Pedagogical PolychromySam Jacob Studio delivers studio space for Kent School of Architecture that references architectural historyByEllen Peirson January 9, 2025International (Timothy Soar)SHAREThe medieval city of Canterbury is steeped in history, at the end of ancient pilgrimage routes in the southeast of the U.K. The spires of Canterbury Cathedral tower over the tightly wound streets of the city center, but two miles northeast of the cathedral is the University of Kent. Designed by William Holford in a pared-back Brutalist style, the Kent School of Architecture is now the center of a campus that has sprawled over the years. Holfords Marlowe Building was originally home to the universitys physics department. But the building has recently reanimated the campus with a gradient of colors popping through the windows of the ground-floor studios. Home to the School of Architecture since 2005, these new colors were part of a renovation bySam Jacob Studioand the result of an open invitation to refit the architecture studio interiors. The simple off-the-shelf blinds strike through the facade of the 1965 William Holford building using Le Corbusiers 1959 Architectural Polychromy paint systema selection of 63 colors that the architect saw as inherently architectural and that he curated to be used together. The palette of the brightly colored blinds includes reds, oranges, and yellows on the west facade and then blends into yellows and greens on the south and hues of blue on the east. Its to do with where the sun is in the afternoon, explained Sam Jacob, director of his eponymous London-based practice. There is a hot side and a cool side.Read more about the school on aninteriormag.com. United Kingdom