The pursuit of knowledge has always been seen as the key to a better life, whether from an individual or collective perspective, and the social value of learning manifests itself particularly in the environments in which it takes place. In a time of breathless change, concepts of human education that promise sustainability and a corresponding architecture of learning are needed. Based on the typology of the library, the contributors show how to develop an architecture for a comprehensive concept of education, and how this built environment can support the transformation of knowledge into wisdom matured through experience.

Michael Heinrich, born in 1966, is a professor at Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Coburg, Germany, and co-director of the Institute for Human Aesthetics, a joint institute of the Universities of Bamberg and Coburg. After completing his theatre design diploma at Universität Mozarteum Salzburg and designing for numerous opera and drama productions, he obtained his doctorate in psychological aesthetics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge in 2021. His research focuses on scientifically based aesthetic quality criteria for architecture and design. --- Christian Illies (PhD), born in 1963, has been the Chair of Philosophy at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg since 2008. He also serves as co-director of the Institute for Human Aesthetics in Bamberg and Coburg. Before joining Bamberg, he held university positions at TU Eindhoven and TU Delft. His research encompasses ethics, meta-ethics, philosophy of biology, philosophical anthropology, as well as philosophy of politics, culture, and technology, with a particular emphasis on architecture. --- Nicholas Ray, born in 1947, worked as an architect in Cambridge for more than 40 years, mostly engaged in buildings for tertiary education. He also lectured at the University of Cambridge, where he is Reader Emeritus in Architecture and an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge. Since 2014 he has been a visiting professor in architectural theory at the University of Liverpool. His work includes monographs on twentieth-century architects as well as articles and books on the links between architectural practice and philosophical thinking. --- Maximilian Sternberg, born in 1979, is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, where he has been teaching since 2008. After completing his studies in history in King's College London as well as history and philosophy of architecture in Cambridge, he held fellowships at the German Historical Institute in Paris, the British School at Rome and ETH Zürich and is a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. His research interests span modern and medieval architecture. ---