Appended to the existing Minoru Yamasaki designed Conservatory of Music complex [1963], the 37,000sf Kohl Building is arranged on 4 levels including a basement. In addition to housing the jazz studies department, it features a world-class recording studio, flexible rehearsal and performance spaces, teaching studios and practice rooms, an archive for the largest private jazz recording collection in America, and a rare collection of jazz photographs of the 1950’s. At the core of this program is a distributed series of informal, un-programmed public spaces. The building is organized, inside and out, to promote social engagement and creative exchange.