114-690: Highfield Campus is the main campus of the University of Southampton and is located in Southampton , southern England. It is the largest of the university's campuses with most of the students studying there. The campus is also the location of the main university library, the students' union as well as sports facilities. The university's predecessor the Hartley Institute first bought the Highfield site in June 1909 at
228-495: A Highfield Planning Group was formed under the direction of Professor Tim Holt to oversee how the university and the campus could develop further, given that the new Mountbatten building had used the last of the university's building plots. As the university had now exceeded the Master Plan set out by Sir Basil Spence set out in the late 1950s, a new one had to be developed, so the university approached Chesterton Consulting to devise
342-489: A Public Library, Botanic Gardens, Observatory, and collections of objects with the above sciences. Hartley was an eccentric straggler, who had little liking of the new age docks and railways in Southampton. He did not desire to create a college for many (as formed at similar time in other English industrial towns and commercial ports) but a cultural centre for Southampton's intellectual elite. After lengthy legal challenges to
456-471: A bequest of £103,000 to the Southampton Corporation for the study and advancement of the sciences in his property on Southampton's High Street, in the city centre. ...employ the interest, dividends and annual proceeds in such a manner as best promote the study and advancement of the sciences of Natural History, Astronomy, Antiquities, Classical and Oriental Literature in the town, such as by forming
570-546: A combined market capitalisation value of £160 million. The park was renamed in 2006. To connect the university's Southampton campuses, halls of residence, hospitals, and other important features of the city, the university operates the Unilink bus service for the benefit of the students, staff and the general public. The service is currently operated by local bus company Bluestar using the Unilink name. The service consists of four routes. The U1 runs between Southampton Airport and
684-666: A counterfeit oil terminus at Dover as part of the Operation Fortitude deception plan for the Normandy landings. Spence subsequently took part in the D-Day landings in 1944. He was demobilised in September 1945, having reached the rank of major and been mentioned in despatches twice. Spence returned to Rowand Anderson & Paul & Partners briefly, before setting up his own practice, Basil Spence & Partners, with Bruce Robertson. He
798-584: A fire broke out in the Mountbatten building, causing the ECS department to be crippled until replacement facilities could be found. As a result, the university needed to replace the building as soon as possible and took the opportunity to create a new campus masterplan, set to last until 2021. The new and replacement Mountbatten building was opened in 2008 and included new and updated clean rooms while still being an environmentally friendly design. The master plan also included
912-628: A modernist Regency style, with assistance from Perry Duncan, an American architect hired by the Colvilles when Spence was too busy with exhibition work to progress the project. In 1939, Spence was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Camouflage Training and Development Centre of the British Army . He was initially based at Farnham in Surrey. His work included, prior to D-Day, the design of
1026-523: A new Archaeology building built in 2006 costing £2.7 million. Boldrewood Campus, located a short distance from the Highfield campus, houses the university's new Maritime Centre of Excellence, the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute and Lloyd's Register 's Group Technology Centre. The campus was formerly the Biomedical Sciences campus of the university and acted, until 2010, as
1140-574: A new School of Radio Telegraphy. The university hosted the Supermarine plans and design team for a period but in December 1940 further bomb hits resulted in it being relocated to Hursley House . Halls of residence were used to house Polish, French and American troops. After the war, departments such as Electronics grew under the influence of professor Erich Zepler and the Institute of Sound and Vibration
1254-479: A new one. These new plans had to satisfy the planning laws on parking that required a certain number of new spaces for every development, requiring the plan to include three multi-storey car parks and a reconfiguration of University Road. None of these eventually occurred as the university and the Consultancy lobbied the council and were able to change the guidance to allow further development to be easier. To cement
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#17328528345851368-650: A non-hospital base for the School of Medicine and home to a research facility for the Biological Sciences. These departments were then relocated to either Southampton General Hospital, the new Life Sciences building at Highfield, or the University of Southampton science park. The National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) is located in Southampton Docks three miles south of the main university campus. The campus
1482-528: A previous structure consisting of eight faculties. The current faculty structure is: Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities in Britain. Southampton awards a wide range of academic degrees spanning academic degrees for bachelor's in a variety of degrees and master's degrees as well as junior doctorates and higher doctorates . The postnominals awarded are
1596-568: A result, the Arts buildings were vacated and it led to several departments changing buildings around 1995 and allowing the refurbishment of several of the 1960s building stock. In addition, a programme of new building works commenced: the Health Professional and Rehabilitation Sciences building was built in the North East corner of the campus in 1994 and featured a modern design by Sir Norman Foster ;
1710-578: A room within the office of Rowand Anderson & Paul (at that time having Arthur Forman Balfour Paul as sole partner), in Rutland Square, Edinburgh. The practice was founded on two residential commissions which Kininmonth had obtained that year. Spence also received commissions to illustrate other architects' work, including the Southside Garage, on Causewayside, Edinburgh, in an Art Deco style (although credited to Spence his name appears nowhere on
