University Architect
The Office of the University Architect serves as an "aesthetic conscience" for our beautiful, walkable campus, and we play a major role in all long-range campus planning. We provide support for land use, zoning, and regional development initiatives. We coordinate preliminary architectural studies for major new structures and alterations to existing structures, oversee interior design, furniture planning, exterior graphics, and site development. You can often catch one of us walking around campus, enjoying our current architecture and spaces, while also imagining our campus over the next 100 years.
Helpful links
Documents and Forms
- Capital Project User Guide (ver. 10.31.2018)
- Design Standards Manual and Appendices
Areas of Interest
- Campus Plan website
- Capital Projects
- Sustainable Campus
- Campus Building Chronology (last updated 2014)
- Campus Building Architects (last updated 2015)
In The News
In December, the Green Infrastructure Committee visited Princeton to learn more about the stormwater management planning and infrastructure built over the past 15+ years.
The use of mass timber in campus construction projects was recently featured in an article by PAW.
The project received a 2024 Gold Award for Restoration in the Ernest Wiemann Top Job Contest held by the National Ornamental and Miscellaneous Metals Association (NOMMA).
Ron McCoy, University Architect, is a featured honoree at the upcoming 2024 Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization (CSU) Annual Gala.
Princeton is using a new model for campus construction projects that partners large design and construction firms with smaller ones to help increase the number of businesses, including those that are diverse-owned, that have the needed experience and scale to bid on future capital projects at the University and elsewhere.
Did You Know
Facilities maintains the oldest building on campus, Nassau Hall, which was built by Philadelphia-based carpenter Robert Smith in 1756.