Campus: Building Modern Australian Universities

Edited by Andrew Saniga and Robert Freestone

University campuses are now a fixture of practically every major city in Australia but often go under-appreciated as built environments. This collaborative history sheds light on the origins and evolution of campus design from the Second World War to the current day. It explores built legacies and design strategies set against the backdrop of the development of higher education in Australia’s continuing cultural evolution.

Times change but what remains is the importance of the design, landscape and buildings of university campuses in shaping and supporting the quality of life and work of the university community. Campuses profoundly shape the immediate experiences, as well as the memories of significant times, in the lives of those who pass through them. They are substantial new manifestations of urban civic life.

The essays on modern Australian universities presented in Campus are deep and wide, setting their features in the socio-economic, political and urban context in which they have developed. This is a particularly rich collection from which to reflect on the particularities and commonalities of the Australian university campus.

"[T]his collection is substantial scholarship – one architects and planners who aspire to managing a university development need to read." – Stephen Matchett, Future Campus

2024 AILA VIC Award of Excellence for Research, Policy and Communications

Please note there is a printing error on page 343. The correction is available to download. 

Book details

PRICE: $80.00 incl GST

PUBLISHER: UWA Publishing

PUBLISHED: 1 June 2023

ISBN: 978-1-76080-050-5

FORMAT: large format, flexi-bound, 234mm W x 284 mm H , 2.5 kg

EXTENT: 452 pages

CATEGORY: Architecture, Australian History, Non-fiction