University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy

Arguably the oldest university in the Western world, the University of Bologna's actual "campus" is the city of Bologna itself, says David Meyerick, who teaches at Notre Dame's School of Architecture, and is currently designing a campus in Switzerland. "What the university lacks in personal identity, it makes up for in being inextricably tied to its environment," says Meyerick. Many European universities tend to be "embedded" in their home/host cities, which can be "a great advantage when the environment is an important, beautiful city whose origins date back well before the Roman Empire."

博洛尼亞大學
位于意大利，博洛尼亞

勿庸質疑，這可是西方世界里最古老的大學。實際上，博洛尼亞大學的校園就是博洛尼亞市本身。任教于美國圣母大學(Notre Dame)建筑學院的David Meyerick教授，目前正在瑞士參與一所大學的設計工作，他在談到博洛尼亞大學時表示：“就個性化而言，這個學校略微有點兒面目模糊，不過，它與外部環境的密不可分彌補了這方面的缺憾?！睔W洲的許多大學都是如此，與它們所在的城市水乳交融?！八?，周遭環境是一座舉足輕重，美麗異常的城市（其根源甚至可追溯到羅馬帝國之前），這也算是一個很大的優勢。”