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.
Educational Architecture
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.
The East Harlem School, Pride of East 103rd Street
A new middle school in Harlem is the product of its stubborn and visionary founders and the building’s equally stubborn and visionary architect.
Ten Tips For Creating a 21st-Century Classroom Experience
In recent years, IDEO has spent a lot of time and effort thinking about education. The firm’s work with Ormondale Elementary School, in Portola Valley, California, helped pioneer a special “investigative-learning” curriculum that inspires students to be seekers of knowledge.…
8 Leading Architects' Best K-12 Projects
A survey of outstanding K–12 schools underscores the compelling ways that architects and designers respond to the changing nature of education today.
Exporting the Quad: The American Influence on Global Campus Design
Course# Met115 This course is AIA/CES registered for 1LU. The American ideal of the campus for higher education—quads, diags, ovals, tree lined lawns—has stuck in the imaginations of university planning the world over. The growth in the global education market…
Public Color for Public Schools
Michael Kors and his team arrange stencil lettering on their banner. "I need an O!" Kors said to a friend. "It's like having a personal Vanna White." Last night, a lively crowd of architects and designers descended on the Louis…
I ♥ IIT… But I Still Don't Like Rem
A visit to the Koolhaas-designed student center in Chicago places our columnist in a real quandary.
The Gary Comer Youth Center: Chicago's Most Transformative Building?
Gary Comer and John Ronan create a stunning citadel of hope on Chicago’s troubled South Side.
