Architecture overview: education

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s Northwest Science Building at Harvard University

By Clare Dowdy and Carole Dixon

If we were going to prioritise the world's new seats of learning by aesthetics alone, centres for performing arts would be high on our list. From glitzy Los Angeles to downtown Dallas, these are the institutions that are getting the all-singing, all-dancing buildings.

To accompany our overview of new educational architecture in this month's issue of Wallpaper* (W*115), here on wallpaper.com we've put together a gallery of new builds with more information about each.