Click play to listen. Recorded on November 13, 2010.
The first modern universities in England, France, and Italy were loosely connected research centers embedded in the bustling hearts of Europe’s great cities. In the United States, the university campus evolved in a different direction. Based on Thomas Jefferson’s design for the University for Virginia, the US campus developed as a pastoral setting with broad lawns, and according to Chicago architect
Joseph Valerio, “well-behaved buildings.” Join Valerio for a fascinating look at how the urban university is being reborn and redefined in Chicago by Columbia College, IIT, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and other institutions with a total enrollment of 50,000. These institutions are looking to the past—while charting a new course for the future.
