Program Content

In this visually rich webcast, jurors from this year’s awards program will discuss observations and themes from all the submissions to the 2010 SCUP Excellence in Planning, SCUP Excellence in Landscape Architecture and SCUP/AIA-CAE Excellence in Architecture program. They will cite examples from the winning entries, as well as many other noteworthy entries.

Themes include:

• Large buildings on campuses with small building typologies
• Campus-wide infrastructure investment
• Adapting mid-century campuses
• Putting place ahead of style
• Noteworthy projects lacking campus context
• Social capital – the campus in a community role
• Villages

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 useful in understanding how leading edge institutions are using innovative approaches to address current planning and design 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.

This fast-paced one-hour program will offer an opportunity for questions and answers during the program. Do you have a question now for presenters that you recommend they address during the program? Email your question to webcast.question@scup.org.

Handouts will include the presenters’ PowerPoint images and other supportive articles for your reference. 

During this webcast, you will...

• Discover how institutions are including sustainable design strategies in their master planning in a holistic way, implementing integrated design solutions on their campus.
• 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.
• Observe current practices in repurposing and renovating mid-century buildings.
• Observe how select institutions are illustrating their commitment in social capital through their building projects.

Who Should Watch This Webcast

• 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 participate in this program with your colleagues and use it to stimulate dialogue on your own campus.