1824-540: A science park in Chilworth . The university also owns sports facilities and halls of residences on a variety of other nearby sites. The university's main campus is located in the residential area of Highfield . Opened on 20 June 1914, the site was initially used as a military hospital during World War I. The campus grew gradually, mainly consisting of detailed red brick buildings (such as the Hartley library and West building of
1938-681: A university. It was opened in 1996 by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh . The campus was also the base for the NERC purpose-built research vessels RRS James Cook and until recently the RRS Discovery and the RRS Charles Darwin . The university maintains a presence at Southampton General in partnership with the NHS trust operating the hospital. It is home to some operations of the Faculty of Medicine and
2052-497: A year into World War II . In 1944, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott submitted a design proposal to rebuild the cathedral but this was rejected by the Royal Fine Arts Commission . In 1950, a competition was launched to find the most suitable design from a Commonwealth of Nations architect. Over 200 entries were received, and Spence's radical design was chosen. Work began in 1956 and the structure was completed in 1962. Spence
2166-945: Is a public research university in Southampton , England. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities in the United Kingdom . The university has seven campuses. The main campus is located in the Highfield area of Southampton and is supplemented by four other campuses within the city: Avenue Campus housing the School of Humanities, the National Oceanography Centre housing courses in Ocean and Earth Sciences, Southampton General Hospital offering courses in Medicine and Health Sciences, and Boldrewood Campus housing an engineering and maritime technology campus and Lloyd's Register . In addition,
2280-576: Is dissected by the north/south University Road, splitting the campus into East and West sections. The area surrounding the campus is mainly residential in nature. The campus is served by the Unilink U1, U2, U6 and U9 routes that connect the campus to the Airport , Wessex Lane , Glen Eyre and other halls of residence, the City Centre and the university's satellite campuses at Southampton General Hospital and
2394-435: Is equipped with a myriad of open learning spaces, lecture halls, an Aerospace Lab, a Design Studio, Business Experimental Labs, and a 12-terminal Bloomberg Suite to enhance the quality and learning experience throughout the students’ journey. From the initial offerings of four Engineering programmes, UoSM has now grown to offer 20 programmes in the fields of Engineering, Business and Computer Science fields. Currently, among all
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#17328528345852508-594: Is home of the university's Ocean and Earth Sciences department and is also a campus of the Natural Environment Research Council 's research institute, the National Oceanography Centre . Five of the National Oceanography Centre's research divisions are based on the campus. Planning of the campus began in 1989 and was completed in 1994 due to cuts and uncertainties whether a national research centre could be successfully integrated with
2622-522: Is the most powerful cluster of research intensive universities in the UK and the new consortium is to become one of the world's leading hubs for science and engineering research. In 2015, the university started a fundraising campaign to build the Centre for Cancer Immunology based at Southampton General Hospital . At the beginning of 2018, the target amount of £25 million was raised, allowing 150 scientists to move into
2736-534: The British Army to study for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). The university also works with the Royal Navy to provide training and qualifications towards Chartered Engineer status. In terms of average UCAS points of entrants, Southampton ranked 25th in Britain in 2023. The university gives offers of admission to 84.0% of its applicants, the 6th highest amongst the Russell Group . According to
2850-567: The First World War as a military hospital, with the college students and staff using the old High Street buildings until 1919. The campus was opened after the war in October 1919 with the college using two buildings (now forming part of the Hartley Library) which housed classes and laboratory facilities for the three hundred students. Due to difficulties in selling them on for a reasonable price,
2964-791: The Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) and the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). The split campus degree programmes take place in Malaysia for the first two years, with the final two years at Southampton. In 2016, the Malaysia Campus' first group of students graduated, along with the first PhD graduate. As part of its expansion plans, the University of Southampton Malaysia has moved into its new 150,000sq ft state-of-the-art estate in Eco Botanic City, Iskandar Puteri. The new campus
3078-475: The National Oceanography Centre . All routes stop at the Unilink interchange in the centre of campus. In addition to the Unilink services, the interchange is also served by National Express Coaches 032 and 203 to London and Portsmouth . 50°56′09″N 1°23′49″W / 50.9359°N 1.397°W / 50.9359; -1.397 University of Southampton The University of Southampton (abbreviated as Soton in post-nominal letters )
3192-629: The Viceroy's House in New Delhi , India. While in London he attended evening classes at the Bartlett School of Architecture under A. E. Richardson . Returning to ECA in 1930 for his final year of studies, he was appointed a junior lecturer, despite the fact that he was still a student. He continued to teach at ECA until 1939. After graduating in 1931, Kininmonth and Spence set up in practice together, based in
3306-525: The degree abbreviations used commonly among British universities. The university is part of the Engineering Doctorate scheme, for the award of Eng. D. degrees. Short courses and professional development courses are run by many of the university's Academic Schools and Research Centres. The university works closely with members of the Armed Forces. It provides professional military educators in
