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Il Magistero

Giancarlo De Carlo, Urbino, 1976

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Within the picturesque brick envelope of the Magistero, its major spaces are formally carved out as clearly as the cortile of the nearby Ducal Palace

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School of Education built for the University of Urbino constructed of brick and dug into the hilly landscape

The building provides additional educational and public facilities including a library, teaching rooms for seminars, and a congress hall.

The building is entered from the tight pedestrian streets of the town onto the upper level of the building, which is built into the hillside. On the same level is a cluster of lecture theatres which are arranged in semicircular form and lit by a great skylight, sloping down to the lower floors.

Between these bold geometric shapes and the boundaries of the site are a number of foyers and circulation areas which have the feel of public places. Circular stairs and ramps have been included, to remind of the topography of the hill town outside.