Dorte Mandrup   United Kingdom   The aesthetic of the school dialogs with the buildings on the sides, and the facade folds from the street forming vegetal terraces. Though half of the monolithic structure is preserved, a timber framework reinforces and lightens it visually…

Dorte Mandrup   United States   The new Fay Jones School subdivision embodies the woodworking tradition of the city. A subtle glass covering that is superimposed to the wood structure lets passers-by see the laboratories, the exhibitions, or the workspaces from the street…

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects   United Kingdom   The contour of the building adapts to the conditions of its context: to the west it sinks and creates a covered open-air space; to the east it opens up to the street to welcome students; and to the south the facade is transformed into a winter garden

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects   United Kingdom   The lack of cohesion among the different-style constructions in the area is resolved with new public cores and social spaces that connect the parts to configure the new building. Despite its marked geometry, the piece blends finely with its context.

Sou Fujimoto   Switzerland   A rigorously orthogonal grid is used as a composition tool in working out a flexible arrangement of the different programs housed within a center for university-level business studies. The regular scheme generates cubic modules stacked in a stepped f

Grafton Architects   Ireland   From its original location, the University of Limerick has expanded over the years and is now situated on both sides of the River Shannon, the longest and largest in Ireland. The University’s expansion provided the location for the new Medical School

Grafton Architects   Ireland   On the northwestern edge of the Belfield campus of the University College Dublin, the Urban Institute joins an original collection of mainly 19th century Masonic School buildings – now called Richview – which are loosely organized around a lime tree

Grafton Architects   France   The masterplan for this plateau proposed boulevards, streets, and squares with the poetic integration of landscape and ecology. It referred to the legacy of the great tradition of institutions such as Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard, which were reinte

Boltshauser Architekten   Switzerland   The orthogonal arrangement of the three existing buildings is extended with two new volumes and several parks, both on the ground floor and on the upper levels, which form a complex marked by the original foundations...

Sauerbruch Hutton   United Kingdom   This building, housing three faculties of the University of Sheffield, responds to its heterogeneous situation between a highly frequented road and a quieter campus area. The project adapts to the masterplan, also by the studio, for the Modern Langua

Rafael Moneo Belén Moneo Jeffrey Brock   United States   The plot on which these laboratories are located was the last one available at Columbia University’s Morningside campus, and therefore the new gateway to the campus from its Manhattanville expansion. From the start it was decided that the new buildin

Rafael Moneo   United States   Located on the historic College Hill, the RISD campus is scattered, which underscores the quality of the buildings while boosting urban life. The plot for Chace Center was located in the area around Memorial Hall, where the domestic character of Bene

Rafael Moneo   United States   The laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering (LISE) was the answer to a necessary extension for the Department of Physics at Harvard University. The brief called for 3,000 square meters of free space, 1,400 square meters for high-performance

Rafael Moneo   United States   Following a long selection process, the Davis Museum was Moneo’s first commission outside Spain. It was received with great joy because, having decided to return to Madrid after five years as chairman of architecture at Harvard, Moneo would be able t

Feilden Fowles   United Kingdom   A university refectory provides a counterpoint to the Victorian campus around it and combines its traditional ceremonial role with the warmth of a more informal space...

SANAA   Israel   The new campus of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design sits atop a hill in Jerusalem’s Russian Compound, one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city center. The school’s traditionally separate nine departments contain studios, classrooms, workshops

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The CEU campus Moncloa includes several university buildings raised at different times for education and research. The new Faculty of Humanities and Communication Sciences is located on a triangular site in Madrid’s Colonia Metropolitana. The plot’s

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   A work of the London practice of Niall McLaughlin, the new library in the historical setting of Cambridge University has for 2022 won the Stirling Prize, awarded by Royal Institute od British Architects (RIBA). The ensemble of simple brick volumes re

Formline   Canada   In the heart of the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver stands this institution that addresses the story of the indigenous children who for more…

Alcolea + Tárrago Roberto Ercilla Lecumberri & Cidoncha   Spain   The government Building is located at the Teatinos campus, west of the city of Málaga. It hosts the presidency of the University among several other services, which were scattered through the city until now. The project also includes an additional 80

Adjaye Associates   United States   The new museum is located in the heart of historic city of Princeton University and will go up on the current site of the museum. The design is conceived as a “campus within the campus,” containing, aside from the exhibition area, Marquand Library, o

Tadao Ando   Mexico   Located in the second largest industrial city in Mexico, the University of Monterrey is a private institution with more than 12,000 students. Its large campus was rounded off with this building, the RGS Center, designed for newly-established schools

Herzog & de Meuron   United Kingdom   The Royal College of Art has officially opened its new campus in the Battersea district of southwest London, beside its old premises. The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron won the 2016 competition through a flexible scheme that would adapt to the constan

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)

Chicago Tribune   Blair Kamin   Diller Scofidio + Renfro conceived the design as an innovative addition to Chicago’s renowned collection of tall buildings. The tower transitions from a city-engaging ground floor to contemplative clusters of meeting rooms above. The new structure’s

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

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

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.

