The campus has a deep-rooted prestige as a place of teaching, learning
and nurturing. Conjuring images of cloistered quadrangles, of sunny
lawns, of wood-panelled libraries, it is a word viscerally charged with
centuries of scholarly tradition. And yet it is also a place of
cutting-edge science, vibrancy and energy. It is this dual nature, this
concurrent adherence to tradition and innovation, which renders the
physical environment of the university such a redolent, enduring and
dynamic realm. However, it also means that the twenty-first-century
campus is a highly challenging and exacting landscape to design and
manage successfully.
Today, the scale of the pressures and the rate of change facing higher
education institutions are greater than ever. Squeezed public spending,
growing societal expectations and the broadening education ambitions of
developing nations are set against a backdrop of rapid technological
progress and changing pedagogies. What are the repercussions for the
physical realities of university planning and architecture? And how are
university campuses adapting to contend with these pressures?
University Trends: Contemporary Campus Design introduces the most
significant, widespread, and thought-provoking trends that are currently
shaping the planning and architecture of higher education institutions
across the world. Within this completely revised third edition, Part One
identifies current patterns such as student hubs, large-scale expansions
and buildings for innovation and interdisciplinary research. Part Two
profiles these through recent, well-illustrated, global case studies.
This is the essential guide to current and future trends in campus
design.
