For Nasrine Seraji designing a school of architecture raises a series of questions and issues, both as an architect and as a teacher: pedagogy as programme and form giver; architecture as the form of pedagogy; circulation as space; school as an urban institution mediating between architects and the public. Working on the school of architecture in Tours gave Seraji the opportunity to negotiate a series of answers and express them as her interpretation of the crossover between education and practice. Nasrine Seraji studied at the AA before founding her own studio in Paris. She has taught at the AA, Columbia and Princeton Universities, and is Professor and Chair of the Architecture Department at Cornell University.