Campus Heritage

This monograph offers ideas, insights, and information about campus heritage.  It describes and illustrates the contributions campus heritage can make to promote, strengthen, and support institutional goals and objectives and outlines suggested methods of incorporating campus heritage in campus plans, facility plans, and campus design concepts.

$25 USD member/$35 USD nonmember, ©SCUP 2005
ISBN 0-9760413-8-1         

Table of Contents

Stakeholders

Campus Heritage Defined

Heritage Architecture
    Intention and Chance
    Interventions

Style as Heritage
    Materials As Heritage
    Figurative Elements
    Adaptive Reuse
    Old Main
    Legacies
    Historic Districts and Sectors
    Heritage Centers

Heritage Landscapes
    Green Heritage
    Site Origins and Originals Sites
    Heritage Gardens
    Heritage Walks and Gates
    Heritage Trees
    Benches
    Timemarkers
    Forms and Contents
    Sun Dials and Clock Towers

Heritage Sculpture
    Campus Art as Heritage
    Expression and Style
    Trophies and Transient Themes
    Commissioning and Location
    Emblems

Place-Naming

Names and Heritage
    Integrating Campus Heritage into the Campus or Sector Plan

Table 1: Criteria for Naming

Table 2: Campus Heritage Checklist

Index of Heritage Cited Campuses

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About the Author

Richard P. Dober—Senior Consultant at Dober, Lidsky, Craig, and Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in campus planning and facility planning services. Trained at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, Mr. 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.

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