FS-003 - Overview and Landscape Walking Tour of Vanderbilt University

Friday, November 19, 2021

7:45 AM – 12:45 PM CDT

Location: Music City Center, 6th Avenue Entrance/ Exit on Level 2, Field Session Departure Area 3

Compliments of:

3.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW, ISA

Field Session Leader(s)

Judson Newbern, ASLA

Owner private consulting; served 30 yrs exec admin Vanderbilt Univ. Campus Planning & Operations
Newbern Consulting Services, LLC
BRENTWOOD, Tennessee
James H. Moore, ASLA

University Landscape Architect
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

3.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW, ISA

SOLD OUT

Until 1979, Peabody College and Vanderbilt University were divided by both a busy Nashville street and very different design approaches. But when the two schools merged, their built environments merged too, creating a fascinating study in contrasts featuring meandering carriage drives, Beaux-Arts symmetry, and much more.

$80 per person by August 18; $95 after August 18; includes transportation and water. Extensive walking.

Learning Outcomes:

Learn how the philosophical differences in approach to higher education translated into two contrasting 3-D campuses and how they continue to work within their original concepts today.
See how the arterial layout of perimeter edges proved a daunting challenge to Vanderbilt as it commissioned a series of master plans over the decades to attempt creating "collegiate quadrangles".
Learn how landscape architect Warren Manning was instrumental in laying out the Peabody campus master plan that later saw architectural firms like McKim Mead and White complete the framework.
Explore how very different layouts addressed the infill demands driven by ever-growing square footage, and the role that landscape plantings and public sculpture have played in reinforcing the original concepts.