The new Faculty of Science, the David de Wied Building, designed by Architectuurstudio HH renders in architectural terms a tendency today among universities to blur the borders between scientific disciplines. Formerly, faculties were clearly defined discrete entities whereas now they are forging increasingly firm alliances. Traditional faculty buildings with so many separate rooms off long corridors have had their day. The need for the literal encounter between education and research is gaining ground and this has consequences for the way university buildings are organized spatially. Here in the Faculty of Science the emphasis is on communal space, flexibility and versatility.

The new Faculty of Science, the David de Wied Building, designed by Architectuurstudio HH renders in architectural terms a tendency today among universities to blur the borders between scientific disciplines. Formerly, faculties were clearly defined discrete entities whereas now they are forging increasingly firm alliances. Traditional faculty buildings with so many separate rooms off long corridors have had their day. The need for the literal encounter between education and research is gaining ground and this has consequences for the way university buildings are organized spatially. Here in the Faculty of Science the emphasis is on communal space, flexibility and versatility.

In this book, architecture critics Maarten Kloos and Marlies Buurman interview the architects Herman Hertzberger and Laurens Jan ten Kate on their design principles and conceptions. Urban planner Art Zaaijer contributes an essay on the history of the Uithof campus of Utrecht University.