Higher education architecture
Thriving campuses, thriving communities
The modern campus is a place where only one thing is constant: change. While your institution is always in motion, JLG helps you continuously adapt to opportunities to engage students, faculty, alumni, and administration. With fluctuations in costs, enrollment, academic, and athletic programs, flexibility has never been more valuable. JLG’s Higher Education studio maps the human journey, focusing on intuitive campus design that respects and anticipates capital, respects the environment, and supports lifelong learning and hands-on, career-ready graduates of all backgrounds and walks of life.
JLG’s higher education studio is nationally recognized as a Top 75 Higher Education and Top 50 Student Housing Architecture Giant by Building Design+Construction As a Just Organization with the International Living Future Institute and with team members in the Association for Learning Environments and Society for College and University Planning, JLG is committed to equity, sustainability, and innovative educational facility design.
“My passion is design excellence on all aspects of a project, and that starts with client advocacy. We listen first, then commit ourselves to leading our clients through the hard conversations that every project encounters, always measuring progress against early project guiding-principles; building teams and managing stakeholders is arguably my biggest reward. We’re going to need major student wellness and regenerative, designfocused projects to help protect our learning institutions from the threat of a rapidly changing environmental and student health landscape.”
Christopher Kleingartner, Principal Studio Leader
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Higher education portfolio
Specialties
JLG’s higher education studio offers expertise across a wide range of specialties, including academics, athletics, planning and infrastructure, science, and student life. Our team designs innovative academic spaces that foster learning and collaboration, state-of-the-art athletic facilities that support student wellness and performance, and robust campus planning and infrastructure solutions that ensure long-term growth and sustainability. We also create advanced science and agriculture environments for research and discovery, as well as vibrant student life spaces that encourage engagement, connection, and a sense of belonging on campus.
Services
- Collaborative design
- Master planning
- Facility studies and assessments
- Interior design and FF&E
- Cost estimating
- Bidding and construction administration
- Community engagement
- Visualization
- Sustainability facilitation
- Branding and fundraising
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