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Henry W. Bloch Executive Hall
for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
An innovative building design challenges traditional
teaching methodology and becomes a model for a campus
By Russell Fortmeyer
Photography by James
Ewing and Mike Sinclair
Ivy-covered walls and traditional lecture theaters were exactly what the The Bloch Executive Hall integrates media walls, Wi-Fi networks,
furniture on wheels to support portable workstations, and flat-screens
faculty at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) did not want
for ad-hoc meetings, as well as a significant variety of work spaces in
for the new Henry W. Bloch Executive Hall for Entrepreneurship and
casual, adaptable furniture arrangements. The 68,000-square-foot
Innovation, the home of the Henry W. Bloch School of Management. Its
leaders recognized the new building needed to adapt to contemporary building has four levels, with classrooms, lecture theaters, small-group
meeting and study spaces, video conference facilities, prototyping
demands for connectivity, flexibility, and sustainability.
Bob Simmons, the UMKC campus architect and a key stakeholder rooms, and offices spread throughout.
in the project, says the building represented an opportunity to change
Flexible spaces filled with shifting light
the business school's image. "The building places students within
"Cross-disciplinary collaboration has become extremely important in
environments that simulate real-world situations for ideation and
business schools," says Buzz Yudell, a partner with Moore Ruble Yudell.
'proof-of-concept' testing," Simmons says, echoing a lot of new-age
"This, in turn, suggests more flexible and informal ways of collaborating."
business philosophy. "All of the schools on campus are now looking
Out of the design process, models emerged such as the
at this building as a model."
Design-Led Innovation Lab on the third floor, which features a variety
That model is a pedagogical shift for UMKC to one that prizes
hands-on, technology-driven learning. The architects for the project- of spaces for discussion and brainstorming that can be temporarily
divided with operable, 10-foot-tall whiteboard walls. These operable
a collaboration between Santa Monica-based Moore Ruble Yudell
walls are used to divide other classrooms, too, giving the school
and Kansas City, Missouri-based BNIM-understood this intuitively.
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Contents
Editorial
Publisher’s Letter
Industry News
Columnist: Good Project Management Techniques for Interiors Practices
Product Focus: Not the Highway
Product Focus: Bloom Where You Are Planted
Product Briefs: Education
Princess Nora bint Abdulrahman University
Pat Bosch Reflects on Designing the World’s Largest University for Women in Saudi Arabia
Odegaard Undergraduate Library
Henry W. Bloch Executive Hall for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
University of Copenhagen KUA2
Rethinking Campus Foodservice Design
Forum Overview: Contract Design Forum Repositions Design
Designers Select: Education Solutions
Ad Index
Sources
An Exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Explores the Work of Dutch Designer Marcel Wanders
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