Reflections on Building the University of Notre Dame Campus
Doug Marsh, vice president emeritus for facilities design and operations and University architect at Notre Dame, has shaped the campus over his 30 years of leadership. With projects like Campus Crossroads, the Arts Gateway, and global academic centers, he has overseen a 55% campus expansion while advancing sustainability and safety initiatives. Uncover highlights of his career, from guiding Notre Dame’s Campus Plan to leaving a lasting legacy of beauty, functionality, and innovation.
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Doug Marsh ’82, vice president emeritus for facilities design and operations and University architect at Notre Dame, has shaped the campus over his 30 years of leadership. With projects like Campus Crossroads, the Arts Gateway, and global academic centers, he has overseen a 55% campus expansion while advancing sustainability and safety initiatives. This lecture highlights his career, from guiding Notre Dame’s Campus Plan to leaving a lasting legacy of beauty, functionality, and innovation.
Speaker:
Doug Marsh, Vice President Emeritus of Facilities Design and Operations and University Architect at Notre Dame
Meet the Speaker: Doug Marsh '82
As vice president for facilities design and operations and university architect, Doug Marsh ’82 was responsible for leading the successful planning, design, and construction of new campus facilities as well as renovation, maintenance, and utilities projects. Under his leadership, the University has designed and constructed scores of new and renovated campus buildings. He was also responsible for Notre Dame’s utilities, maintenance, and landscape teams which cares for more than 200 buildings and 1,000 acres of campus grounds. Facilities Design and Operations also hosts the University Facilities Information team whose responsibilities encompass the tracking of facilities use data.
Doug, a native of South Bend, received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1982 and worked in private practice prior to joining the University’s staff in 1995. He retired after a 30-year career at Notre Dame in 2025. He and his wife, Pam, have two sons: Adam, a 2011 Notre Dame alumnus, and the lead paleontologist at the Petrified Forest National Park, and Alex, a 2014 Notre Dame alumnus, an architect working in Indianapolis, Indiana.