Master Plan for the University of Oregon

A complete user-based master plan for the University of Oregon, in Eugene, introducing a new planning theory, which replaced the predominant theory of master plans. It gave primacy to the use of pattern languages and user design, in the continuous process of development of the campus. The six fundamental principles of the new planning approach were the following: Participation, Diagnosis, Patterns, Piecemeal Growth, Emergence of a Whole and Implementation Procedures. The mater plan was implemented and was in operation until the 1990s. The specific patterns for the Oregon University contributed to the final formulation of patterns in “A Pattern Language”, published in 1977.