Ranging from adapted buildings to monumental blocks, from ensembles to detached works of architecture, university campuses the world over offer a diversity of student experiences while decisively shaping the lives and career trajectories of those within these settings. Yet, while the spatial expanses and formal characters of campuses clearly differ by region, geography, and national settings, few scholarly comparative studies have been conducted. Significant for architectural, urban, and landscape historians, the accretive combinations of building typologies, signature works, and public spaces that constitute these educational campuses represent sites of active design experimentation aligning with a complex menu of logistical and aspirational needs. How, then, are universities continuing to coalesce physical and functional campus–city interrelationships in today’s universalizing and consumptive environment as their search for built expression moves well beyond the rendition of “disciplinary components” and study spaces to the projection of new educational and interactive models?
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University of California Press