depA Architects   Portugal   A perimeter composed of large blocks of granite and a gridded wooden roof determine the spaces of this greenhouse located within the famous park of Portugal’s northern capital...

Bofill Taller de Arquitectura   Morocco   Fearing that a foreign power would appropriate the immense phosphate reserves that were appearing in Morocco’s central region, in 1920 the French protectorate set up the office that is now the OCP Group, an industrial giant that is key to the country

Taller de Arquitectura de Bogotá - Daniel Bonilla    Colombia   The Human Sciences building of Universidad Industrial de Santander strategically stands at the main entrance into its central campus in Bucaramanga. With a built area of 14,585 m². …

Christian Schmoelz    Austria   The Allesamt Family Center in Nenzing is a public building that provides two essential services under one roof: child care and nursery, and professional advice and support for parents and families. This comprehensive approach responds to growing dema

AACM   Italy   In Piove di Sacco (Padua), Kinder Rain was thought up to feel like a village, composed of pyramidal volumes connected by open courtyards that engage in direct dialogue with the landscape. The Italian firm AACM – Atelier Architettura Chinelo Morandi d

Studio Gang   United States   The use here of recycled and locally sourced materials, optimal-form factors, and renewable energy systems incites students to contribute to building a more sustainable future. The open-plan ground level features a double-height atrium from which a n

BDP    Netherlands   The new LennaMare school – located in Lemmer, in the Dutch province of Friesland – has a clear, distinctive silhouette that reinterprets the architectural language of traditional black wooden barns. This local reference is expressed through a facade

Dorte Mandrup   Denmark   Located on the outskirts of Herning, what is called Crafts College is not a traditional educational center. Its main purpose is to provide affordable lodging to over seventy young people starting out in the construction occupations, including carpent

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   United States   This student centre has recently been inaugurated at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Designed by Danish firm BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) in collaboration with New York-based Rockwell Group, which was responsible for the interior design, the compl

Bernardo Bader Architekten   Austria   A preschool seeks to create a welcoming ambience that children can relate to, instilling in them, in their inborn curiosity, a spirit of independence through learning and working. Characterized by a concrete floor coated in dark clay-casein that crea

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group BAT (Bilbao Architecture Team)   Spain   A project of the Basque Culinary Center, this building fuses science and gastronomy in spaces designed for experiments, research, technological development, and education in the food sector. Encompassing an area of about 9,000 m², the Gastronomy Open

pk_iNCEPTiON   India   With a built area of 355 square meters, this school designed by the Indian firm pk iNCEPTION, led by the architect Pooja Khairnar, is in Hawali, a rural settlement of about twenty-five farming households, located deep in the Satmala range, some 70 ki

DB Studios   Pakistan   After fifteen years in rented spaces, the non-profit organization now develops its formative and support programs in a new, light-filled multistory facility situated in a dense peri-urban area. Structured by a stairwell that opens up to the atrium, t

Archiplan Studio   Italy   In the small town of San Giacomo delle Segnate, nestled in the agrarian landscape of the Po Valley, stands this preschool which reinterprets local rural architecture through simple volumes and gentle colors. The building is composed of basic forms, w

Grafton Architects Modus Studio   United States   The Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation, which recently opened in Fayetteville (Arkansas), is a facility for timber-construction research and training. Part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design of the Universi

Malte Kloes Architekten   Switzerland   The new Borna Park complex in Rothrist, in the Swiss canton of Aargau, was thought up to integrate the life and work of disabled people with the natural environment. Designed by Zurich-based Malte Kloes Architekten, it has two buildings: a residence

Alberto Campo Baeza   The new library presented by the team led by Alberto Campo Baeza is the most distinctive and emblematic element of the French Lycée extension. The result of a widely publicized international competition held in 2018, the brief’s main goal was to plan

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   United States   Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Southern California, has opened a center for scientific education and research, designed by the Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). Strategically located on the eastern edge of the campus, it is a new gatewa

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   The new library is the most distinctive part of the French Lycée expansion project, the outcome of an international competition held in 2018. The main objective was an orderly, unified complex, as well as economy of means in terms of form, materials

