Universities across the world are increasingly dependent on substantial gifts from the super-rich and their charitable foundations for capital development. The “golden age of philanthropy” compels academic managers to become campaigners and supplicants and rewards those whose research appeals to the philanthropic marketplace. Philanthropy thereby shapes the organization, activities and behavior of the contemporary university. Additionally, it literally shapes campuses. Substantial gifts, arriving as they do on a timeline that suits philanthropists, re-order development priorities, disrupt masterplans, and generally channel funds toward research in the biosciences, health and technology. Consequently, there has been a boom in university laboratory construction since the early 1990s, especially in biomedical research. This paper explores how philanthropy might have specifically architectural effects. Focusing on Atlantic Philanthropies and their investment in the Translational Research Institute, in Queensland, Australia, it is argued that philanthropy produces buildings that are luxurious and ornamented and, in the context of university requirements, ornamental.

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捐助者驱动的大学设计

世界各地的大学越来越依赖超级富豪及其慈善基金会的大量捐赠来进行资本发展。“慈善的黄金时代”迫使学术管理者成为活动家和恳求者，并奖励那些研究吸引慈善市场的人。慈善事业由此塑造了当代大学的组织、活动和行为。此外，它确实塑造了校园。大量礼物按照适合慈善家的时间表到达，重新安排发展优先事项，破坏总体规划，并通常将资金用于生物科学、健康和技术研究。因此，自 1990 年代初以来，大学实验室建设蓬勃发展，特别是在生物医学研究方面。本文探讨了慈善事业如何具有特定的建筑效果。关注大西洋慈善事业及其对澳大利亚昆士兰转化研究所的投资，有人认为慈善事业生产的建筑既豪华又装饰，在大学要求的背景下，装饰性建筑。