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Planning Universities: A Passport to Utopia
Presenter(s): Pablo Campos, Universidad Camilo Jose Cela
Convener: Maria I. Wilpon, Helpern Architects

In 1927, King Alfonso XIII of Spain decided to create a modern "University City" in Madrid. This session is focused on the planning lessons that the King's technical commission brought back to Europe from American and Canadian universities in 1927: general campus layout; links between university and city; academic spatial 'cells'; architectural campus configuration; and overall, Utopia as a crucial energy of transformation of universities. The final goal is to update those lessons and reinforce the Utopian attitude today as an extremely solid planning tool.


This knowledge resource from SCUP is a concurrent session presented at the Society's thirty-eighth annual, international conference and Expo, SCUP–38, in Miami Beach, FL (USA), in July of 2003.

Audiocassettes and MP3's (on CD's) of these and other SCUP–38 sessions are available for purchase here.

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