To attract the best and brightest faculty and students, universities today are asking architects for buildings that not only serve their academic goals but also bring prestige to their campuses through innovative design.

A prominent Arkansas designer conceives a study in contrasts for the architecture school where he teaches.

Golkin Hall, the latest addition to the University of Pennsylvania's law school, announces itself with a contradiction.

Snøhetta's first completed U.S. project emerges from the earth like a high-tech outcropping, enlivening Bowling Green University's campus.

Image courtesy Drexel University Plans call for restoring the stone-clad house and constructing a 4,600-square-foot addition. The building will double as an educational space and dorm. Image courtesy Drexel University The dwelling, built in 1872, has sat vacant since the late 1990s.  Situated on a tree-lined street on the Drexel University campus in West Philadelphia, a stone-clad dwelling circa 1872 served as the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity house for three-plus decades. In the late 1990s, however, the university shuttered the residence following an arson incident. It has sat vacant ever since. Now, a student-run organization backed by faculty members is

A six-story, 120,000-square-foot mixed-use building that houses Pratt Institute's digital arts department and the digital arts lab; student services, including the admissions and financial aid offices; the nonprofit housing advocacy group Pratt Center for Community Development; and a natural foods supermarket on the ground floor.

A two-story, 5,900-square-foot visitor service and education center on the grounds of Cornell University's botanical garden.

 A two-story, 16,000-square-foot center for drawing, painting, and photography on the campus of the Oregon College of Art and Craft.