In the Teatinos-Universidad district of the city of Málaga stands the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy, a work of LLPS Arquitectos (Eduardo Pérez Gómez and Miguel Ángel Sánchez). The complex – with a built area of 31,639 square meters – is br
Completed in 1941, the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters was the first school to go up on the University of Zaragoza’s San Francisco campus. Designed by Regino Borobio and José Beltrán, it stretched out longitudinally with a symmetrical layout. Subse
The starting design decision was to separate the spaces for the performing arts – with specific dimensional, acoustic, and formal requirements – from other more generic spaces common to other schools.
From its original location, the University of Limerick has expanded over the years and is now situated on both sides of the River Shannon, the longest and largest in Ireland. The University’s expansion provided the location for the new Medical School
The extension of the Isenberg School of Management building seeks to bring together departments at the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts while creating a new workspace for students where events and lectures can be held. The program al
The new mechanics hall of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne follows the 7.2 x 3.9 geometric scheme that has defined the campus since it was built in the 1970s. The result of an international competition, the project organizes its 19,000 sq
The school is built inside an urban block where the old 18th-century hospital is refurbished and converted into an administration building, and two existing industrial warehouses are renovated to house classrooms and the library. Barely without touch
The complex comprises interconnected spaces for neuroscience and psychology. A solution might have been to break up the complex into pavilions. Instead, the program presents two sections sharing a large entrance foyer, which encourages contact and co
This new university research center rises on a plot of land with crops growing around it, arranged in patches of the kind which are traditional in the Canary Islands. This organization in terraced platforms also inspired the shape of the building. Th
Located in Realejo, on the southeast end of Granada’s historic quarter, the new School of Architecture goes up in an architectural complex that was once a Military Hospital. This large block, which took shape throughout a long period of urban transfo
Containing an auditorium, a theater, conference rooms, lecture halls, music and plastic arts rooms, and a cafeteria, this university building adapts to the irregular geometry of the site through a tiered profile, sharpening as the floor plans narrows
In the same way, at the Toni-Areal project – a new university complex in Zurich that houses the Academy of the Arts and that of Applied Sciences, a library, cultural spaces, restaurants and apartments –, an iconic ramp connects the campus with the ur
The Slovenian architect Matija Bevk and the Serbian Vasa J. Perovic established their studio in Ljubljana in 1997, where they have built the extension of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, work for which they obtained a special mention as emergi
La situación de la parcela entre el conjunto arquitectónico catalogado de las Facultades de Medicina y Farmacia, y la proximidad del Jardín Botánico de la Ciudad Universitaria y una ladera aledaña de pinares son determinantes en la idea que genera la
Aunque objeto de sucesivos agregados, la facultad de Biología del campus del Vegazana manifiesta un claro principio de ordenación. Tres pastillas paralelas y dos transversales se organizan según una retícula, que omite uno de sus tramos para acoger u
The weight the tourist industry carries in the Canaries often works to the detriment of other, less profitable but equally necessary activities. To draw attention to an educational life on the rise, the University of Las Palmas has invited teams of a
In Sanctiago de Compostela, the years of St. James (when the feast has fallen on a Sunday) can be tracked down through the architectural works that the city’s different administrations have carried out to celebrate the ephemeron, and the ‘Burgo de la
The campus of Espinardo has an unfinished look, with the remaining features of a rural environment such as an unaltered topography, faraway views, and positionings unconditioned by neighboring constructions. On a parcel situated between the general c
Mies passed away in Chicago in August 1969. In tribute to the master and going against the tide, Sota published ‘The Grand and Honorable Orphanhood', exposing his personal decalogue of architectural renunciations. A year later he failed the competiti
Taking from the cloister typology frequent in schools, Siza started out by drawing a U-shaped structure and then went on to attach the secondary elements to it. Main entry is through a platform raised over the street and flanked by two open-use volum
The extension of the school was carried out in stages, starting with the remodelling of the original building. Later Álvaro Siza built the so-called Carlos Ramos Pavilion to accommodate classrooms for the initial years of the course. This is a U-shap
The Barcelona practice of Jordi Badia (BAAS), in collaboration with the local firms Grupa 5 Architekci and Maleccy Biuro Projectowe, recently completed the new Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia in the Polish town of Katowic
The Madrid studio of Emilio Tuñón has won the bid to expand the architecture school of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT). Its design divides the program into three blocks: the existing building, containing administrative services and off
The Irish firm of Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, operating since 1978 as Grafton Architects, has been much acclaimed for the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, a half-buried civic box of concrete – completed in the year 2008 – that strikes an i
Faculty in La Coruña and Station in Córdoba Two buildings – one in Galicia and the other in Andalusia – share the National Prize for Architecture, bestowed every two years by Spain’s Council of Architectural Institutes in conjunction with the M
Winners of competitions in 1989, 1990 and 1991, Cranfield, Cambridge and Camus are three educational buildings that share expressive roofs, climate-conscious detailing and a convivial understanding of learning. Gravid with light references and wise i
