Campus Design

by Richard P. Dober

This book shows how a campus is defined through its physical image. Buildings and landscapes are designed to communicate the institution's purpose, presence and domain as well as generate an image charged with symbolism. Design principals, methods, and procedures with wide applications are described. Two key design components, placemaking and placemaking, are used as the basis for numerous case studies. Originally published by John Wiley & Sons in 1992, re-published by SCUP in 2003.

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ISBN 0-9700413-3-0

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Table of Contents

Prospectus

Placemarking

Landmarks
    Landmark Buildings
    Old Buildings/Continuing Life
    Designating Landmark Buildings
    Site and Landscapes as Signifier
    Landmarks Other than Buildings

Style
    Style as Concept and Choice
    Available Styles
    Style and Fashion
    Categorizing Style for Campus Designs
    Campus Designs Extended

Collegiate Georgian
    Johns Hopkins University
    Harvard Business School
    Brooklyn College
    Southern Methodist University
    Style as Romance

Collegiate Gothic
    University of Chicago
    Duke University

20th Century Styles

Late 20th Century Styles

Materials
    Materials: Marking not Styling
    Harkness Quad/Morse and Stiles Colleges
    Materials: Metaphors of Time
    Concrete: Beginnings
    Concrete: The 20th Century Trademark

Strengthening Referential Campus Designs
    The Vernacular and Other Choices
    The United States Air Force Academy
    RIT: Unity and Variety
    Thematic Variations
    Auraria Higher Education Center
    Post's Protean Project
    Barnes' Binder

Materials: Design as Proclamation
    Keble College
    Beginnings and Implications
    Keble's Cause
    Social Context
    Cueing on Keble
    Keble Designs

Materials: Codes/Canons/Contradictions
    Brick as Brick

Materials: Bearers of Meaning
    The College of William and Mary
    Stanford University
    Hokie Stone
    The University of New Mexico
    University of Colorado, Boulder

Landscapes
    Gentle Be the Hand
    Nature's Imperatives
    Campus Greens: Lawns and Trees
    Lawns Spatially/Symbolically/Aesthetically
    Contrasting Notions and Imageable Effects
    Special Places: Science as Landscape
    Art in Landscape
    Design for Movement through Landscape
    Michigan's "Diag"
    Path Design
    Ecology and Climate as Placemarkers
    Landscape Taxonomy
    Park as in Parking

Placemaking
    Types of Plans
    New Campuses
    Sector Plans
    Inserts and Add-ons
    The Brown University Model
    Regeneration Plans
    Placemaking Process
    Nine Step Placemaking Process
    Establishing the Campus Plan Agenda
    Implementation
    Design Cycle Considerations
    Costing

Summary

Sources and Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

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About the Author

Richard P. Dober—Senior consultant at Dober, Lidsky, Mathey, and Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in campus planning and facility planning services. Trained at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, Dober has served as a campus planning and design consultant to over 345 colleges and universities worldwide as to foundations, government agencies, the World Bank, and UNSECO. He is a founder of the Society of College and University Planning and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.