The University of Washington School of Business building
expresses both sophistication and openness in its design. The building is
almost forcing you to think outside of the box. With the different parts of the
building protruding from the center rectangle, this building promotes outside
the box thinking. The use of all the glass gives it an openness that many
schools don’t have. The overall structure resembles a bunch of mismatched Jenga
blocks. This formation of mismatched pieces may seem messy, but the glass makes
the building clean cut. The division of spaces exhibits the focus on education
with collaboration in the building with massive U-shaped lecture halls. This
U-shape promotes collaboration, because it causes the students to be facing
each other. This is a school of business, and the architecture makes notice of
that. It looks like an office building, but with a mismatched structure. This
relates to the curriculum taught because business is collaborative field of
study.
Blue= Classrooms (smaller)
Yellow= Lecture Halls
Red= Leisure/Social Areas
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