Established in 1867, the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL) is the main public education entity linked to the Colombian Ministry of Education. The institution has several campuses nationwide and is one of the most renowned in Latin America, with around 50,000 students currently enrolled in more than 450 courses.
Ciudad Universitaria, also known as Ciudad Blanca, is the main campus of the Universidad Nacional, located in Bogota. Its conception came from a pedagogical review prepared by Fritz Karsen (1885- 1951), a German pedagogue, for the then-existing University. Subsequently, following the philosophy day. The campus is considered the first modern developed by Karsen for the “new” University, a university city in Latin America.
novel architectural project was created.
Designed by architect Leopold Rother (1894-1978), winner of The educational complex extends over 1.2 square the competition proposed by the University, who kilometers, where around 54,000 people attend translated this philosophy into a central square as daily, including students, teachers, staff, visitors, the heart of the University City, around which are and the general public, who expect and demand the school buildings, a configuration kept to this connectivity.
