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Education
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Designing for Health, Designing with Care
Leaders from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, and NYU Langone Health show how sustainability is foundational to great healthcare architecture.
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David Kohn Designs a Whimsical Quad for New College Oxford
With distinctive undulating roofs, diamond-patterned stone facades, and a series of stone gargoyles, the addition brings a playful approach to the historic campus.
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NBBJ’s Westmark School is Designed for Learning Differences
The firm worked with landscape architects SWA to create an education space dedicated to both physical and emotional well-being.
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Laura Guido-Clark Wants Designers to Stop Being Afraid of Color
METROPOLIS sits down with designer and color expert Laura Guido-Clark to learn more about her nonprofit Project Color Corps and color methodology Love Good Color.
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Payette’s New EXP Building is Designed for Research and Built to Perform
How Northeastern University is fostering exploration through insightful and transparent design.
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Projects
Lendager Completes the World’s First Ecolabeled Kindergarten
Located in Copenhagen, The Swan was constructed out of upcycled materials reused from a former school on the same site.
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At Wellesley, a Science Center is Reimagined as a Learning Village
SOM overhauls the university’s science complex, crafting a lively place to learn out of an unloved 1970s hall.
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Programs
These Workplace and Education Projects Benefit People and Planet
The winners of Metropolis’s 2022 Planet Positive Awards in the workplace and education categories demonstrate how adaptive reuse and high-performance design can reduce carbon while improving occupant experienc
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Viewpoints
Dori Tunstall Wants to Show You How to Decolonize Design
Her new book, Decolonizing Design is a handbook for social-justice oriented designers of all stripes.
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Projects
ASU’s Thunderbird School of Global Management Welcomes All to Phoenix
Expected to achieve LEED Gold, this dynamic building by Moore Ruble Yudell and Jones Studio sets a new standard for education spaces in the 21st century.
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Building a New Model for the Campus Library
The University of Arizona’s Student Success District offers a holistic approach to on-campus resources for a Gen-Z student body.
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Office for Political Innovation’s Reggio School Treats Structure and System as Pedagogy
The six-story school on the outskirts of Madrid blends sustainable design with the principles of the Reggio Emilia Approach.
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Viewpoints
An HBCU’s Historic Preservation Program Starts with Its Own Campus
Uncovering history from Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement, students at Tuskegee University take a hands-on role in preserving history on campus and beyond.
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Viewpoints
Surviving and Thriving
With a focus on learning, the March/April issue of Metropolis celebrates the Future100 and sheds a light on how design is reshaping the spaces where education takes place.
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Profiles
Mariam Kamara Could Profoundly Change Design Pedagogy Everywhere
The Niger-based architect Mariam Kamara's rapidly growing practice informs a series of lectures she has delivered recently at MIT, Columbia University GSAPP, the African Futures Institute in Ghana, and Harvard GSD.
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Viewpoints
Design That Reshapes Learning
Here's our guide to the projects and designers shaping the future of education.
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Projects
Canyon View High School Aims to Change Education by Reshaping Space
DLR Group’s endlessly flexible Canyon High School in Arizona moves far beyond typical learning models, embracing multipurpose space and indoor-outdoor design.
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A Children’s Center at Stanford University Provides an Alternative to Traditional Preschool
Dorman Associates eschews garish colors and cartoon characters in the design of a parent cooperative preschool at Stanford University.
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Seattle’s SAAS Middle School Connects Students and Their Surroundings
LMN Architects worked with SAAS’s educators and middle schoolers to create a sustainable and inclusive educational facility.
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Adaptable Design Meets STEM Education at the Ransom Everglades School
The Perkins&Will-designed school uses Covid-19 adaption and STEM education to chart a new course in K–12 education design.