A 21st-century campus
This is the second of four reports echoing key themes of The Harvard Campaign, examining what the University is accomplishing in those areas. In an odd way, the increasingly digital world is re-emphasizing the need for brick-and-mortar facilities that can properly support the continuing revolutions in learning. Harvard’s renewed development in Allston, the rejuvenated Science Center Plaza, a planned student center, and the newly renovated Quincy House — just renamed Stone Hall — illustrate the types of changes that will soon become commonplace elements of Harvard’s future campus. Straddling the Charles River and centered on the Old Yard and the undergraduate Houses, the future campus will stretch from recently built science facilities along Oxford Street and the new Harvard Law School building along Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge to the new ceramics studio in Barry’s Corner and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) project along Western Avenue in Allston. Supporting the development...