June 9, 2022 — Learning By Design magazine (LBD) and the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) announce the winners of the 2022 SCUP Excellence Awards. The SCUP Excellence Awards honor achievement in strategic, integrated planning that results in exemplary buildings and grounds, institutional success, and careers that inspire. The award program is a juried competition open to professional service providers and institutions that have prepared designs or plans for two-year and four-year colleges, universities, academic medical and research centers, and public or private institutions.
Learning By Design magazine is thrilled to enable the timely publication in its June (Summer) 2022 edition containing the winning Juror’s Choice, Merit, and Honor awarded entries in the three main awards categories of Planning, Architecture, and Landscape Architecture.
In total 23 top awarded projects are showcased in the June 2022 (Summer) edition of Learning By Design with distribution to over 50,000 professionals working to improve educational spaces of all types. The awards inspire education leadership to emulate quality planning and design practices and theories on their own campus enabling their institutions to meet the needs of todays and future students, faculty, and the communities they embody.
LBD for 31+ years has been the premier source for education facility design innovation and excellence. Offering multidisciplinary groups of education decision-makers a knowledge based platform for creating environments for human exploration, learning, and well-being. LBD showcases projects, case studies, and research that exemplify how the design of the physical space can impact teaching, programing, and academic outcomes. (Learningbydesignmagazine.com)
SCUP unites the best of college and professional planners. SCUP creates a range of learning opportunities, from publications to its annual SCUP conference, for their community to share perspectives, resources, best practices, and fresh ideas that move challenges to solutions—building upon a culture of integrated planning.
Integrated planning is a sustainable approach to planning that builds relationships, aligns the organization, and emphasizes preparedness for change. It is a vehicle for achieving, and whether you plan facilities, influence academic direction, or help create your institution’s mission, SCUP can help it all come together. (SCUP.ORG)
Project overviews of each award winner can be found in the digital and print editions of the June 2022 edition of Learning By Design Magazine.