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New Building Facts

•The groundbreaking ceremony for the new building took place on Saturday, March 29, 2003.

•111,382 square feet — double the SALA’s current space in the Engineering Units

•Five levels, including a basement

•First new Penn State building designed to meet the national criteria for certification as environmentally friendly “sustainable architecture” adhering to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™

•Will house classrooms, office space, state-of-the-art design studios, an architecture and landscape architecture library, a model construction shop, a gallery, a mezzanine, space for design presentations, the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing, the Hamer Center for Community Design Assistance, and the Center for Watershed Stewardship

•Exterior will consist of brick, recycled copper and low-energy glass windows, while interior will feature natural finishes, such as wood, rather than artificial materials

•At least 20 percent of building materials used will be manufactured within 500 miles of University Park

The Stuckeman Family Building for the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

SALA Building

Dear Alumni and Friends,

     Now that construction has begun on the new building for the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, we’re on our way to uniting, for the first time, virtually all facilities in the College of Arts and Architecture in the Arts Quadrant of the University Park campus. In addition to the logistical benefits, the 111,000-square-foot facility, located adjacent to the Arts Building and beside the Palmer Museum of Art, will offer cutting-edge technologies plus ample studio and classroom space for teaching and learning, making it a welcoming and comfortable “home” for our students and faculty.

     I’m thrilled that this will be the first new Penn State building designed to meet the U.S. Green Building Council’s national criteria for certification as environmentally friendly, sustainable architecture. It only makes sense that a building for our architecture and landscape architecture students—those being taught to respect and honor the environment as they design buildings and the spaces around them—possess this distinction.

     Our own faculty and staff played an important role in the development of this facility and its environment, collaborating with lead architects Overland Partners of San Antonio and WTW Architects of Pittsburgh, along with the landscape architecture firm La Quatra Bonci, also of Pittsburgh. Their collaboration in the design of the building set the stage for the future inter-college collaborations that will be made easier by the structure’s location.

     The facility will be named the Stuckeman Family Building for the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, in honor of our very generous donors, H. Campbell “Cal” Stuckeman and his late wife, Eleanor. Their lead gift, along with the much-appreciated contributions from others like you, will ensure our architecture and landscape architecture faculty and staff have the resources to prepare our students for their future careers.

     Thank you for helping to make this dream—one that was decades in the making—become a reality. I look forward to welcoming you into our wonderful new facility.

Richard Durst
Dean, College of Arts and Architecture