3420-518: The "unusual brilliance" of his work. He won several prizes at the college, and meanwhile carried out paid work drawing architectural perspectives for practising architects including Leslie Grahame-Thomson, Reginald Fairlie and Frank Mears . In 1929–1930, he spent a year as an assistant, along with William Kininmonth , in the London office of Sir Edwin Lutyens , whose work was to have a profound influence on Spence's style, where he worked on designs for
3534-617: The 1920s and 1930s was made possible through private donors, such as Edward Turner Sims's two daughters Mary and Margaret for the construction of the university library, to fulfil a request in his will, and from the people of Southampton, enabling new buildings on both sides of University Road. During World War II the university suffered damage in the Southampton Blitz with bombs landing on the campus and its halls of residence. The college decided against evacuation, instead expanding its Engineering Department, School of Navigation and developing
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3648-506: The 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow , and country houses. The first two of these, Broughton Place at Broughton near Biggar , and Quothquan in Lanarkshire , were executed in traditional Scottish styles at the client's request. The third was entirely modern. Gribloch was designed for John Colville, grandson of the founder of Colville's Iron Works, and his American wife. It was designed in
3762-437: The 2017 Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, approximately 15% of Southampton's undergraduates come from independent schools. In the 2016–17 academic year, the university had a domicile breakdown of 72:7:21 of UK:EU:non-EU students respectively with a female to male ratio of 53:47. 60.5% of international students enrolled at the institution are from China, the highest proportion out of all mainstream universities in
3876-501: The Arts faculty to leave the central building for the first time and expand. Adjacent to Arts 1 is the Mathematics tower, built between 1963 and 1965 by Ronald H Sims in the brutalist style and thus is notably different from the buildings around it with exposed concrete. Also around the same time, Oceanography received a new building north of the campus on Burgess Road (now housing part of Electronics and Computer Science since 1996), which
3990-579: The Bequest, and a public debate as to how best interpret the language of his Will, the Southampton Corporation choose to create the Institute (rather than a more widely accessible college, that some public figures had lobbied for). On 15 October 1862, the Hartley Institute was opened by the Prime Minister Lord Palmerston in a major civic occasion which exceeded in splendor anything that anyone in
4104-685: The British Council for the Disabled, the Clarkson Foundation and the Department of Health and Social Security . New facilities for Engineering were being constructed behind housing (now demolished) in University Crescent and were all of the industrial nature: the R J Mitchell Wind Tunnel was relocated from Farnborough and reconstructed in 1981, the A B Woods underwater laboratory in 1989 and
4218-877: The British universities with a campus in Malaysia, UoSM is the only one that is ranked in the world’s top 100 universities and the Top UK University in Malaysia. In 2024, the university was awarded a licence to establish a new campus in Delhi , India. Programmes are planned to begin in 2025. The university will offer BSc programmes in Computer Science, Business Management, Accounting and Finance, and Economics. MSc programmes will be offered in International Management and Finance. The University of Southampton Science Park contains approximately 50 businesses connected to
4332-488: The Chesterton master plan completely obsolete. As a result, Rick Mather Architects were hired to draw up a new masterplan for Highfield which was completed by 1998. It proposed that University Road, instead of dividing the campus, become a tree lined boulevard, with paths set back from the road and lined by simple white rendered buildings along the northern part of the campus. At this point in time, much of this northern part of
4446-605: The Chilworth Manor site into a science park and conference venue, opening the National Oceanography Centre at a dockside location and purchasing new land from the City Council for the Arts Faculty and sports fields (at Avenue Campus and Wide Lane, respectively). Under the leadership of then Vice-Chancellor, Sir Howard Newby the university became more focused in encouraging and investment in more and better quality research. In
4560-465: The Estate department) in 1938 and Engineering in 1939. In addition, the Hartley library was built in 1935 following a donation of £24,250 (£1,460,500 in 2012) from the daughters of Edward Turner Sims. It was designed by Gutteridge and Gutteridge, with Sir Giles Gilbert Scott , and plugged the gap intentionally left between the original two buildings with library facilities, seminar rooms and a new reception for
4674-539: The Faculty of Health Sciences, although these two faculties have bases on Highfield campus. As a teaching hospital, it is used by a range of undergraduate and postgraduate medical students, research academics and clinicians. The university's involvement began in 1971, when it became the first to house a new school of medicine alongside the universities of Nottingham and Leicester , and currently extends to several operations and specific research centres. The Winchester School of Art, located in central Winchester , houses
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4788-688: The First World War, and which were used as laboratories, plant houses and teaching buildings for the Geology, Music and Arts department right up until the 1960s. Due to lacking finances, and the more pressing need for accommodation, any new buildings constructed during this period were the result of legacies: the George Moore Botanical Laboratories were constructed in 1927 (later housed the Careers Advice service and demolished in 2011) and
