Society for College and University Planning

The Future of Campus Planning and Design: Spotting Trends from this Year's Design Award Submissions

Program Overview

Gain insights from the design and planning approaches culled from the numerous entries to the 2009 SCUP Excellence in Planning, SCUP Excellence in Landscape Architecture, and SCUP/AIA-CAE Excellence in Architecture Awards.

Jurors from this year’s awards competition will discuss observations and trends that raise a college, university, or project to the top of the list as distinctive, forward thinking, and of noteworthy caliber.

The physical campus is knitted together by the quality of its planning and design. Colleges and universities have different approaches to creating a fabric which functions for their own campus.

Campus planners, architects, and landscape architects will find this program essential to understanding how leading edge institutions are using innovative approaches to tackle current planning issues.

If your background is not in planning, architecture, or landscape architecture, you will learn about capital planning and design issues that your peer institutions are facing, and gain insight from their planning approaches and solutions. What is great work? Understanding what constitutes good planning and good design can strengthen the quality and productivity of your internal conversation.

Handouts will include the presenters’ PowerPoint images and other supportive articles for your reference.You can visit the SCUP Awards website to see images and read about the most successful projects ahead of time.

Learning Outcomes:    

• Discover how institutions are including sustainable design strategies in their master planning in a holistic way, implementing integrated design solutions on their campus
• Observe how 21st century planning is unveiling new planning paradigms—challenging the old paradigms of historic master plans
• Examine how campus master plans are responding to climate change and regional conditions and the impact on conservation in landscape design
• Discover how projects contribute to a sense of place on campus
• Recognize distinctive innovations in campus planning, architecture, and landscape architecture
• Discuss the relationship between buildings, landscape, and planning, and how they work together

Who Should Attend?

• Campus planners
• Architects
• Landscape architects
• Physical and facility planners
• Campus administrators who work with architects and consultants, or who oversee capital planning on their campus

We recommend that you watch this program with your team and use it to stimulate dialogue on your own campus.

Moderator:

As principal at ZGF, Tom Fortier assists institutions with planning, programming, budgeting, scheduling, and implementation. He has contributed to numerous successful planning and award-winning design projects, and is a skilled project leader who manages an interactive and collaborative design process. His professional focus has been on higher education facilities on college and university campuses, including Stanford University, University of California at Santa Cruz, Oregon State University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Oregon, George Fox University and University of Idaho. Fortier is a LEED accredited professional, and is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, the Society for College and University Planning, and the American Association of Museums.

Presenters:

Trends in Architecture:

Frances Halsband is a founding partner of Kliment Halsband Architects in New York City, known for their innovative work in architecture, master planning, historic preservation, and adaptive reuse for educational, cultural, civic, government, and private clients. With a particular expertise as a translator between institutions and design firms, Halsband has worked on over 35 campuses across the country as an award-winning designer, in a design advisory role, and as a member of academic community. Currently she is architect advisor for Brown and Harvard Universities and is on the Architectural Review Board of the Federal Reserve and the U.S. General Services Administration. She served as dean of the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute in New York, and has been visiting professor of design at many universities. Halsband received a Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University.

Trends in Landscape Architecture:

Mark Hough has been campus landscape architect at Duke University since 2000, Hough has overseen the site design of the campus during the largest period of growth since its original construction. He is responsible for project design, capital project design oversight, consultant selection, master planning, and the creation and implementation of campus site guidelines and standards. He is the chair of the ASLA’s Campus Planning and Design Professional Practice Network, serves as a frequent guest lecturer and design critic at the College of Design at NC State University, and is an active civic volunteer in his Durham, NC community, focusing on issues of appearance and public art.

Trends in Planning:

Laura Shinn is the director of planning in the Office of Facilities Operations and Development at The Ohio State University. Shinn oversees capital, space and master planning as well as the newly established renewal and deferred maintenance planning program for the University. Prior to joining The Ohio State University in 1998, Shinn was the Associate Director of Design at the Columbus Neighborhood Design Assistance Center. Prior to that, she worked in private practice as an architect specializing in historic preservation and accessible design. She received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia in 1985, a Master of Architecture in 1989 and a Master of City and Regional Planning in 2002, both from The Ohio State University.

Questions? Please contact Kathy Benton at kathy.benton@scup.org. 

artwork by Art Zendarski, "Mills College Pond and Music Building"