ABSTRACT
The new architecture school at Ohio State shows one solution to that dilemma. Occupying a long narrow site, the 2005 Mack Scogin & Merrill Elam designed building has a curving perimeter wall and central ramp, recalling Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center, that distributes people to a staggered series of studio floors, as in Gund Hall. Below the studios are offices, classrooms, and public spaces and at the top of the building, a library. Alvaro Siza's school of architecture at the Universidade do Porto stands as one of the clearest recent examples of the building-as-compound. The idea of a school becoming a city or campus unto itself leads to schools that treat the larger campuses in which they sit as their urban context. At places such as the University of Texas, Cornell, and Columbia, the schools occupy several buildings, many of them historic, at the centers of their campuses, integrating architectural education into the larger university.
