The Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Dickinson Law, Lewis Katz Hall
The architecture of the building springs from the idea that studying the law is not a solitary endeavor: study and practice depend on dialogue, discussion and debate, which, in turn, describe human interaction. Richard Olcott, Design Partner The architecture responds directly to the School’s desire to create a new identifiable campus center for student activity […]
The Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Law, Lewis Katz Building
The goal is to facilitate interchange by designing spaces that promote gathering and communication, social and academic. The design acknowledges the library as the theoretical and physical heart of the legal educational experience, the center in which students spend much of their time. Richard Olcott, Design Partner Conceived as a floating volume, the law library […]
Cornell University Comprehensive Campus Master Plan
In recent decades, increasing interdisciplinary collaboration among the 13 colleges on campus has resulted in a change in the distribution and organization of academic units, as well as shifts in precinct boundaries. Our strategy addresses these patterns, likely to continue, and allows for adaptability based on new trends moving forward. Duncan Hazard, Management Partner In […]
Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications III
Newhouse III had to affect the culture of the institution, fundamentally changing and challenging traditional departmental identities, and create an environment where transference of content is celebrated and encouraged. Tomas Rossant, Design Partner The building boldly marks a gateway to campus and repairs a jagged campus edge. It joins two pre-existing buildings to complete the […]
Williams College Paresky Center
[The building] fulfills the ambitions of its many creators, not only us architects, but our thoughtful, creative and demanding clients. They have imbued it with the character that is unique to Williams, made sure we understood what that meant, and helped it take its place at the center of student life. At last the Paresky […]
University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, Vernon and Shirley Hill Pavilion
Due it its pivotal highly visible location, the Hill Pavilion represents not only the School of Veterinary Medicine, but the University at large. Transparent materials and incorporation of outdoor spaces for community use have ensured that the structure serves the needs of both the smaller and larger communities. Todd Schliemann, Design Partner Employing a novel […]
Yale University Art Gallery, Kahn Building Renovation
The restoration is more than an aesthetic improvement. It is also the fulfillment of a responsibility to architectural history. Mark Alden Branch, ’86 Yale Alumni, Executive Editor of Yale Alumni Magazine Acclaimed for its bold geometry, daring use of light and space and its structural and engineering innovations, Louis Kahn’s first significant building houses Yale’s […]
Sarah Lawrence College Monika A. and Charles A. Heimbold Jr. Visual Arts Center
The structure provides a flexible framework for an intensive and creative world, one that can transform to provide for a wide variety of approaches, personalities and teaching methodologies over time. Susan T. Rodriguez, Design Partner The building is integrated into the topography of its hilltop site adjacent the two-story, fieldstone President’s house: on the south […]
Smith College, Brown Fine Arts Center
For the architect of a transformational project, the opportunity to create a new life out of an old one is like discovering an architectural fountain of youth. There is a reassurance in utilizing the past to create a future, particularly when it is appropriate to substitute new imagery for old. Susan T. Rodriguez, Design Partner […]