Abstract：This contribution to design history considers a recent shift in the approach to the architecture and landscape of urban
universities. Based on secondary literature and published campus master plans, the paper contrasts the mid-twentieth
century concern for separation with a contemporary search for integration. Although it draws primarily on European
and American examples, its topic is generic. The campus design revolution is explored and explained at three scales:
first viz-à-viz the university’s urban context, then its internal layout and landscape, and finally its buildings and their
use. Each scale finds a design factor to the pursuit of knowledge.
