The cycle of giving and receiving education is the substance of our schools. Students, teachers and administrators instruct the making of architecture, with the architect as active listener. Architecture in turn instructs teachers and students in the nature of building. For us, the same cycle of giving and receiving education is the path to a productive architecture of education.
The instruction we, as architects, receive assumes many forms. Knowledge of type connects the past. Research transforms type and generates the future. Where an earlier building exists, patterns emerge from observation of past form and change. Need can be read from prior organization. Sequential alterations record changing need. Repetitive use can be witnessed in wear and patina. Wear and patina simultaneously reveal success and failure.
Dialogue with teachers, students and administrators instructs us about present desire. Development of design options initiate an open path to answers. Commentary and debate provide the path to refinement. Further dialogue speculates upon change and futures yet to come. Fit of building to student and teacher is the negotiation between a known present and a speculative future.
We know education as educators. We know education as architects and planners on more than forty campuses. We understand committee decision making structures and work well with groups, providing accurate and timely information. We present clear, viable options at each stage of the planning, design and construction process. We know every building type and continue to forge cutting edge propositions about classrooms, laboratories, residence halls, campus centers, athletic facilities, libraries and offices.
We understand each institution as a unique entity with its own physical identity that is inseparable from its institutional character. We seek out that identity and extend it through the planning and design process. We believe it is our understanding of institutions’ needs and our ability to translate those needs into a unique approach that has inspired the repeat relationships that we enjoy with many of our clients.
Select Education Clients
Connecticut College, New London, CT
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Duke University, Durham, NC
Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Rice University, Houston, TX
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
University of North Carolina at Chartlotte, Charlotte, NC
Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Brooklyn Poly Prep Country Day School, Brooklyn, NY
Durham Academy, Durham, NC
Ethel Walker School, Simsbury, CT
Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC and Bethesda, MD
The Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, PA
Woodberry Forest School, Woodberry Forest, VA
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