Daniel Elsea on campus planning: "Maybe it’s time to retire the campus plan as we have known it. In its place should be a more outward-looking type of plan where the often much more significant and complex issues pertaining to the university’s context are given just as much importance as to what has carefully been planned within." https://lnkd.in/ewSCPW4x
John J. Parman
4mo
Every campus plan I ever worked on took account the larger context. The problems arise when someone, whether it's a chancellor or a donor, grabs the wheel and turns the exercise into an ego project. An example here was the Global Campus, which luckily died quickly but sparked a competition that should never have happened. Only the local team noted that the proposed site made no sense. The usual fools rushed in, waving their all-purpose PPTs.
Architect. Entrepreneur. Motelier.
4moI know that when campus buildings get near to the end of life, if they were integrated in the town fabric, would make great starter assets for business owners in the community. It’s a shame common assets aren’t planned for their entire lifecycle. I think the campus form accelerates decay, in some ways.