Education

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing the news that Thomas Heatherwick’s Humanise campaign is developing a master’s degree at Loughborough University. The degree aims to challenge conventional architecture education and to foster a generation of architects who will “inspire joyful architecture,” in line with the goals of the movement. “Heatherwick’s naysayers are missing

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Local architecture studio DF Arquitectos has wrapped an expansive clubhouse for a football team in volcanic stone in the shadow of a rocky cliff in Mexico City. The Casa Club Pumas opened in 2023 for the Pumas First Division team at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Owned by the university, the team provides exercise

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Danish architecture studio BIG, alongside faculty at the University of Kansas, has unveiled its design for the mass-timber Makers’ KUbe in Kansas, USA. The structure will serve as an educational building for the University of Kansas (KU) School of Architecture & Design in Lawrence, Kansas. BIG’s design was chosen as part of an open call,

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In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Heatherwick Studio’s design for its first building in South America, which was informed by indigenous weaving practices. Renderings of the seven-storey building planned for Bogotá in Colombia show a facade made of a series of colourful, undulating columns. Several readers were shocked by the cultural reference points

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