Magén Arquitectos   Spain   The scheme ‘Ágora Verde’ – by Magén Arquitectos – has won the competition for the vocational-training building of a digital campus integrated into the new Aragonese Technology District (DAT), along the Río Ebro university premises in Zaragoza. The pr

Urbanitree   Cameroon   In Soa – near Yaundé, Cameroon’s capital – rises a new school designed by the architects Vicente Guallart and Danié Ibáñez, partners in the firm Urbanitree. An initiative of the Missionary Daughters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, it implements an ed

Vaillo + Irigaray interplay   Poland   Vaillo + Irigaray, in collaboration with interplay, has won the first prize in the competition to build the Health Tech Synergy Hub (HTSH) for the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, with a scheme that stands out for how it blends into the

BAAS Espinet / Ubach Arquitectes   Spain   The result of a 2017 competition, the project for the Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR) aimed to reorganize the campus of Barcelona’s university hospital through the topographic insertion of a new building into the urban fabric, in a way that

Although the version currently in circulation is the one the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted in 1959, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child drew from a text approved by the League of Nations in Geneva almost four decades before, d

A Sydney public school has been crowned the World Building of the Year, beating competition from towering skyscrapers, museums and major transport hubs to claim the title. Darlington public school in Chippendale won the major building design prize at

Seated on chairs conferred on them by their credentials, professors preached while the students, sitting on long benches or standing on the sides of the room when there was no more space for them, listened with attention, took down notes, or succumbe

On the campus of Brown University, the New York studio REX – with Joshua Ramus, a former partner at OMA, at the helm – has completed a versatile performing arts center that addresses the requirements of a renowned full student symphony orchestra and

The expansion of its Teatinos Campus has enabled the University of Málaga to equip itself with cutting-edge facilities and greatly improve its offer of academic programs. One of the beneficiaries of this is the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therap

In education, too, there have been classes. While the great universities born out of medieval enlightenment took up large and sometimes luxurious buildings, primary education practically remained restricted to the domestic scale – to small classrooms

Oliver Wainwright   Andrés Jaque has on the outskirts of Madrid broken ground in school architecture and given tangible form to an innovative pedagogical method.

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Pupils asked for a building without walls that was like a garden and a spaceship. The dazzling result, housed within a living skin for insects and fungi, is one of the most inventive schools ever built. "It looks like a robot made of butter,” was one

Eduardo Prieto   The battle of ‘modernity’ was waged not only in the field of forms and techniques, but also in that of ideals. It has been necessary to acknowledge that modernity was ‘ideological’ for it to be assessed with detachment, and that the modern ideology h

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)

Para hacer prosperar las áreas con menos recursos de la Ciudad de México, el gobierno regional ha puesto en marcha una red de centros educativos para personas analfabetas o que han abandonado los estudios. En el de la colonia Presidentes, una de las

The career of Andrés Jaqué can conceptually be described as being halfway between architectural design and critical activism, and geographically it is divided between Madrid and New York City, where he has been teaching since the year 2013, and direc

Commissioned by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the non-profit organization American Friends of Le Korsa (AFLK), the New York-based architect Toshiko Mori has raised a school for children aged 5 to 10 in the remote Senegalese town of Fass. A

In the village of Rudrapur, located in the Dinajpur Disrtict of northern Bangladesh, the German architect Anna Heringer – in conjunction with Veronika Lang and the non-profit organization Dipshikha – recently completed a therapy center for people wit

Along with museums, opera houses, and national assemblies, a specifically modern type of architecture that developed in the course of the 19th century was the center for teaching and learning. First were the universities, which were updated to serve

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

Directed by Miguel Martínez and Pau Batalla, the firm Emac – an acronym for Mediterranean space for contemporary architecture – carried the day in the ideas competition for a preschool and primary school situated in La Pobla Llarga, a municipality in

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

Observer   Helen Holmes    Formerly known as ArtCenter/South Florida, Oolite Arts is an organization that has worked for decades in order to provide affordable work space for visual artists in Miami, a mission that has become increasingly difficult in a city saturated by block

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

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