Zaha Hadid Architects' Oxford Pavilion Stands out by Fitting in
At Oxford, the Middle East Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects is a stainless-steel-clad facility that stands out by fitting in.
Educational Architecture
A Library That Caters to Every Kind of Study Habit
A new library at Williams College is flexible enough to fit rapidly evolving collections, technologies, and student study habits.
Bjarke Ingels Bestows His Winning Touch on Old High School
BIG's sports and arts expansion at a Copenhagen high school shows that academic spaces need not be the center of scholastic life.
Students Grow Their Own Food at This Experimental Kindergarten
In Vietnam's Dong Nai province, an experimental kindergarten designed by Vo Trong Nghia Architects inculcates young pupils in the ways of food cultivation.
If You're Wondering about the Future of Interior Design, Look to the Schools
Today's graduate students are taking on complex and timely issues that designers in every specialty need to be concerned with.
With Cornell University's Planned Ho Fine Arts Library, the Stacks are Center Stage
Cornell University's planned Ho Fine Arts Library will feature a technology-driven design that hopes to balance digital databases with the printed word.
Temple University's Morgan Hall Is a New Model for Student Housing
In northern Philadelphia, MGA Partners builds an urban oasis for Temple University students.
Glasgow School of Art Begins Recovery After Fire, Needs Your Help
The school has set up a fund to help restore the historic library designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Why We Should Use Design Thinking to Fundamentally Rethink Education
How school curriculums are incorporating new concepts of "design thinking"—an architect's perspective.
The Edible Schoolyard, Where Students Farm, Cook, And Learn
The Edible Schoolyard project brings farming and cooking into the classroom.
How 5 California Schools Approach Campus Design (Part 2)
In the second of a two-part essay, five campus architects speak about how their schools are changing.
How 5 California Schools Approach Campus Design (Part 1)
The first of a two-part essay, five campus architects speak about how their schools are changing.
LTL Architects' New Student Center Builds on DeafSpace Principles
Faced with the ultimate universal design challenge, LTL Architects creates a new student center based on DeafSpace principles.
Rudolph Renovation Architects designLAB on "Courting" a Hero
designLAB rennovated a Paul Rudolph building at UMass Dartmouth, and we interviewed them about how they dealt with making changes to a historic structure.
Places That Work: Provide Choices for Users
Successful spaces give users some control of their environment.
Modernists At Play
The children of midcentury masters reflect on growing up in a world surrounded by design.
X Marks the Spots
Columbia’s Studio-X, a think tank with labs all over the world, may be a new model for design education.
Design-Build Students Transform Juvenile Detention Center
Design educators and practitioners routinely assert, with remarkable assurance, that design thinking strategies can deliver the “game-changing” ideas needed to address the critical problems of our times. Frequently, it seems, we fall in love with the promise(s) of these ideas…
Students Review Coop Himmelblau's L.A. School Campus
Coop Himmelblau’s wildly ambitious L.A. high school opened to great acclaim and local controversy. Two years later, we ask: how is it actually working?
The Jaqua Center: The College Experience Writ Architectural
A controversial new building on the University of Oregon campus—underwritten by Nike’s deep-pocketed cofounder—wants to turn athletes into student-athletes.
