Chan's Plan

Lo-Yi Chan '54, architect of the College's Rockefeller Center, was back on campus this summer updating the master plan he wrote for Dartmouth in 1983. Chan's report on the College's facilities analyzes trends within the institution, gauges future needs, and presents recommendations for buildings, landscaping, roads, and parking.

"Everyone we talk to is a planner," Chan says, noting that he and his team interviewed people throughout the campus. "The process of planning is probably more important than the product." Don't expect a new vision of Dartmouth for the twenty-first century. Instead, says Chan, the update does some "tinkering."

"I think the changes will be incremental," he says. Chan will examine issues like additional parking for the Hanover Inn, student social spaces, and dorms. An independent architect and campus planner in New York City, Chan is a Hanover "townie" who moved to Hanover when he was ten.