Master's Thesis - Dissertation is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the MPhil examination in Architecture and Urban Design, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
This thesis involves the relationship between the built environment, edifice, and higher education, edification, embodied in the symbolic form of the university campus. University campuses, particularly those of the New Universities of the 1960s, are microcosmic representations of a society, where the holistically planned environment establishes the preconditions for the evolution of that society. On the level of the individual and the collective, university campuses are thus examples of a total environment which contain the possibility of being didactic in their own right: informing behaviour and providing the formative conditions for individual self-realisation and collective action.