4902-737: The Geology building (now renamed the Shackleton building and housing Geography and Psychology since 1996) and the Students' Union building. The final buildings matching the style of the Basil Spence Masterplan were the Arts II building (now Management and Music since 1996), built in 1968, a further extension to the Engineering accommodation in the form of the Wolfson and Raleigh buildings that same year and
5016-413: The Graham Hills tower, built over 1960 and 1961, providing accommodation for Chemistry in the south east corner of Engineering Square and the Faraday tower, built between 1960 and 1963, for Engineering in the north east corner of Engineering Square. The next building to be completed was the Arts building (now the Law school) and adjoining Nuffield Theatre . Built between 1961 and 1963, the building allowed
5130-417: The Hartley Library and Student Services Centre were both extended and redesigned in 2005 and the Students' Union was also extended in 2002. Other constructions include the Archaeology building on Avenue Campus in 2006 and the Institute of Development Sciences building at Southampton General Hospital in 2007. The university has also significantly redeveloped its Boldrewood Campus which is home to part of
5244-447: The High Street premises remained part of the college until the mid-1930s when they were sold for a combined total of £8,000. By the end of the 1930s the college had expanded to nearly 1,000 students, requiring further buildings to be constructed. Those that were constructed were designed by Colonel R. T, Gutteridge and his firm, made of brick. However, despite this the college still made use of wooden temporary buildings, constructed during
5358-440: The Lanchester and Tizard buildings for the Engineering, Electronics and Aerospace studies, located on the north of the square and connected to the pre-existing engineering facilities. The following year the extension of the west building was completed and linked in with a new Senior Common Room (now known as the Staff Social Centre). As a new decade dawned construction work started to become dominated by two large tower structures:
5472-403: The Murray building, housing the Social Sciences departments, in 1975. Development slowed during the 1970s and 1980s as economic problems started to bite and it was during this period that the design concepts of the Basil Spence plan started to be dropped in favour of more conventional styles such as brick. The long-awaited Administration building, designed again by the Sheppard Robson Partnership,
5586-410: The National Oceanography Centre via Wessex Lane Halls, Highfield campus, Portswood , Southampton City Centre and Southampton Central railway station . The other regular routes, the U2 and the U6, run between the City Centre and Bassett Green and Southampton General Hospital respectively. Introduced in 2023, the U7 and U8 lines connect the Highfield campus to Winchester and Chilworth respectively while
5700-418: The Physics building in 1960, the Education building in 1961 and the Library in 1959. Whereas the first two extensions were in the same style as the earlier building, the new Gurney-Dixon library extension was built in a modernist style, linking the three main buildings together and providing space for 150,000 books and 400 readers. The remaining buildings were built under the direction of Sir Basil Spence , who
5814-430: The Students' Union Retail Centre was added in 1995/6 and completed the side of a new social square outside the Union, all constructed and landscaped by London practice Allies and Morrison ; the Social Sciences Graduate Centre in 1997 (accompanying the Murray building) and the long-awaited Synthetic Chemistry building which was located adjacent to the existing chemistry buildings, replacing some older and smaller buildings on
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#17328528345855928-439: The Students' Union) designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott . In 1956, Sir Basil Spence was commissioned to prepare a masterplan of the campus for the foreseeable future. This included incorporating the University Road, that split the 59-acre (24 ha) campus in two and the quarry of Sir Sidney Kimber 's brickyard that itself was split by a stream. Unable to remove the road and the private houses along it, Spence designed many of
6042-433: The Students' Union; an extension to the south of the administration building was opened in 2005 to house a new Student Services Centre and a new building for the Institute for Sound and Vibration Research was constructed in 2006 among the Engineering buildings. The Jubilee Sports Centre and the Student Services Centre were both designed in brick to blend in with the nearby residential and Gutteridge designed buildings. In 2005
6156-400: The Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory in 1991. The final building from this period was a small addition located on Burgess Road next to the Oceanography building. Now housing some of ECS, it opened in 1989 and was designed by Sheppard Robson. Following the slow pace of capital development projects during the previous decade, projects started again at the end of the 1980s. The first building of
6270-403: The UK. Basil Spence Sir Basil Urwin Spence , OM OBE RA (13 August 1907 – 19 November 1976) was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist / Brutalist style. Spence was born in Bombay , Bombay Presidency , British India ,
6384-416: The UK. In the 2023 international university rankings, Southampton ranked 78th ( QS World University Rankings ) and 108th ( Times Higher Education World University Rankings ). The 2022 Round University Ranking ranked Southampton 72nd globally, and the 2022 CWTS Leiden Ranking placed Southampton 85th worldwide. The 2021 U.S. News & World Report ranks Southampton 97th in the world and 11th in
6498-482: The Union's four media outlets, to any of the 200 affiliated societies and 80 sports. The university owns and operates a sports ground for use by students and also operates a sports centre on the main campus. The University of Southampton has its origin as the Hartley Institution which was formed in 1862 from a benefaction by Henry Robinson Hartley (1777–1850). Hartley had inherited a fortune from two generations of successful wine merchants. At his death in 1850, he left
