Campus Planning Hosts Association of University Architects 2024 Annual Conference

Richard Yeager (left) thanks Andy Mangels following welcoming remarks at the 2024 Association of University Architects Annual Conference.

Over 100 attendees representing 81 universities visited the UMass Amherst campus June 23-27 when UMass Amherst Campus Planning, a division of Facilities and Campus Services, hosted the Association of University Architects (AUA) 2024 Annual Conference at the Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center.<_o3a_p>

As a member of the board of directors of AUA, Richard Yeager, director of campus planning, celebrated with his national peers the many campus improvements that UMass has implemented since the 2012 campus master plan. Yeager and Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, senior campus planner and architect, served on the AUA programming committee that organized the event.<_o3a_p>

The theme for this year's conference was "Reinventing the Modern," with sub-themes for each day that included "Campus Brutiful," integrative learning, historic reinvention and modern innovation. Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance Andrew Mangels, together with Yeager and Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, provided the welcome address that included an overview of the land grant history and sustainable development of the UMass Amherst campus. On subsequent days, UMass staff presented lessons learned from campus management and capital projects, including Executive Director of Auxiliary Enterprises Ken Toong on the award-winning UMass dining program; founding Director of the Institute of Applied Life Sciences Peter Reinhart on modern innovation and the translational ecosystem of the IALS facility; Senior Campus Planner and Landscape Architect Simon Raine and Project Executive Jason Venditti on the transformation of the central campus core; and tours of the John Olver Design Building led by Project Executive Joe Balzano and Senior Project Manager Burt Ewart.<_o3a_p>

UMass faculty, alumni and students also engaged with attendees through presentations that included a campus tour of notable brutalist buildings by Professor of History of Art and Architecture Timothy Rohan; an academic partnerships panel led by Professor and Chair of Architecture Stephen Schreiber; a participatory design exercise on the campus pond crossing led by Professor of Architecture Ray Kinoshita Mann; and a presentation on Smith College history by Lecturer of History of Art and Architecture Margaret Vickery. Architecture department alumnus Lincoln Nemetz-Carlson assisted with AUA conference logo and video design, alumna Colleen Tully exhibited the Breuer Window artwork as part of a StudioBRUT disco party at the UPub, and architecture student Kay Tierney provided logistical support to the conference.

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