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A LANDSCAPE ICON ON A BUSY CAMPUS BECOMES A PARTNER IN AN AMBITIOUS REUSE PROGRAM.

KYLE WURTZ

Bricks are so ubiquitous on the campus of North Carolina State University (NC State) that it is a tradition for graduating students to take one as a memento. Hundreds of thousands of fired clay pavers adorn the campus, thanks to the geological composition of the Piedmont, where red clay dominates the soil. The most emblematic site on campus is University Plaza, which wasinitially paved with more than half a million red bricks donated by the North Carolina Bricklayers Association and white bricks purchased from South Carolina manufacturers. Designed by Richard C. Bell Associates and completed in 1968, University Plaza was among the first landscape architecture projects to be funded by the state on an educational campus. The plaza is an example of the university’s incremental development, and it was largely…

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Landscape Architecture (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2024

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