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Climate, Culture, and Modernism: The Postcolonial Campus as Architectural Laboratory

Ananya Nayak — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:30:00 +0000

In the decades following independence, some of the most ambitious architectural experiments in the world did not emerge through museums, monuments, or government palaces. They emerged through universities. Across South Asia and Africa, newly formed nations turned campuses into testing grounds for entirely new ways of imagining collective life. These campuses functioned as more than educational institutions. They became territories where states tested how modernity might be organized, for citizens to gather, institutions to function, climate to shape architecture, and imported ideas to transform local realities.

Forming a Distinct Identity: How Brutalism Shaped American Architecture Education

Olivia Poston — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 05:00:00 +0000

By the mid-nineteenth century, American universities began to distinguish architecture from civil engineering and the applied sciences formally. Architecture was emerging as a discipline defined by both technical competence and conceptual inquiry, spatial imagination, and cultural agency. As this disciplinary identity evolved in the postwar decades, its built expression coalesced into the emerging architectural language of Brutalism.

MCHAP Announces Thaden School by EskewDumezRipple, Marlon Blackwell Architects, and Andropogon Associates as Its Fifth Americas Prize Award Winners

Reyyan Dogan — Tue, 06 May 2025 04:30:00 +0000

The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) has just announced the winners of the fifth MCHAP Americas Prize award: Thaden School, designed by EskewDumezRipple, Marlon Blackwell Architects, and Andropogon Associates. Located in Bentonville, Arkansas, on a 30-acre site, the campus explores the relationship between architecture, landscape, and community within the educational context. The announcement was made after a daylong celebration at S.R. Crown Hall on the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) campus. The event featured Masterclass presentations by students from IIT and regional universities, along with a roundtable discussion with the finalists and jury during the MCHAP Symposium.

How Architecture Drives Scientific Discovery: Lab and Research Facility Design Across Scales

Ankitha Gattupalli — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:30:00 +0000

The synergetic relationship between architectural design and scientific discovery tends to be rarely addressed, yet a lucrative proposition. The built environment holds immense potential in supporting research breakthroughs and innovation and the scientific community. The influence extends beyond physical spaces to include both internal dynamics and external engagement through strategic design interventions that connect various caches of impact, from individual researchers to the broader community.

Architecture Inspired by Permaculture: How to Integrate Its Design Principles Across Diverse Contexts

Agustina Iñiguez — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 07:30:00 +0000

The concept of permaculture refers to a design system capable of creating sustainable human environments based on an ethic and a series of ecological, environmental, and resilience design principles. In contact with plants, animals, buildings, and infrastructures such as water, energy, and/or communications, permaculture analyzes the possible relationships between these elements based on their position in the landscape. Its 12 design principles can be applied in multiple architecture projects of varying scales and programs, contributing, for example, to the dissemination of new ways to reduce energy consumption in homes, save water through rainwater harvesting or the recycling of greywater for sanitary systems, gardens, and more, and participate in food production, among other matters.

Are For-Profit Developments Consistent With the Values of a Public University?

Emily B. Marthinsen — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 03:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

Symmetry in Architecture: 15 Contemporary Collective Housing Units in Latin America

Agustina Iñiguez — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 07:30:00 +0000

What is symmetry in architecture? Why is it used to design spaces? What advantages and disadvantages does it present compared to other projection tools such as rotation, translation, and/or repetition? Contemporary architecture evolves day by day by implementing different strategies to create habitable spaces where people can carry out their daily activities, meet their needs, and more. Considering symmetry as a possible means of organization, distribution, and movement in the plane, architecture expresses and communicates largely through graphic means (floor plans, volumes, photographs, etc.) in a relationship that seeks coexistence, in most cases, of spaces, proportions, and scales in harmony.

Designing for Plants: The Architecture of Greenhouses and Their Relationship with the Environment

Agustina Iñiguez — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 07:30:00 +0000

When delving into the envelope of construction and examining how the interior relates to the exterior, the concept of greenhouses emerges as an opportunity to cultivate life indoors, whether dependent on external factors or not. Defined as spaces enclosed by glass or other transparent plastic materials, greenhouses facilitate the growth of vegetables and ornamental plants even during periods of adverse external weather conditions. However, what does designing for plants involve? Climate, species, structural design, and the type of covering are just a few of the considerations to take into account.

SO–IL Designs a Teaching Museum of Art for Williams College in the United States

Maria-Cristina Florian — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 06:30:00 +0000

Brooklyn-based firm SO-IL has revealed the design for a new campus art museum at Williams College in Massachusetts, created to become a primary teaching resource for the institution renowned for its art history program. Since its inauguration in 1926, the Williams College Museum of Art has gathered an expansive collection of over 15,000 works. Through the design of SO-IL, the museum will be able to move into its first freestanding purpose-built home. In May 2024, the museum will present an exhibition on SO-IL’s design.

OMA / Chris van Duijn Wins Bid to Design Hongik University's New Campus in Seoul

Maria-Cristina Florian — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 06:30:00 +0000

OMA / Chris van Duijn won the competition to design a new campus for Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea. The proposal introduces a cluster of low-rise buildings interconnected by a network of public spaces molded on the existing topography of the site. The design aims to reemphasize the university’s connection to the city and its neighboring areas and to introduce greenery and various open spaces creating a seamless connection between roof terraces, outdoor courtyards, and sunken plazas. The winning proposal was chosen from the entries from established international practices, including SANAA, Herzog & de Meuron, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, and David Chipperfield Architects.

HENN Develops Master Plan for City University of Hong Kong

Paula Cano — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 05:30:00 +0000

International architecture office HENN developed a 300,000m² master plan for the City University of Hong Kong in the province of Guangdong. The construction will be split into two phases: the central library is planned for 2023 and the academic amenities, including student residences, are scheduled for completion in 2025. As the City University of Hong Kong's third mainland site, "CityU Dongguan" will connect researchers and industry collaborators across the Greater Bay Area Technology Innovation Corridor and create a multifaceted university district in the Pearl River Delta region. Moreover, the complex will be home to the Faculty of Science, Engineering, Business, and Medicine.

Letter From Berkeley: Campus Planning in an Increasingly Virtual World

Emily B. Marthinsen, John J. Parman, Richard Bender — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 03:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

Exhibition Center of Zhengzhou Linkong Biopharmaceutical Park / WSP ARCHITECTS

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 19:00:00 +0000

Zhengzhou Linkong Biopharmaceutical Park is the largest innovative and entrepreneurship base for R&D and production of life science and biotechnology in Henan Province, China. Its innovation, cutting-edge and unlimited potential for development are all important factors for designers to consider.