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, 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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