2025 William W. Caudill Citation from the Architectural Portfolio: Josiah Quincy Upper School
Key Highlights
- The design emphasizes sustainability and community focus, integrating outdoor gardens, student planters, and mindfulness spaces.
- Learning environments are flexible and light-filled, with specialized spaces like a food tech lab, robotics classroom, and outdoor STEM areas.
Josiah Quincy Upper School in Boston is a showcase for equitable, community-focused, sustainable design. With limited open space for a new school, Josiah Quincy was conceived as a dynamic high-rise facility on a less-than-one-acre site to make the most of its verticality. It introduces occupiable rooftop green space and provides community-oriented spaces including a 435-seat auditorium, black box theater, gymnasium and media center. Learning spaces include light-filled classrooms with flexible layouts, centrally situated project areas, and specialty spaces such as a food tech lab, a robotics classroom, an outdoor STEM teaching space, a mindfulness garden and student planters on the school’s rooftop.
Read more about Josiah Quincy Upper School and view a photo gallery at SchoolDesigns.com.