6612-422: The Vice-Presidents, the Deans and representatives from the academic staff in each faculty and those administrative groups most closely associated with educational activities, and representatives of the Students' Union. The Senate is chaired by the Vice-Chancellor. The university comprises five faculties, each with a number of academic units. This current faculty structure came into effect in 2018, taking over from
6726-459: The Zoology building in 1931 (Now the EScience building) was the result of an anonymous donation of £8,000. The social experience was also improved with the creation of an assembly hall in the 1920s large enough to house the student population. During the late 1930s and 40s the university college again started to run out of room and so needed to improve their estate. New teaching buildings were constructed for Chemistry in 1937, Physics (Now occupied by
6840-434: The autumn of 1997, the university experienced Britain's worst outbreak of meningitis , with the death of three students. The university responded to the crisis by organising a mass vaccination programme, and later took the ground-breaking decision to offer all new students vaccinations. The university celebrated its Golden Jubilee on 22 January 2002. By this time, Southampton had research income that represented over half of
6954-455: The bequest of Spence's drawings and office papers, the Sir Basil Spence Archive project was begun by the RCAHMS (now part of HES). A centennial exhibition Basil Spence Back to the Future was organised in Edinburgh, Coventry and London in 2007-8. In 2006, he was the subject of a BBC Scotland documentary, Rebuilding Basil Spence , which revised his place in 20th-century British architecture and asked why he had been for so long overlooked. In 2012,
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#17328528345857068-416: The book Basil Spence Buildings and Projects was published by the RIBA as the culmination of the RCAHMS archive project and the work of the AHRC research project led by Louise Campbell of Warwick University . In 1993 Spence's Hutchesontown C complex was listed by the international conservation organisation DoCoMoMo as one of Scotland's sixty key monuments of the post-war years, in the same year as it
7182-411: The building in March 2018. The Centre for Cancer Immunology is the first of its kind in the UK and contains facilities that will hosts clinical trial units and laboratories that will explore the relationship between cancer and the immune system. The university has seven educational campuses – five in Southampton , one in Winchester , and one international branch in Malaysia . The university operates
7296-436: The buildings facing away from it, using contemporary designs working in concrete, glass and mosaic. During recent decades, new buildings were added that contravened the master plan of Spence, such as the Synthetic Chemistry Building and Mountbatten Building (the latter of which was destroyed by fire in 2005). In 1991, the Highfield Planning Group was formed within the university under the chairmanship of Tim Holt . This led to
7410-459: The campus still contained residential buildings housing commercial services, such as banks, and the new master plan proposed demolishing these, rehousing the services into new buildings and using the space to significantly improve the landscape. The first of these new master plan buildings was the Zepler building in 1998, housing an extension to Electronics and Computer Sciences, and the Gower building in 1999 which housed both student accommodation on
7524-400: The chairman of the University Grants Committee). Student accommodation was expanded throughout the 1960s and 1970s with the acquisition of Chilworth manor and new buildings at the Glen Eyre and Montefiore complexes. In 1987, a crisis developed when the University Grants Committee announced, as part of nationwide cutbacks, a series of reductions in the funding of the university. To eliminate
7638-414: The cost of £5,000. Their old premises on the High Street no longer met the requirements of the Board of Education and the Treasury and so a new site was required for the college to expand. The first campus buildings were opened on 20 June 1914 by the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Haldane . However soon after moving, the two buildings were handed over by the college authorities to the army for use throughout
7752-401: The council; (3) four members appointed by the Senate; (4) one member of the non-teaching staff; (5) the President of the Students' Union. The Senate is the university's primary academic authority, with responsibilities which include the direction and regulation of education and examinations, the award of degrees, and the promotion of research. The Senate has approximately 65 members, including
7866-468: The development of new buildings such as the Jubilee Sports Hall, Student Services Building and the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research . In addition, existing buildings, such as the Hartley Library, were extensively renovated and extended. A new masterplan for the Highfield campus was drawn up in 1998 by Rick Mather , who proposed that the University Road should become a tree-lined boulevard backed by white-rendered buildings. He also contributed some of
7980-404: The end of Spence's master plan the next new building to be constructed on campus, the University Health Service in 1992, breached one of Spence's fundamental principles by blocking the flow of vegetation linking the western gardens with the common . The new master plan also saw the expansion of the university onto the new Avenue Campus , resulting in the Arts subjects to move to that new campus. As
8094-440: The end of fighting, in time for the transfer from the high street premises in 1920. At this time, Highfield Hall, a former country house and overlooking Southampton Common , for which a lease had earlier been secured, commenced use as a hall of residence for female students. South Hill, on what is now the Glen Eyre Halls Complex was also acquired, along with South Stoneham House to house male students. Further expansion through
8208-537: The engineering faculty and to Lloyd's Register's Global Technology Centre. The university joined the Science and Engineering South Consortium (SES) on 9 May 2013. The SES was created to pool the collective insights and resources of the University of Oxford , University of Cambridge , Imperial College London and University College London to innovate and explore new ideas through collaboration whilst providing efficiencies of scale and shared utilisation of facilities. This
