Campus Planning Focus of UNM Lecture Friday, Oct. 6

Kelly to return in Nov. to lead design workshop for UNM West campus in Rio Rancho

Brian Kelly, AIA, director of the architecture program at the University of Maryland, will present an illustrated lecture on campus planning and design this Friday, Oct. 6, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Northrop Hall, rm. 122, on the UNM campus.

Photo: Brian Kelly

The lecture is part of the John Gaw Meem lecture series presented by the UNM School of Architecture and Planning. This event is free and open to the public.

Titled “Design of the American Campus: Paradigms and Regional Adaptation,” Kelly’s presentation includes an overview of university campus design traditions as well as new planning directions. As a faculty member at Arizona State University in 1987, Kelly was co-designer for the concept plan for the acclaimed ASU West campus in Phoenix. He has since collaborated on the design of campus plans at a number of major universities throughout the United States, including the University of Virginia, University of Georgia, Emory University, University of Chicago, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Maryland and Notre Dame.

Presently a consultant to Ayers Saint Gross, an internationally respected campus planning and architecture firm in Baltimore, Kelly’s previous experience includes practice with Skidmore Owings and Merrill in Chicago and Peterson-Littenberg in New York.

Kelly will return to Albuquerque Nov. 12-15 to lead a design workshop, or “charrette,” to explore strategies and develop initial design concepts for the new UNM West campus soon to be constructed in Rio Rancho. The charrette will include the participation of other distinguished design professionals from across the country as well as UNM planning, architecture and landscape architecture faculty. In advocating the means to create sustainable environment, Kelly maintains a deep interest in the relationship between the built and natural characteristics of campuses, as well as the land and regions where they are situated.

Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu

Posted by scarr at October 3, 2006 10:48 AM