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Universities encompass various styles, functions, and purposes, including academic buildings, libraries, research centers, student housing, recreational facilities, and administrative offices. Universities are often designed to create an inspiring and functional learning environment for students and faculty while reflecting the institution’s values, culture, and history. Many renowned architects have been commissioned to design university buildings, resulting in some of the most iconic and innovative architectural masterpieces worldwide. Examples include the Salk Institute by Louis Kahn, the Leicester University Engineering Building by James Stirling and James Gowan, and the Yale University Art Gallery by Louis I. Kahn.
To design the Circle campus, the University of Illinois chose the firm Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, led by Architect Walter Netsch, who planned the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado…
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Designed by Khammash Architects and completed in 2014, the Royal Academy for Nature Conservation in Jordan sets in an abandoned quarry that catalyzes an imaginative intervention providing educational programs and…
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The “Centro di Formazione Professionale” by Swiss architects Durisch+Nolli is a single volume, composed of a serial repetition of simple elements. The project is characterised by the use of material and manufacturing…
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The Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT) Workshop, completed in 2008 near Tokyo, is a groundbreaking project where architect Junya Ishigami successfully materialized his vision of blurring spatial boundaries. This innovative…
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