8322-424: The expected losses, the budgets and deficits subcommittee proposed reducing staff numbers. This proposal was met with demonstrations on campus and was later reworked (to reduce the redundancies and reallocate the reductions in faculties funding) after being rejected by the university Senate . By the mid-1980s through to the 1990s, the university looked to expand with new buildings on the Highfield campus, developing
8436-595: The final route, the U9, runs an infrequent service between Southampton General hospital and Townhill Park . Students who live in halls of residence provided by the university receive an annual bus pass, allowing them to use all Unilink services for free. Responsibility for running the university is held formally by the Chancellor and led at the executive level by the Vice-Chancellor, currently Prof Mark E. Smith. The key bodies in
8550-529: The hall itself was by staff from the university's Institute of Sound and Vibration Research ensuring the hall's good acoustics. Following on from these high impact developments, the campus saw several smaller developments: Clarkson House, a small halls of residence suitable for disabled students and now the Early Years Centre, opened in 1978 just south of the Administration building and partly funded by
8664-602: The mid-1960s. As a result, the university estate needed to expand and the inadequate facilities needed to be replaced. The end of the 1950s saw an explosion of building work in a whole variety of styles. On the West site, a new computer building was built in 1958 and a Tidal model of Southampton Water constructed in 1957 (now the John Hansard Gallery ), both designed by Ronald H Sims . In addition, Gutteridge and Gutteridge were undertaking several extensions to pre-existing buildings:
8778-571: The mid-1990s, the university gained two new campuses, as the Winchester School of Art and La Sainte Union College became part of the university. A new school for Nursing and Midwifery was also created and went on to provide training for NHS professionals in central-southern England. This involved a huge increase in student numbers and the establishment of sub-campuses in Basingstoke , Winchester , Portsmouth and Newport, Isle of Wight . In
8892-525: The new EEE building, which was opened in 2007 as a space for ECS, the School of Education and as an Entrance building for the campus and features a glass wall showcasing an 'internal street'. The latest building to be added to the campus is the Life Sciences building, housing facilities for the Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine . Designed by global architecture firm NBBJ ,
9006-539: The new decade to be completed was the new Mountbatten building, allowing the Electronics and Computer Science department to move out of the Engineering accommodation. Completed in 1991 it was designed by the John S Bonnington Partnership, Basil Spence's former practice and who had worked on the campus buildings since the 1960s, and featured a design of aluminium cladding for the building that proved controversial. That same year
9120-459: The new site of the renamed Southampton University College. However, the outbreak of the First World War six weeks later meant no lectures could take place there, as the buildings were handed over by the college authorities for use as a military hospital. To cope with the volume of casualties, wooden huts were erected at the rear of the building. These were donated to university by the War Office after
9234-591: The newer buildings such as the Zepler and Gower Buildings. Avenue Campus is currently home to the Faculty of Humanities, with the exception of Music, and is located a short distance away from the main Highfield campus. The site previously housed the Southampton Tramsheds and Richard Taunton's College , of which the existing building still stands on the site. It was purchased by the university from Southampton City Council for £2 million in December 1993 so that
9348-467: The official warrant drawings and only appears as a signature on the artist's perspective). In 1934 Spence married, and the Kininmonth & Spence practice merged with Rowand Anderson & Paul. Balfour Paul died in 1938, leaving Kininmonth and Spence in charge of the renamed Rowand Anderson & Paul & Partners. Spence's work was now concentrated on exhibition design, including three pavilions for
9462-546: The same angled fin concept as found at Coventry Cathedral). He also designed Trawsfynydd nuclear power station, which was unveiled in Snowdonia , north Wales , in 1968. Also in 1964, with support from the Nuffield Foundation, the University of Southampton built a theatre on its campus. Spence worked closely with Sir Richard Southern as consultant for the interior design and layout of the theatre. The Spence practice
9576-694: The same design were erected across the campus: the Nightingale building was built along University Road in 2000 to house the School of Midwifery (and now the Faculty of Health Sciences as a whole), the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute building in 2003 next to the Murray building and an extension of the Hartley Library into Engineering Square, completed in 2004. Necessitating the demolition of some minor buildings in
9690-989: The school until its closure in 2009. The university opened its first international campus in Iskandar Puteri , Malaysia, as the University of Southampton Malaysia in October 2012. Located in the state of Johor near the southwestern tip of Malaysia, the campus is located within EduCity in Iskandar Puteri - a new city comprising universities and institutes of higher education, academia-industry action and R&D centres, as well as student accommodation, shared sports and recreational facilities. The campus operates courses in engineering, it offers an Engineering foundation year programme and MEng programmes in Aeronautics and Astronautics , Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. All programmes have been approved by
9804-543: The second phase, which was finished in 1959. A third phase was completed in 1966 and included a museum to showcase Lord Kelvin 's old experimental apparatus. Some of this is still on display in the Kelvin Building today, with other items having been moved to form part of an exhibit at the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery . On 14 November 1940, Coventry's Anglican Cathedral was extensively damaged by German bombing,
