ABSTRACT
The American campus has a tradition as an architectural showplace. Colleges and universities have long had a strong commitment to monumental buildings accompanied by landscaped grounds. Beyond the visual legacy of mixing historical revival motifs with modern construction, the choices higher education leaders make in what to build and where has consequences for educational activities and the academic enterprise. A major consideration today is that the 21st century campus may be over-built and problematic with changing forms and function of the constituencies and missions of the modern college and university.
