Campus Landscape Design

The material of a bench-top is architecture at its most intimate. At its most expansive is a building's relationship to its near and distant contexts. Today, with society's renewed focus on STEM fields, colleges and universities are investing heavily in academic laboratories, which often play defining roles on the campus. They shape the experience not only of faculty and students in the sciences, but of the entire campus community and, in some cases, the city of which it is a part. The larger context is both natural and cultural, and for us the building is an opportunity to weave connections between the two.

James H. Collins, Jr.