University Trends: Contemporary Campus Design

A university campus is a place with special resonance: conjuring images of cloistered quadrangles and wood-panelled libraries, often echoing centuries of scholarly tradition. And yet it is also a place of cutting-edge science, interactive learning, youth, vibrancy, and energy. It is this dual nature which makes the physical environment of a university so dynamic as well as a highly challenging 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, rising tuition fees and the growing 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 introduces the most significant, widespread and thought-provoking trends in campus design today. Part 1 identifies current trends such as starchitecture, large-scale campus extensions, adaptive re-use, and international branch campuses. Part 2 profiles each trend via highly-illustrated, global case studies of well-publicised as well as lesser-known projects. The essential guide to current and future trends in campus design.

Table of Contents:
Preface  Part 1: The Twenty-First Century Campus  Part 2: Case Studies  Adaptive Re-Use  Starchitecture  Hub Buildings  Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Buildings  Joint-Venture Buildings  New Universities Beyond the West  Transnational Education  Commercial Urban Developments  Large-Scale Campus Expansions  Revitalizing Master Plans  Notes  Index  Picture Credits

About the Author :
Jonathan Coulson and Paul Roberts are directors of Turnberry Consulting, a London-based development strategy consultancy created to assist landowners to develop real estate projects driven by quality and functionality. Both Coulson and Roberts have extensive experience working within the university sector, preparing and delivering development proposals and master-planning initiatives for institutions including the University of Oxford, the University of Hertfordshire, Coventry University, and Cranfield University.　 Isabelle Taylor read the History of Art at the University of Cambridge and Courtauld Institute of Art. The three have previously jointly authored University Planning and Architecture: The Search for Perfection (2010), a historical study of the architecture of universities from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.　

Review :
'The authors have a wide knowledge of campus design across the world, much of which is based on advising universities in Europe, North America and Australasia. They possess a unique and practical "hands on" perspective of the real issues universities are currently grappling with. This book will be essential reading for university administrators, facilities and estates managers, designers and planners.' - John Miller, Principal, Hames Sharley Architects, Australia 'University buildings are still the most studied, visited and quoted examples of ground-breaking architecture. University Trends is an important survey of the latest thinking in design for learning and research, supported by detailed case studies of the most significant new buildings on an international stage.' - Russell Brown, Founding Partner, Hawkins\Brown, London, UK 'Higher education and research are vital parts of modern society. The physical environments in which they take place contribute enormously to the experience of students and researchers. With this very welcome publication, the authors could now be regarded as leading experts in comparative university architecture.' - Professor Stephen Parker AO, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canberra, Australia