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isolated classrooms and floors separated from one another," explains the school's dean, Richard Cosier. "We wanted to make sure that the new building would be more open, to encourage more teamwork and collaboration. We wanted to build a culture and community within our business program." For Cosier, like many of his colleagues, "Our old building was very traditional, with building a community within a facility's design has become a top priority. "Collaborative spaces, such as executive suites and lounges, Construction of the state-of-the-art Jerry S. Rawls Hall at the Purdue University's Krannert School of Management began in fall 2001. The 128,000-square-foot building will be ready for occupancy in the fall 2003 semester. breakout rooms, and places where groups of individuals can work together on projects, have become very important in business school architecture," says Chimacoff. "I think less and less work is being done individually in business schools, and many more projects are based on teamwork. That is affecting business school design." Collaborative areas were at the top of the list of priorities for Jaime Alonso Gómez, director of the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey's Graduate School of BizEd MARCH/APRIL 2002 33