2025
Back to School!
We are thrilled to celebrate the active use of the recently transformed teaching labs, classrooms, and public spaces at the Harvard Science Center.
“This entire project was transformative in ways I never imagined… Glass produced an easy way to see your colleagues… pick their brain on some new idea… or even spontaneously leave as a big group to go get ice cream. The students are always here… on weekends, during the day, and late at night. This space is always in use… It really does feel like we are in a different building and I have been working in the Science Center for 35 years!” (Gregory Tucci, Senior Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology)”
As a continuation to Leers Weinzapfel Associates’ interventions at Harvard Science Center over a period of 20 years, this project has two distinct goals: 1) to create an inviting, comfortable, and engaging entry and public experience of the building and 2) to reflect current pedagogy in flexible lab design and student life, emphasizing the social nature of learning with diverse individual and group spaces outside of classrooms and labs. The 44,600 SF renovation peels away the original solid walls and celebrates science on display with newly configurated labs, offices, and classrooms. It transforms the original corridors of the modern landmark building designed by Josep Luis Sert in 1973 from passageways to welcoming places with new lounges, study nodes, and touch-down meeting areas.
