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1997
Charrette Weekend
Guiding Principles
Source: Guiding
Principles from the Report on the Master Planning Weekend, Fall 1997, Brandeis
University)
The Brandeis Campus
should express and support the
University's Mission.
- The campus should be
memorable and uplifting.
It
should be an inviting, lively and coherent place, a place of wellbeing. The
quality of the University environment, its buildings and landscape, represent
the quality of the entire institution to outsiders and the Brandeis community
alike. It should offer the same care, welcome and humanity as the people of
Brandeis.
- The campus should
enhance social interaction.
It
should reinforce a sense of the overall community and support the smaller
communities within the University. Coherent outdoor meeting spaces will invite
the community to use them. Legible paths should connect them to encourage
human interaction.
- The campus must plan
for growth and change.
The
University is still growing; its facilities are aging and new needs are
appearing. Brandeis needs to determine how best to grow and rebuild with
limited resources and space. It needs to identify existing facilities that can
be better used. It needs to identify buildings that might make way to make the
whole campus better, and those which should be preserved for historic and
artistic value. It needs to identify the best opportunities for expansion
beyond its current boundaries.
- The University
should develop an ongoing planning process which solicits input from
its entire community.
This
will ensure that growth is coordinated and thought through to the future,
while taking into account current needs. Any successful Master Plan must be as
much a process as a document to absorb the constant change of the world around
us.
- It is time to renew
the pioneering spirit of Brandeis.
The
University has a tradition of path-breaking architecture and planning which
should be continued. In the beginnings of the school, Abram Sachar brought in
noted professionals to plan and design. Eero Saarinen was at the pinnacle of
his illustrious career when he made the first master plan. Harrison and
Abramovitz had just completed the U.N. Building and completed Lincoln Center
as they began designing for Brandeis. Their presence added luster to the
school not unlike Brandeis' ties to Leonard Bernstein and Eleanor Roosevelt.
The campus should have the same stature as the institution and scholarship it
houses.
Return
to the Forward from the Report on the Master Planning Weekend, Fall 1997, Brandeis
University).
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