Lattie F. Coor Hall

Named in honor of ASU's fifteenth president, Lattie F. Coor Hall was officially dedicated and opened on January 7, 2004. The building created new space for classrooms, open computer labs, research, survey research, special purpose facilities, and offices. This facility is also equipped with state-of-the-art mediated classrooms, which are an essential support requirement for ASU's instructional mission. It houses the departments of Political Science, Philosophy, History, Sociology, Chicana/Chicano Studies, and Speech and Hearing Science. It is also home to the Institute for Social Science Research, the Centers for Latin American Studies, Russian and East European Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Asian Studies.

Text fragments and letterforms, etched on the glass façade of Lattie F. Coor Hall, are part of the latest, and largest, work of public art on campus. Chicago artist BJ Krivanek, commissioned by project architects Gensler and Jones Studio, selected letters from several Latin-based, Native American and Asian languages, as well as numbers and punctuation marks, to represent the universal potential of language. He designed the building so the text fragments are cast on an inner, opaque wall.

This project was funded by the university's Percent-for-Art program, which instructs that one-half of one percent of all new construction costs be set aside for public art.