by asking others for directions. Whether that actually happens on a regular basis is uncertain. Regardless, I say the architectural design is fantastic for one sole reason: there is a hidden spire / vantage point on the north side, which I only found by complete accident and have not been able to find again. That hidden alcove is covered in messages from other students who stumbled upon it, and it is one of my favorite...

Extremely difficult to navigate. The economics department is headquartered here, so I have had quite the experience trying to find professors offices, TA offices, advisors offices, classrooms (SSH 70, 80,90 are just so grey and miserable), also had SSH 1100 (or whatever the number is for the big lecture hall) is really grey, dark, and miserable. SSH 1100 often has hundreds of students in first year classes like ECN 1A, MAT 21A,...

The easiest building to get lost on campus, horrible designs. It’s aways a waste time looking for offices in this building. I once spent 20 minutes looking for Anthropology building, which they have no signs and information provided online or nearby. How unthoughtful if them! They should have signs and arrows if they decided to designed a building...