School of Management in Skolkovo
Moscow, Russia
Architects: David Adjaye
Interior Designer: David Adjaye
Interior Designer: David Adjaye
The focus of the design process was always the Campus intended functionality
Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO is a joint project of Russian and international business representatives, who joined their efforts to create a business new-generation school from scratch. Focusing on practical knowledge, the Moscow School of Management dedicates itself to training leaders, who intend to implement their professional knowledge in the conditions of rapidly developing markets. SKOLKOVO is defined by: leadership and business undertakings, rapidly developing markets focus, innovative approach towards educational methods.
Since 2006 SKOLKOVO conducts short educational Executive Education programmes for top and medium-level managers - open programmes and specialized, integrated modules based on the companies requests. SKOLKOVO launched Executive МВА programme in January 2009, first class of the international Full-time MBA programme - in September 2009.
The buildings that make up the SKOLKOVO Campus were born of a unique architectural vision. The founders of the school were faced with no small task - to create a flexible space that would bear witness to both the school’s innovative and progressive nature, as well as the Russian ideas in which it is rooted - ideas recognized throughout the world. Both of these aspects are an innate part of the work of Kazimir Malevich, the great Russian artist, whose painting, ‘Suprematism,’ served as the inspiration for the architectural design of the SKOLKOVO Campus.
The focus of the design process was always the Campus intended functionality. At SKOLKOVO the architect David Adjaye deliberately avoided the traditional college layout and took a brand-new approach - all of the Campus buildings are accessible internally, without going outdoors. In fact, inside the Campus, one finds oneself in an enclosed city, complete with academic clusters, a congress hall, a cafe, streets, and squares - all inside of what they call the disk. The entire Campus is built on the basis of this disk, and from this disk one can enter any building in the city of SKOLKOVO.
No doubt it was the school’s very philosophy that has contributed to the Camus design as well: to encourage human interaction and communication, harmony, and the balance between business and the human spirit.
Since 2006 SKOLKOVO conducts short educational Executive Education programmes for top and medium-level managers - open programmes and specialized, integrated modules based on the companies requests. SKOLKOVO launched Executive МВА programme in January 2009, first class of the international Full-time MBA programme - in September 2009.
The buildings that make up the SKOLKOVO Campus were born of a unique architectural vision. The founders of the school were faced with no small task - to create a flexible space that would bear witness to both the school’s innovative and progressive nature, as well as the Russian ideas in which it is rooted - ideas recognized throughout the world. Both of these aspects are an innate part of the work of Kazimir Malevich, the great Russian artist, whose painting, ‘Suprematism,’ served as the inspiration for the architectural design of the SKOLKOVO Campus.
The focus of the design process was always the Campus intended functionality. At SKOLKOVO the architect David Adjaye deliberately avoided the traditional college layout and took a brand-new approach - all of the Campus buildings are accessible internally, without going outdoors. In fact, inside the Campus, one finds oneself in an enclosed city, complete with academic clusters, a congress hall, a cafe, streets, and squares - all inside of what they call the disk. The entire Campus is built on the basis of this disk, and from this disk one can enter any building in the city of SKOLKOVO.
No doubt it was the school’s very philosophy that has contributed to the Camus design as well: to encourage human interaction and communication, harmony, and the balance between business and the human spirit.
