Olivieri Office   Italy   The new Faculty of Engineering of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (UniBZ) is the outcome of a competition organized by the NOI Techpark Südtirol/Alto Adige, won in 2018 by the Italian firm Olivieri Office, based in Genoa and Trent. It is located

Ramón Esteve   Spain   The project to transform the San Juan Bautista Asylum in Valencia into the European University’s new campus in the city combined heritage preservation with a modern functional design. The former hospice, raised in neoclassical style in 1873, stands o

Weyell Zipse Architekten    Switzerland   This project by the Basel firm of Christian Weyell and Kai Zipse is the outcome of a 2018 competition. On a tract of land of about 7,600 square meters, the Guggach elementary school in Zurich makes space for twelve classrooms organized in symmetrical

Clément Blanchet Architecture   France   Located at the intersection of Rue de Lubeck and Rue de Boissière in Paris, this project creates a new campus for the French branch of the Instituto Maragoni. For this purpose, the firm Clément Blanchet undertook the renovation of a historic 19th-cen

Alberto Campo Baeza   Armenia   The Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) invited the practice of Alberto Campo Baeza to take part in a competition to build a school in Armavir, very close to Mount Ararat. Having won the bid, the firm was assigned the task of designing a nursery at the e

LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   The new Franklin district is taking shape on a redevelopment site in northeast Mannheim. On grounds that were once a US military base stood a school building. The brief of the competition won by LRO called for two new constructions: a new classroom b

Mónica Alberola   Spain   In 2019, a proposal drawn up by Mónica Alberola in collaboration with María Casariego, Enrique de Teresa, and Guiomar Martín won the competition to expand and renovate pavilions 7 and 8 of the School of Health in Madrid, within the Chamartín campus o

Urko Sánchez Architects   Kenya   The Waldorf School in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, was thought out as a small village for children nestled within the woods. With organic shapes to fit in with the natural environment, the buildings had to be constructed quickly and cost-efficiently

bxd arquitectura    Spain   This building expands the Camp Joliu school complex in the Tarragona town of Arbós, in the Baix Penedès region. Wrapped in white concrete, the elongated two-story construction is set within a rectangular plot, close to the boundaries of the land, whi

Richter architectes et associés   France   The school complex is located in a regular, orthogonal urban grid of Mitry-Mory, in the Île-de-France region. The program joins an eight-classroom nursery, a leisure center, and a lunchroom for preschool and primary-education classes. The project dra

José María Sánchez García   Spain   José María Sánchez García was commissioned to build the new law school on Universidad CEU San Pablo’s Moncloa campus, in Madrid. Construction is already underway at Julián Romea 16, a few meters from the current location. The 8,500-square-meter new b

MASS Design Group    Rwanda   Located in the village of Gashora, in the Bugesera district of eastern Rwanda, this educational campus is devoted to conservation agriculture, a sustainable field that seeks to increase the productivity and resilience of the agrarian system while pro

RCR Arquitectes   United Arab Emirates   Like a small city, the Dar Al Marefa school in Dubai spreads out in modular volumes set between streets and squares, encouraging discovery and learning. Using standardized components, the project of the Catalonian firm RCR – Rafael Aranda, Carme Pige

Junquera arquitectos   Spain   The great challenge in this project is to give the school a space of its own, separate from its surroundings, on a small plot surrounded by one-family homes. The solution chosen involved sinking the ground level, creating a space that would be adequa

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   The new classroom and library building is organized as a compact structure, with a perimeter bay of classrooms that braces, in its interior, three large voids placed diagonally along the section that harbors two multipurpose rooms and a canteen. The

NP2F Marion Bernard Point Supreme Seyler & Lucan   France   The higher studies of architecture, landscape design, and planning are now concentrated in a new urban campus: L’Institut Méditerranéen de la Ville et des Territoires. Although the concrete structure of light color tones has the effect of unifying th

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   FORUM UZH is a new education and research campus in Zurich’s city center, providing space for almost 6,000 people to study, research, and work. The project, designed for a variety of uses, includes a large learning center and library, laboratories, a

Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos   Mexico   The firm Sordo Madaleno designed a new home, in Zapopan, for one of Mexico’s most long-lived football teams, the Guadalajara-based Atlas F.C. Called Academia Atlas, it serves six professional fields and includes facilities for science applied to spor

Donghua Chen Studio   China   In a limited span of time, during summer vacation, the Nanhai Primary School in Shenzhen, China, was renovated. A series of operations were carried out to make the most of all useful floor area, activate residual spaces, and install solar protection.

Bernardo Bader Architekten   Austria   Bernardo Bader’s scheme for an elementary school and gymnasium in Au, in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, was the winner of a competition held in 2020. These independent volumes complemented the preexisting buildings in forming an education campus.

