Article II
The Campus
The physical estate — who designed it, how it was paid for, and how it has been added to over time.
- Article
- II
- Clauses
- 5
- Numbering
- 2.1 – 2.5
- Field
- The Campus
Clauses under this Article
In numbered order
- 2.1 The Axial Plan and Its Discontents Surveys the major campus-planning traditions in American university history — the Jeffersonian academical village, Olmsted's landscape model, the Beaux-Arts axial plan — and how each encoded an idea about what a university was for. Comparative across institutions.
- 2.2 Collegiate Gothic Was a Choice Argues that the adoption of Gothic Revival and Romanesque for American campuses in the late nineteenth century was deliberate institutional signalling, not stylistic innocence. Draws on documented building committee minutes and donor correspondence.
- 2.3 Five Hundred Seats Facing One Direction Treats the large lecture theatre as an architectural type — its sightlines, acoustics, tiered seating, and how its form has changed from the anatomy theatre to the raked auditorium. A close formal description of a building type.
- 2.4 The Construction Cycle That Never Ends Explains the structural incentives — naming opportunities, donor cultivation, bond markets, accreditation square-footage norms — that keep universities in a near-permanent state of capital construction. Practical and somewhat counterintuitive.
- 2.5 Secular Institutions With Spires Looks at why chapels remained the dominant landmark on American campuses long after most universities formally separated from denominational control, and what that persistence says about institutional identity and donor expectation.