Knowledge Clusters:Campus Urbanism in the 21st Century City

Moscow Urban Forum, 11 December, 2014

Sharon Haar, AIAProfessor & Architecture Program ChairTaubman College University of Michigan

photo credits: Iker Gil, Morphosis Architects

Ray & Maria Strata Center, MIT; Frank O. Gehry

Matter + Information

Container + Network

Production of Knowledge + Exchange of Ideas

Students & Faculty + Talent

Cornell NYC Tech atrium view; Morphosis Architects

Each college or university is an urban unit in itself, a small or large city. But a green city…. The American university is a world in itself.

Le Corbusier

City of Learning

Proposed Plan for Johns Hopkins University, 1909New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg credits: Popular Science Monthly; Luke Sharrett for the New York Times

photo credits: Iker Gil, IIT

University of Cincinnati’s Main Street; landscape Hargreaves Associates, buildings by Morphosis and Moore, Ruble, Yudell

McCormick Tribune Campus Center, IIT, Chicago; Office for Metropolitan Architecture

DePaul University and Columbia College Chicago in “Loop U”, downtown Chicago

photo credits: Sharon Haar

Research universities, a scientifically-educated workforce, and collaboration play an important role in driving metropolitan innovation.

The Brookings Institution

City of Knowledge

The Googleplexphoto credit: Steve Jurvetsen via Flickr

Stanford University, Stanford Research Park, and Silicon Valley

photo credits: Wikimedia, Sharon Haar

The geography of venture capital investment and the shift to “Urban Tech” across the US -Richard Florida

Maps by Zara Matheson of the Prosperity Institute

www.digital.nyc

Digital.NYC: “the official online hub of the New York City digital and technology ecosystem”

Photo credit: Karsten Moran for The New York Times

Google Offices, Manhattan

Cornell NYC Tech: campus courtyard view & aerial view looking west toward Manhattan; SOM and Morphosis

credit: Kilograph

credit: Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Urban Designers

Columbia University Manhattanville Campus; SOM, urban designers, & Renzo Piano, architects

By selectively loosening place-to-place contiguity requirements, wired networks produced fragmentation and recombination of familiar building types and urban patterns.

Similarly, by selectively loosening person-to-place contiguity requirements, wireless networks and portable devices have created an additional degree of spatial indeterminacy….

William Mitchell

Campus in the Cloud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fajlZMdPkKE

Thank you.

Sharon Haar, AIAProfessor & Architecture Program ChairTaubman College University of Michigan