Article 25   Niger   Niger’s education system faces huge challenges. The African country currently has the highest birth rate in the world (seven children born to every woman on average), and simultaneously struggles to keep young people in the classroom, particularly be

Zaha Hadid Architects   Uzbekistan   The firm Zaha Hadid Architects has been announced as the designers, in collaboration with the engineers of Buro Happold, of a research facility named in honor of the 15th-century poet Alisher Navoi and to go up in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.

krft   United Kingdom   Brick and flint in gray tones clad this performing arts center built for Brighton College as part of a masterplan to revamp the British campus that includes OMA’s School for Sports and Science. The Dutch firm krft designed the building in collaborati

Although the version currently in circulation is the one the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted in 1959, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child drew from a text approved by the League of Nations in Geneva almost four decades before, d

A Sydney public school has been crowned the World Building of the Year, beating competition from towering skyscrapers, museums and major transport hubs to claim the title. Darlington public school in Chippendale won the major building design prize at

Seated on chairs conferred on them by their credentials, professors preached while the students, sitting on long benches or standing on the sides of the room when there was no more space for them, listened with attention, took down notes, or succumbe

On the campus of Brown University, the New York studio REX – with Joshua Ramus, a former partner at OMA, at the helm – has completed a versatile performing arts center that addresses the requirements of a renowned full student symphony orchestra and

The expansion of its Teatinos Campus has enabled the University of Málaga to equip itself with cutting-edge facilities and greatly improve its offer of academic programs. One of the beneficiaries of this is the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therap

In education, too, there have been classes. While the great universities born out of medieval enlightenment took up large and sometimes luxurious buildings, primary education practically remained restricted to the domestic scale – to small classrooms

Oliver Wainwright   Andrés Jaque has on the outskirts of Madrid broken ground in school architecture and given tangible form to an innovative pedagogical method.

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Pupils asked for a building without walls that was like a garden and a spaceship. The dazzling result, housed within a living skin for insects and fungi, is one of the most inventive schools ever built. "It looks like a robot made of butter,” was one

Eduardo Prieto   The battle of ‘modernity’ was waged not only in the field of forms and techniques, but also in that of ideals. It has been necessary to acknowledge that modernity was ‘ideological’ for it to be assessed with detachment, and that the modern ideology h

EPFL’s School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) invites applications for a faculty position in Architectural Design and Heritage. The position is open at the level of Assistant (tenure-track) or Associate Professor (tenured)

Para hacer prosperar las áreas con menos recursos de la Ciudad de México, el gobierno regional ha puesto en marcha una red de centros educativos para personas analfabetas o que han abandonado los estudios. En el de la colonia Presidentes, una de las

The career of Andrés Jaqué can conceptually be described as being halfway between architectural design and critical activism, and geographically it is divided between Madrid and New York City, where he has been teaching since the year 2013, and direc

Commissioned by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the non-profit organization American Friends of Le Korsa (AFLK), the New York-based architect Toshiko Mori has raised a school for children aged 5 to 10 in the remote Senegalese town of Fass. A

In the village of Rudrapur, located in the Dinajpur Disrtict of northern Bangladesh, the German architect Anna Heringer – in conjunction with Veronika Lang and the non-profit organization Dipshikha – recently completed a therapy center for people wit

Along with museums, opera houses, and national assemblies, a specifically modern type of architecture that developed in the course of the 19th century was the center for teaching and learning. First were the universities, which were updated to serve

Soon after the Dublin-based Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara learned that they had come away with the 2010 Pritzker Prize (see Arquitectura Viva 223), it was announced that their firm, Grafton Architects, had carried the day in the competition for

Directed by Miguel Martínez and Pau Batalla, the firm Emac – an acronym for Mediterranean space for contemporary architecture – carried the day in the ideas competition for a preschool and primary school situated in La Pobla Llarga, a municipality in

Prejudice associates private schools in the English-speaking countryside with antiquated but decorous Gothic or neo-Gothic architectures featuring ivy-covered walls, colorful stained glass windows, and boiseries worthy of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts. So

Brutalism with a friendly countenance: this is how one might venture to describe the architecture that Grafton Architects – Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara – have been carrying out for the past twenty years in Ireland, Europe, and America, from t

Observer   Helen Holmes    Formerly known as ArtCenter/South Florida, Oolite Arts is an organization that has worked for decades in order to provide affordable work space for visual artists in Miami, a mission that has become increasingly difficult in a city saturated by block

The Guardian   Rowan Moore   In a departure from the gothic image of English private schools, Brighton College’s new building, designed by OMA, is an expression of global ambition. Think of an English private school and you will probably think of somewhere gothic. Something like

Universities are mothers that nurture knowledge, depositaries of wisdom that guarantee the continuity of our civilization, and also foci of innovation that serve to steer societies towards unknown roads.

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