The university is „the site at which the age’s brightest minds should develop“, wrote the philosopher Karl Jaspers in his 1961 essay The Idea of the University.
The Bologna Reform and university tuition have been greatly discussed in recent years. The days of complacency and selfsatisfaction are past. Universities now find themselves in a global rivalry for excellence, esteem and financial means. This means, at the least, honing one’s content profile. And yet one has the feeling that Jasper’s postulate – at least regarding public perception – has been somewhat pushed into the background. The relevance of a university in today’s society is discussed too little.

What would make more sense for a magazine dedicated to architecture than to investigate recent university buildings that offer „the brightest minds“ a setting and influence the same. And which, furthermore, as iconic buildings – such as the EPFL’s Rolex Learning Center designed by SANAA – increasingly fulfill the role of an image factor for the institution at hand.

The education of architects has long left the trade construction site and has been academically professionalised. The study of architecture with its teaching concepts, institutions and diverse pedagogic profiles influences the students and offers the necessary interaction. It also often influences the future architects in interaction with the buildings in which the teaching takes place. The teachers often were and are also the designers of the spatial envelopes. The range stretches from Paul Rudolph at Yale to John Hejduk at Cooper Union to the ETH Master Plan for Science City by Kees Christiaanse.

Thus, the edition is not limited to buildings for teaching, but rather presents selected teaching models from the last decades and the present. It deals with individual concepts (Urban Think Tank) on the one hand and dialogue (AA and Bartlett in London) on the other. Interconnections arise over and over, be they through persons or spatial concepts.
The editors

02 Editorial

Architektur Aktuell
14 LIN: Cité du Design, St-Étienne | Anne Kockelkorn
20 Coop Himmelb(l)au: Highschool for the Visual and Performing Arts #9, Los Angeles | Lilian Pfaff

Universitäre Räume
32 TU Wien – Aufbrüche anno ’68: Das Wirken von Günther Feuerstein | Günther Feuerstein
40 Prototype AA: An Ongoing Experiment | Brett Steele interviewed by Oliver Domeisen
48 The Architecture of Self-Reflection: Paul Rudolph’s Art & Architecture Building at Yale | Emmanuel Petit
54 Das Haus als Weg: Die Architektur der Cooper Union | Carsten Krohn
60 Lateral Design: Towards a more experimental approach to architectural education | Marcos Cruz
66 Dichte und Vielfalt: Science City ETH Zürich | Mathias Remmele
68 Southern Exposures: Towards a Social Responsibility in Architecture and Architectural Education | Urban Think Tank
74 Architekturausbildung als Aktion - Lacaton Vassal: École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Nantes | Kaye Geipel
80 Die Welt ein Kreis, die Welt eine Linie: Das Rolex Learning Center der EPFL von SANAA in Lausanne | Hannes Mayer

Rubriken
86 Interview „Zurückhaltung als Prinzip“: Hubertus Adam im Gespräch mit Roger Diener
92 Baugeschichten: John Hejduks Kreuzberg Turm in Gefahr | Carsten Krohn
94 Junge Architektinnen und Architekten: Allemann Bauer Eigenmann, J. Christoph Bürkle
96 Bücher
100 Neues aus der Industrie
110 Lieferbare Hefte
112 Vorschau und Impressum