9918-539: The site and thereby closing off Engineering Square, and was built between 1996 and 1998 according to the design of London architects the Wilson Mason Partnership. Following the lobbying of the council from the university and Chesterton Consulting, local planning laws were altered, removing the need for additional parking spaces on campus. This change led to the introduction of the Unilink bus service, and also made
10032-712: The son of Urwin Archibald Spence, an assayer with the Royal Mint . He was educated at the John Connon School, operated by the Bombay Scottish Education Society, and was then sent back to Scotland to attend George Watson's College in Edinburgh from 1919 to 1925. He enrolled at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) in 1925, studying architecture, where he secured a maintenance scholarship on the strength of
10146-575: The square, the Library extension housed new facilities for Archives and Special collections, additional shelf and reader space. In addition to these, the building boom continued with several other buildings in their own style. The Students' Union building was extended in 2001 to include a new nightclub and cinema facility; the Jubilee Sports Centre was completed in 2004 housing a swimming pool, large sports hall and gym located on University Road next to
10260-593: The total income. In recent years a number of new landmark buildings have been added as part of the estates development. New constructions on the main campus include the Jubilee Sports Complex in 2004, the EEE (ECS, Education and Entrance) building in 2007, the new Mountbatten building in 2008 housing the School of Electronics and Computer Science following a fire and the Life Sciences building in 2010. In addition,
10374-530: The town could remember. After initial years of financial struggle, the Hartley Institute became the Hartley College in 1883. This move was followed by increasing numbers of students, teaching staff, an expansion of the facilities and registered lodgings for students. In 1902, the Hartley College became the Hartley University College , a degree awarding branch of the University of London . This
10488-621: The university college. All of these buildings had been constructed on the eastern side of University Road but in 1939 the Western side of the campus was developed with the construction of the West Building in 1939/40. Built on the site of Sir Sidney Kimber 's brickyard, the building housed the refectory, common rooms and the Students' Union and was further extended to include an assembly hall, suitable for performances and examinations, in 1948. Following
10602-412: The university could expand – planning regulations meant that excess land on the Highfield campus couldn't be built on and had to be reserved for future car parking spaces. The car parking spaces have now been built. The departments moved onto the campus in 1996. The campus consists of the original Tauntons building from the early 20th century but redeveloped with a glass-fronted courtyard and extension and
10716-622: The university governance structure are the Council and Senate. The Council is the governing body of the university. It is ultimately responsible for the overall planning and management of the university. The council is also responsible for ensuring that the funding made available to the university by the Higher Education Funding Council for England is used as prescribed. The council is composed of members from 5 different classes, namely (1) officers; (2) eight lay members appointed by
10830-515: The university operates a School of Art based in nearby Winchester and an international branch in Malaysia offering courses in Engineering. In 2024, the university was the first in the UK to be awarded a licence to establish a campus in India . Each campus is equipped with its own library facilities. The annual income of the institution for 2022–23 was £722.4 million of which £122.1 million
10944-521: The university's arts and textiles courses that are part of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. The school itself was established in the 1960s and was integrated into the University of Southampton in 1996. The campus contains the original school buildings from the 1960s, in addition to structures built when the merger occurred and in 1998 when the Textile Conservation Centre moved to the site from Hampton Court Palace . The centre remained with
11058-518: The university. Originally established in 1983 as Chilworth Science Park, named after the manor house that is now a luxury hotel and conference centre, the park houses business incubator units to help these companies. The companies occupying the park range in expertise and fields including oil and gas exploration, pharmaceuticals, nanotechnology and optoelectronics , with three of the twelve successful spin-out companies created since 2000 being floated on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) with
11172-597: The university. Student and staff numbers grew throughout the next couple of decades as a response to the Robbins Report . The campus also grew significantly, when in July 1961 the university was given the approval to acquire some 200 houses on or near the campus by the Borough Council. In addition, more faculties and departments were founded, including Medicine and Oceanography (despite the discouragement of Sir John Wolfenden ,
11286-516: The upper floors and commercial units on the ground floor and currently houses all the banks on campus and the bookshop. These two were designed by Rick Mather and Wilson Mason and used the white rendered style that Mather felt complemented both the brick buildings of the Gutteridge designs and the concrete designs of Basil Spence. It also created a new 'gateway' for the university along Burgess Road. Following these two buildings, several more buildings of
11400-553: The war, much of the university's capital budget went into purchasing new land, including the brickworks behind the West Building. At the same time the Institute of Education was given its own building in 1948, extensions were made to the Zoology building and the remainder of the Chemistry building completed. Following the creation of the university by royal charter in 1952, numbers at the university were set to increase again to around 2,500 by
