Academic Building
Design and planning of educational facilities including schools, universities, research centers, and campus buildings.
Academic buildings serve as learning environments that shape how students and researchers work and interact. These projects explore how architecture can support education through spatial organization, material choices, and integration with natural systems.
The community examines diverse institutional typologies from high schools to university science facilities, investigating approaches like biophilic design, energy efficiency, timber construction, and campus-wide transformations that connect multiple functions within single structures.
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View all 62 journalsFEI Architects Rescues Peking University's 1988 Teaching Building from Demolition and Remakes It as a School of Mathemat
In Beijing, a doomed 1980s teaching block on PKU's Yanyuan campus returns as a mathematics school where tiles, stairs and ceilings run on geometry.
LT2A and OPEN Architectes Thread a Brick and Glass High School Through a Wooded Belgian Campus
In Braine-l'Alleud, a 3,000 m² wing for Collège Cardinal Mercier pairs pale brick with a glazed colonnade, deferring to a small chapel and a dense wood.
Juan García Correa, John González and Claudia Rueda Sink a Circular Amphitheater into a Manizales Engineering Building
On the La Nubia campus in Manizales, Colombia, the S1 Building folds labs and offices into a hillside of ramped lawns that double as a campus route.
EGM Architects Complete a 30-Year Campus Transformation with a Biophilic Hospital in Nijmegen
An 11-storey university medical centre draws on salutogenic design and the Bossche School tradition to redefine Dutch healthcare architecture.