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."

博洛尼亚大学
位于意大利，博洛尼亚

勿庸质疑，这可是西方世界里最古老的大学。实际上，博洛尼亚大学的校园就是博洛尼亚市本身。任教于美国圣母大学(Notre Dame)建筑学院的David Meyerick教授，目前正在瑞士参与一所大学的设计工作，他在谈到博洛尼亚大学时表示：“就个性化而言，这个学校略微有点儿面目模糊，不过，它与外部环境的密不可分弥补了这方面的缺憾。”欧洲的许多大学都是如此，与它们所在的城市水乳交融。“所以，周遭环境是一座举足轻重，美丽异常的城市（其根源甚至可追溯到罗马帝国之前），这也算是一个很大的优势。”