From Olmsted to the Future: Stewarding the Planning and Architecture of the Stanford Campus
Return to SHS YouTube channel home page: / @stanfordhistsoc
Go to SHS web site: https://historicalsociety.stanford.edu/
November 10, 2021
Additional Resources: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TDdi...
Stanford University was one of the few fortunate universities to have a master plan conceived by Frederick Law Olmsted prior to any building development. That brilliant framework plan continues to serve as the foundation for planning the Stanford campus in a cohesive and orderly manner. In this presentation, Stanford University Architect David "Dave" Lenox highlights the key precepts of the original campus plan, leads us on a journey to demonstrate how projects built in the recent decade uphold the original planning tenets, and also illustrates the guiding principles that ground the architecture and design.