It has been announced by the College of Architecture of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago that the winner of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) – awarded every two years to the finest works of architecture carried out in t

Shortly before the University of Mexico pinned on him the Attolini Medal, the Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza received this year’s COAM Award for the Sports Center of Francisco de Vitoria University in Pozuelo de Alarcón, in Madrid. It is an i

Designed by the Boston studio Machado & Silvetti, the Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life is a complex in the New York University campus, harboring its numerous religious associations. Not being linked to a specific creed, the symbolic

With a staggered facade 126 meters long, David Chipperfield has given the prestigious HEC School of Management in Paris a new gateway building. Located in the Jouy-en-Josa campus in the Versailles district, 16 kilometers from the center of the capita

La oficina de Rem Koolhaas ha ganado el concurso para ampliar la escuela de ingenieros École Centrale del campus de Saclay, en París, y desarrollar el plan urbanístico de la zona. Basada en el desarrollo del concepto ‘ciudad laboratorio’, la propuest

Compacto, totalmente desmontable y flexible a los cambios de uso: estas tres características definen la propuesta del equipo formado por H Arquitectes y dataAE, que ha resultado la ganadora en el concurso para el centro de investigación de la Univers

El estudio EMBT (Miralles Tagliabue) ha sido el ganador del concurso internacional para el nuevo campus de la Universidad de Negocios Fudan en Shanghái, con instalaciones para 8.000 alumnos. Compuesta por una serie de bloques dipuestos en torno a un

El nuevo edificio para la Universidad Popular Infantil de Gandía (Valencia), diseñado por los madrileños Ángela García de Paredes e Ignacio García Pedrosa, parte de una premisa singular y razonable: preservar a seis moreras que ya existían en el parq

El proyecto de Francisco Mangado y Ramón Sanabria para la Universidad de Torribera, en Santa Coloma de Gramanet, quiere ser una lección sobre cuánto y, sobre todo, cómo hay que construir. Desde el punto de vista urbano, el nuevo edificio conserva el

Concebido como un cuerpo flotante y preciso que dialoga con la estética singular del entorno, el nuevo edificio construido en Nueva York por Rafael Moneo en colaboración con el Moneo Brock Studio, alberga las nuevas dotaciones —biblioteca, laboratori

La primera ciudad carbón neutral del mundo estrena institución: el Masdar Institute, una universidad dedicada al desarrollo de tecnologías sostenibles. Para dar ejemplo, toda la energía utilizada procede de un gran huerto solar que además de cubrir l

El equipo formado por Fernanda Canales, Alejandro Hernández y Arquitectura 911sc (Saidée Springall y José Castillo) ha resultado ganador del concurso convocado por la Universidad de Guadalajara para el conjunto de espacios escénicos del Centro Cultur

La Universidad de Economía de Viena (conocida por sus siglas alemanas, WU, Wirtschaftsuniversität) ha decidido quién construirá los seis edificios de su nuevo campus. En la lista se encuentran dos españoles: Carme Pinós y Eduardo Arroyo quienes se en

A iniciativa del presidente Yahya Jammeh, autodenominado ‘dictador del desarrollo’, la nueva Universidad de Gambia agrupará las cuatro instituciones de educación superior actualmente en funcionamiento en el país. El proyecto, un conjunto de volúmenes

En el campus de la Universidad Miguel Hernández en Elche, el estudio Moho Arquitectura —formado por Carlos Abadía, Ignacio Bautista, Pablo García Mora y Ernesto Sierra—ha construido una ‘isla informática’. Se trata de un pabellón que ofrece conexión

Tras el incendio que destruyó en mayo de 2008 la antigua escuela de arquitectura de Delft, obra de Broek y Bakema y gran referente arquitectónico holandés, se habilitó el antiguo edificio principal del campus universitario, Julianalaan, restaurado en