Emory University, Long Range Master Plan and Updates, Atlanta, Georgia

Tippett and Associates, Architects, in association with Richard P. Dober, noted campus planner, prepared Emory University’s Campus Plan of 1982. The plan reflected policy decisions on physical development as determined by the Board of Trustees and the University President, benefiting from a thoughtful, collegial process that engaged all University members.

Those decisions were infused by a vision of Emory University as an institution that, in the words of then President James T. Laney, “is not fragmented…by the specialized agenda of its constituent disciplines”, but rather an institution marked by “coherence in spirit that comes from a lively collegiality and rigorous intellectual exchange in an awakened, gracious, creative community.”

The 1982 plan laid out the idea of a campus physically united by a loop road, making the various parts of the campus accessible by bus or auto, while closing many of the internal streets and returning them to pedestrian use only.

The broad goals of this plan were further developed by Tippett and Associates in the Campus Planning Guidelines of 1991, the Clifton Road Plan and the Quadrangle Renovation Plan.