1. ArchDaily
  2. Higher Education

Higher Education: The Latest Architecture and News

Designing for Community: Ayers Saint Gross on Inclusive Planning and Shared Ownership

Architecture and planning centers on human experience and bringing people together. Few firms have structured their office around these ideas like Ayers Saint Gross. Founded in 1912, the firm has over a century of experience, including a majority of their work in support of colleges, universities, and cultural facilities. Today, the 185-person firm has offices around the country, including in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Tempe, AZ.

Designing for Community: Ayers Saint Gross on Inclusive Planning and Shared Ownership - Image 1 of 4Designing for Community: Ayers Saint Gross on Inclusive Planning and Shared Ownership - Image 2 of 4Designing for Community: Ayers Saint Gross on Inclusive Planning and Shared Ownership - Image 3 of 4Designing for Community: Ayers Saint Gross on Inclusive Planning and Shared Ownership - Image 4 of 4Designing for Community: Ayers Saint Gross on Inclusive Planning and Shared Ownership - More Images+ 17

Please Step Inside: Payette's Leon Drachman on Occupying the Center

Payette is a studio reimagining what it means to practice today. While primarily an architecture firm, the firm is rooted in an interdisciplinary approach encompassing landscape architecture, interior design, building science, space strategies, design visualization, fabrication, computation and research. For Principal Leon W. Drachman, Payette is an office that moves across a broad range of scales to reimagine design, from a campus master plan to facade details.

Please Step Inside: Payette's Leon Drachman on Occupying the Center - Image 1 of 4Please Step Inside: Payette's Leon Drachman on Occupying the Center - Image 2 of 4Please Step Inside: Payette's Leon Drachman on Occupying the Center - Image 3 of 4Please Step Inside: Payette's Leon Drachman on Occupying the Center - Image 4 of 4Please Step Inside: Payette's Leon Drachman on Occupying the Center - More Images+ 12

Letter From Berkeley: Campus Planning in an Increasingly Virtual World

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

In March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic shifted our university—the University of California, Berkeley—totally online, along with the whole of education from childcare up across the country and most of the planet. In the wake of this forced and unprecedented experiment, debates about what it means remain ongoing. Will the episodic dream of a placeless university, or at minimum a hybrid place/placeless one, come true? Millennia of experience argue for giving higher education a local, physical anchor. And most universities and colleges have this anchor as their starting place, even as they consider what their ongoing experience with virtual teaching, research, and administration means.

Grafton Architects Wins Competition to Design the Anthony Timberlands Center at the University of Arkansas

Grafton Architects was selected as the winning firm to design the Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation at the University of Arkansas. In collaboration with Modus Studio for the planned campus design research center, the design on the project is scheduled to begin this summer.

University of Arkansas to Construct America’s First Large-Scale, Mass Timber Higher Ed Residence Hall and Living Learning Project

University of Arkansas students are abuzz about the latest addition their university: Stadium Drive Residence Halls. Currently, under construction, the new 202,027 square foot residence halls are the nation’s first large-scale, mass timber higher ed residence hall project and living learning setting. The design collaborative behind the project is led by Boston-based Leers Weinzapfel Associates, Modus Studio in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Mackey Mitchell Architects in St. Louis, and Philadelphia landscape and urban design firm, OLIN.

University of Arkansas to Construct America’s First Large-Scale, Mass Timber Higher Ed Residence Hall and Living Learning Project - SustainabilityUniversity of Arkansas to Construct America’s First Large-Scale, Mass Timber Higher Ed Residence Hall and Living Learning Project - SustainabilityUniversity of Arkansas to Construct America’s First Large-Scale, Mass Timber Higher Ed Residence Hall and Living Learning Project - SustainabilityUniversity of Arkansas to Construct America’s First Large-Scale, Mass Timber Higher Ed Residence Hall and Living Learning Project - SustainabilityUniversity of Arkansas to Construct America’s First Large-Scale, Mass Timber Higher Ed Residence Hall and Living Learning Project - More Images+ 4

Steven Holl to Design a Program and Masterplan Study for Williams College

Steven Holl Architects (SHA) has been commissioned by Williams College to complete a program and masterplan study for the Williams College Department of Art and Museum of Art (WCMA). "The Master Plan aims to evaluate programming and space needs toward the determination of a program to catalyze the engagement of students, faculty and visitors with the visual arts," says SHA.

After talking with nearly 30 distinct groups of students, faculty and museum staff, SHA defined five main goals in which the study is based on:

O'Donnell + Tuomey's Central European University In Budapest Breaks Ground

Work has begun on O'Donnell + Tuomey's first project in Hungary. The new collection of buildings and restoration projects for the Central European University in Budapest sits within existing courtyards in a dense area of the city. Bringing a total of 35,000m² of new space to the inner-city campus, the project consists of a new library spread across five floors, an auditorium, multiple public spaces, teaching and learning facilities, study rooms, and a café.

O'Donnell + Tuomey's Central European University In Budapest Breaks Ground - Image 1 of 4O'Donnell + Tuomey's Central European University In Budapest Breaks Ground - Image 2 of 4O'Donnell + Tuomey's Central European University In Budapest Breaks Ground - Image 3 of 4O'Donnell + Tuomey's Central European University In Budapest Breaks Ground - Image 4 of 4O'Donnell + Tuomey's Central European University In Budapest Breaks Ground - More Images+ 7

Finalist Proposal for First Public University in South Africa Since Apartheid

TC Design Architects have been announced as one of the four winners in a country-wide architectural competition to design the University of Mpumalanga in Nelspruit, the first public university in South Africa since the end of Apartheid. Of 147 architectural practices, the Department of Higher Education and Training has narrowed the pool of entries down to TC Design, Conco Bryan Architects, Cohen and Garson, and Gapp Architects & Urban Designers.

More on TC Design's proposal after the break…