Education
UT Tyler School of Medicine
Kent State University, School of Fashion
Del Mar College Oso Creek Campus
Roots to Success
Wichita State University Barton School of Business
West Virginia University Reynolds Hall, John Chambers College of Business and Economics
The Engine at MIT
UCR Student Success Center
CSULB Parkside North Residence Hall and Housing Administration Building
Western Kentucky University Commons at Helm Library
Blinn College RELLIS Campus Administration Building
Tsinghua University School of Economics & Management
Tarrant County College Northwest Campus
Southwestern College Student Union
Friendship Foundation Campus
Jewish Leadership Academy
WPI Unity Hall
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Heights Branch
Chapter 510 – Swan’s Market
Wake Tech Community College Hendrick Center for Automotive Excellence
Columbia College Chicago Campus Plan
University of Hawaii, West O'ahu Academy for Creative Media
Georgetown Day School
Western Kentucky University Campus Master Plan
Columbia College Chicago Student Center
University of San Diego Learning Commons
Toyohashi City Library
Strategic Services
Our interdisciplinary and integrated team of architects, planners, designers, and strategists partners with clients to develop engagement strategies, educational planning, campus planning, and education design projects. Our expertise includes academic workplace design, space analytics, brand design, and change management.
Campus Planning
We collaborate with clients and communities to develop high-quality environments that respond to the aspirations and needs of users. Our campus planning approach is guided by research and an understanding of what makes an attractive place while responding to site-specific conditions and addressing sustainability.
Programming and Pre-Design
We generate innovative solutions that affect real transformation to support our clients’ visions and long-term strategies. We gather input from stakeholders to articulate a vision, define goals, build consensus, overlay the formative qualities of the site, and measure against budgets.
Architecture
Architecture is always in service to its institution and can elevate experience. Rather than employ a particular style or off-the-shelf solution, we create designs that respond to programs that sharpen, and even recast, the longstanding purpose of a place.
Interior Design
Our interior designers work collaboratively and strategically to deliver innovation, quality, and sustainable performance across various space typologies. We specify presentations and approvals throughout the process to ensure each design satisfies and reflects our clients’ unique missions and visions.
FF&E
As the world’s largest specifier of furniture, we understand that it must serve current and future generations and be adaptable to changing functions. Our specification process is centered around defining the space to select furniture that fits both the project and overall aesthetic.
Brand Design and Environmental Graphics
We integrate graphic design, signage and wayfinding, and architectural placemaking to create spaces with meaning and purpose. Gensler’s Brand Design practice provides specialist designers, strategists, and programmers to create a seamless user experience and unified brand impression.
Sustainability
We integrate sustainable design across our projects and all facets of service offerings to reduce energy and enhance wellness, performance, and quality of life. Teaming with our engineering partners, our holistic approach to sustainability focuses on net-zero, passive strategies, efficient systems, and renewable generation.
Insights Into the Pandemic’s Impact on Student Well-Being
Inclusive Design for the 21st Century Library
Learning on the High Street: A Vision for the Future
A New Tool Helps Organizations Maximize Their Community Impact
Are Educators and Campus Staff Ready for an Unassigned Workplace?
How Urban Design and Educational Spaces Can Combat Child Loneliness
What Gensler’s Education Engagement Index Reveals About the Future of Hybrid Learning
A Football Academy Designed to Empower Youth in Ghana
Three Considerations for Repurposing Stranded Assets for Education
Using Design to Support Case-Based Learning in Medical Education
How Tomorrow’s Workforce Will Shape Future Workplace Design
Fostering Lifelong Learning at Universities in Latin America
Education and the BIPOC Student Experience
With a Focus on Sustainability, School Revamp Provides Hope in a Food Desert
What We’ve Learned in Three Years Studying Higher Education
Building renovations and adaptive reuse on campus have become a key development strategy.
As higher education institutions strive to stay relevant and reduce operating costs, they must focus on the highest and best use of their physical assets. Data-informed strategies can help colleges and universities right-size their infrastructure, lower embodied carbon, and optimize campus space use, such as converting aging classroom buildings into student collaboration space or student housing, rather than new construction.
As hybrid learning becomes an expectation, institutions will find new ways to support different methods.
Hybrid learning is here to stay, and developing the right learning models, technologies, and physical environments will remain a priority. In 2024, we’ll see educational institutions invest in the spaces, technologies, faculty, and staff to support different hybrid approaches — whether activity-based, schedule-based, or HyFlex (where students can choose to attend in-person, online, or both).
The benefits of social connection and well-being demands new types of amenities at schools.
From K–12 through higher education, it is crucial to design places on campus that facilitate community and promote physical, social, and emotional well-being for students. Collaboration spaces and residence halls are vessels for cultivating a sense of belonging. Schools, colleges, and universities are supporting “the whole student” and often providing non-academic support services, from affordable meals and housing to mental health and other wraparound services.