Knowlton Hall
Knowlton Hall, dedicated in 2004, is a state-of-the-art facility for the School of Architecture. The School’s new home is based on the integration of elements: inside and out, students and faculty, old and new, school and university, art and technology. Each of the three disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning are mixed. The design reflects the school’s mission of excellence in education, innovation in design and planning, and the stewardship of quality environment.
Knowlton Hall marks an important entrance to campus and forms a nucleus of professional schools along with the College of Engineering and Fisher College of Business. The 165,000-square-foot facility houses all classrooms, facilities, and offices for KSA’s three disciplines. Students learn in the six classrooms, four seminar spaces, 350-seat auditorium, outdoor classroom spaces, and 500 studio spaces available to them. The building also features gallery space for exhibitions, central review space for critiques of student work, a materials/fabrication lab, an experimental garden space, a 30,000-volume library, two computer laboratories, a digital image library, and a café.
A Closer Look...
Planning on visiting the building, or just want to see the floorplans? Download this PDF flyer of the building plans (166 Kb).
Are photographs more your cup of tea? Then you'll want to check out the school's digital library, which hosts a collection of photographs that have been taken of the building over the years. Browse the library's Knowlton Hall photo gallery here - currently with more than 220 images.
One specific resource which we are proud to showcase in our building is the school's Classic Furniture Collection. As a cornerstone of the program and a main component of the new building, the collection infuses the School with superlative examples of technical and aesthetic craftsmanship and, along with institutions like the Wexner Center for the Arts, establishes Central Ohio as a center of design. You can see more about the Classic Furniture Collection on this PDF brochure (147 Kb).
Building Credits
Knowlton Hall was designed by Mack Scogin Merril Elam Architects of Atlanta, with Wandel & Schnell of Columbus (now WSA Studio). Landscape Architecture was designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates, New York and Cambridge.