SCUP Resources
Campus Heritage Knowledge Community connects more than 300 professionals interested in campus heritage preservation, using a state-of-the-art, Lyris-based email list.
Campus Heritage: An Appreciation of the History and Traditions of College and University Architecture by Richard P. Dober 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. – Here’s an audio slide show by Lawrence Biemiller about this SCUP book - http://chronicle.com/media/ flash/v53/i40/oldmain
Old Main: Fame, Fate, and Contributions to Campus Planning and Design by Richard P. Dober describes the forms, fame, and fate of Old Main, arguably higher education's iconic architecture. The accompanying graphics, including a visually delightful collection of historic picture post cards, help support the premise that a rounded view of America's collegiate enterprises would be incomplete without understanding and acknowledging the contributions these magnificent masterworks have made to campus development.
Other, related books published by SCUP include Campus Planning and Campus Design.
In October 2007, SCUPs Pacific Region held a well-attended one-day symposium at Portland Community College in Oregon, titled "Renovation or Replacement? The Dilemma of Mid–Century Campus Buildings." You can locate a PDF of that event’s final program here.
Other Resources
Google News: "Campus Heritage"
Wikipedia: Historic Preservation
Wikipedia: Architectural Conservation
Wikipedia: Adaptive Re-use
The best resource for information about specific campus heritage buildings, plans, and landscapes among the 750 member organizations of the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) is its comprehensive Historic Campus Architcture Project Website.
The Getty Grant Foundation had a program in place from 2002 through 2007 which awarded nearly $14M in support of campus heritage preservation in a series of about 90 grants, most to about 85 campuses. SCUP has located the following, resulting reports and campus heritage plans, and placed them in a single blog for your reference:
Campus Heritage Preservation Links (blog):
- Allegheny College (PA)
- Columbia College (Chicago)
- Geneva College (PA)
- Grove City College (PA)
- Northwestern College (MN) Historic Preservation Plan
- Reed College (OR)
- Salve Regina University
- Slippery Rock University (PA)
- University of Arizona's Preservation Plan and Manuals
- University of California, Berkeley's Landscape Heritage Plan
- University of Florida
- University of Georgia System's Campus Historic Preservation Plan Guidelines
- University of Minnesota, Morris' Historic Preservation Plan
- University of New Mexico's Campus Heritage Preservation Survey
- University of Oregon Campus Heritage Landscape Plan
- University of Virginia Historic Preservation Framework Plan
Other Books
Stipe, Robert E. (ed.). A Richer Heritage: Historic Preservation in the Twenty–First Century. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Tyler, Norman. Historic Preservation: An Introduction to its History, Principles, and Practice. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000. |
Forthcoming SCUP Events
SCUP’s annual, international conference and idea marketplace is of much broader scope than campus heritage preservation, but the campus– and company–based professionals it draws make it likely to be the largest annual gathering of individuals with an interest in campus heritage preservation.
The next such event is in Portland on July 18–22, SCUP—44: Values and Vision Create the Future
The online archives of previous events contain many abstracts of campus heritage–related presentations.
SCUP—43: Discover! Global Perspectives, Local Strategies
SCUP—42: Shaping the Academic Landscape: Integrated Solutions
SCUP—41: The Campus of the Future
SCUP—40: Planning • Linking • Learning
SCUP—39: Hard Choices . . . Smart Planning
SCUP/AIA–CAE Excellence in Planning Awards – These awards recognize the accomplishments of those who advance the causes of higher education through excellent planning and design; many involve elegant campus heritage preservation solutions:
The 2007 Awards
The 2006 Awards
News
Ann Arbor Observer - "Unbuilt Michigan"(PDF) by Fred Mayer
The Chronicle of Higher Education – In addition to feature and other articles, the Chronicle covers a lot of related stories in its Buildings & Grounds Blog, and also posts wonderful narrated slide shows by Lawrence Biemiller, such as:
Facilities Manager – The magazine of APPA: Leadership in Educational Facilities Inside Higher Ed
Preservation Online – The online magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
University Business
www.universitybusiness.com
Other Places to Go
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
www.achp.gov/
APPA: Leadership in Educational Facilities – the leading association of those engaged in facilities management on college and university campuses
www.appa.org
American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Historic Resources Committee
www.aia.org/hrc_default/
American Society of Landscape Architects’ (ASLA) Historic Preservation Professional Practice Network
host.asla.org/groups/hppigroup/documents.htm
The Association for Preservation Technology International (APT)
www.apti.org/
Association of University Architects (AUA) has a subcommittee representing its members’ interest in this topic.
www.auaweb.net/
Boston Preservation Alliance, notable for its October 18, 2007 conference.
www.bostonpreservation.org/
CEFPI – Where great schools begin is a professional association of institutional facilities managers focused on K–12, but with some resources for higher education.
www.cefpi.org
The Getty Grant Foundation’s Campus Heritage Grants Project
www.getty.edu/grants/conservation/ campus_heritage.html
National Council for Preservation Education
www.uvm.edu/histpres/ncpe/
National Trust for Historic Preservation
www.nationaltrust.org/
PreservationDirectory.com
www.preservationdirectory.com
PreserveNet
www.preservenet.cornell.edu/index.cfm
Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada
www.pc.gc.ca/docs/pc/guide/nldclpc- sgchpc/index_E.asp
World Heritage Sites
http://whc.unesco.org/
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