11514-530: The wood-clad building was created as a direct result of the Boldrewood Campus redevelopment and the need to rehouse the faculties based on that campus. Completed in 2010, it has been recognised by the Royal Institute of British Architects . The campus is located in the Highfield area of Southampton and is bordered by Southampton Common along its western edge and Burgess Road on its northern edge. It
11628-627: Was knighted in 1960 for his work at Coventry, while the cathedral was still being built. On 23 February 2012 the Royal Mail released a stamp featuring Coventry Cathedral as part of its "Britons of Distinction" series. In 1959, Spence secured two important commissions, for the British Embassy in Rome (completed 1971), and for the Hyde Park Cavalry Barracks in London (completed 1970). He
11742-504: Was after inspection of the teaching and finances by the University College Grants Committee, and donations from Council members (including William Darwin the then Treasurer). An increase in student numbers in the following years motivated fund raising efforts to move the college to greenfield land around Back Lane (now University Road) in the Highfield area of Southampton. On 20 June 1914, Viscount Haldane opened
11856-513: Was also responsible for designing the high-rise Hutchesontown C housing in Glasgow. These were intended to replace the notorious slum tenements in the Gorbals area of the city. A combination of social deprivation and exclusion in the relevant areas, coupled to poor execution of his designs meant that the developments created as many problems as they solved, and led to their demolition in 1993. Spence
11970-688: Was also responsible for modernist buildings on The Canongate in Edinburgh, opposite the new Scottish Parliament and in view of Holyrood Palace . This area is named Brown's Close and was listed in 2008. Other work in the 1960s included the concept design for the executive wing of the New Zealand Parliament Buildings in Wellington , nicknamed "The Beehive", and Abbotsinch Airport (now Glasgow Airport). In 1960, Spence designed Mortonhall Crematorium in Edinburgh's Braid Hills area (based on
12084-457: Was appointed as Consultant Architect in 1956. All of the buildings designed by him used mainly concrete and glass wrapped in mosaic and were each centred around a focal area either to the east or west of University Road, ignoring the road in doing so. The first buildings were completed in 1959 and included the Froude building, built for Social Sciences and located in the centre of Engineering Square, and
12198-492: Was awarded an OBE in 1948 for his work in exhibition design, work which he continued with the Sea and Ships Pavilion for the 1951 Festival of Britain . That year he opened a London office, moving there permanently from 1953. A second office was opened in 1956 at Canonbury, which became the creative hub of the practice. Spence was External Professor of Architecture at the University of Leeds from 1955 to 1957 and from 1958 to 1960 he
12312-551: Was completed in 1965 and designed in brick by the Sheppard Robson Partnership . The pace continued with three buildings completed in close proximity in 1966 along the southern edge of the west side of the campus. These buildings were notable in that their layout differed from the plans laid out by Basil Spence a decade earlier, although the styling remained the same. These are the Physics building, complete with observatory,
12426-546: Was constructed south of the library in 1970 and allowed these departments to move out of the main library building for the first time. This was followed in 1974 with the long-awaited opening of the Turner Sims Concert Hall. Resulting from a £30,000 bequest from Margaret Grassam Sims for this purpose, the new concert hall would allow music performances to move out of the increasingly busy Nuffield Theatre and into an environment specifically designed for music. The design of
12540-482: Was established. On 29 April 1952, Queen Elizabeth II granted the University of Southampton a royal charter , the first to be given to a university during her reign, which enabled it to award degrees. Six faculties were created: Arts, Science, Engineering, Economics, Education and Law. The first University of Southampton degrees were awarded on 4 July 1953, following the appointment of the Duke of Wellington as Chancellor of
12654-510: Was for an unexecuted cultural centre for Bahrain , which he worked on during illness in 1976. Some of his final commissions were built after his death; for example, his design for the new Glasgow Royal Infirmary was completed in 1981. Spence died in November 1976 at his home at Yaxley, Suffolk and was buried at nearby Thornham Parva . His practice, Spence, Ferguson and Glover, continued until 1992 before being disbanded. In 2004, following
12768-477: Was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £631.3 million. The University of Southampton currently has 14,705 undergraduate and 7,960 postgraduate students, making it the largest university by higher education students in the South East region. The University of Southampton Students' Union , provides support, representation and social activities for the students ranging from involvement in
12882-602: Was rearranged in 1964, with the Canonbury office being renamed Sir Basil Spence OM RA, and the second London office Spence Bonnington & Collins. The Edinburgh office was also renamed for its partners, Spence Glover & Ferguson. From 1961 to 1968, Spence was Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy . Through the 1970s, Spence continued to work on public and private commissions, universities and offices including Aston University Library and Management Centre. His last work
12996-536: Was the President of the Royal Institute of British Architects . Basil Spence & Partners were responsible for the redevelopment and extension of the University of Glasgow 's Kelvin Building, which houses its School of Physics and Astronomy. The project was carried out in three phases. The first, 1947–1952, added a new lecture theatre and housed a synchrotron. Teaching laboratories and another lecture theatre were added in
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