The Fall Workshop will be Thursday, October 23, 2008 at the Hotel at MIT (Le Meridien Hotel),
Cambridge, MA. Please visit the Workshop Details page for more information
or click here to Register.
Colleges and universities are complex environments composed of multiple stakeholders and decision-makers.
To achieve exceptional design and quality construction, decision making protocols and design principles
must be established early in the process and continually reinforced. This challenge is most acute when building
entirely new campuses which require decisions involving resource sharing, teaching and research methodologies,
interdisciplinary interaction, and the need to shape architecture and open space while the overall campus plan
itself is evolving.
Recent emphasis on integrated design provides a useful approach to such projects, since it encourages a
broad view of the project and active collaboration among all parties: facility managers, administrators,
maintenance staff, students, faculty, municipalities, architects, and engineers. Columbia University's
new Manhattanville campus and Harvard's Allston campus provide instructive models for enhanced collaboration
through integrated design and planning. Both campuses have gone beyond 2-D planning of the
ground plan to a more robust form of 3-D planning which explores the opportunities and constraints of both the
above- and below-ground worlds.
The Fall will bring together client and consultant representatives from both institutions who will share
their insights on the integrated design process.
