Uptown Campus West

Former DAAP assistant professor William Wesley Taylor, DAAP ’71, MA (DAAP) ’95, designed the French Hall addition while serving as chief designer for Wilson Associates. He is also the only African American architect to have designed a major building on campus.

Contact Information:

Center for Access and Transition
2441 French Hall West,
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0168
(513) 556-1661, CATAdvising@uc.edu

Related Info:

• UC Magazine: French Hall
• School of Social Work

French Hall is a contemporary structure that, literally, builds on the International Style of an older residence hall. This innovative building provides space for innovative programs to serve non-traditional students at UC. Center for Access and Transition serves underprepared students who have the potential to achieve bachelor's degrees.

French Hall is also home to the School of Social Work as well as many other UC programs and departments.

French Hall has been praised for its sleek design and for the way mundane features of the old structure are reinvigorated in the new.