Students Eating in the Cesar Chavez Student Center

Students sit at tables inside the Cesar Chavez Student Center, eating lunch and reviewing notes as sunlight pours through the building’s sharply angled skylights. The dramatic geometry of the interior—slanted concrete walls and long shafts of light—creates alternating bands of brightness and shadow across the floor, a signature feature of the “iceberg” design completed in 1975. In this warm midday scene, the Student Center serves its familiar role as both dining hall and informal study space, a place where the social and academic rhythms of campus life naturally blend.