 These developments toward open building are not taking place for their ideological purity but for pragmatic reasons.Open building implementation implies a new approach to architectural education.A number of schools of architecture around the world (TU Delft, Ball State University in the US, The University of Hong Kong, Southeast University in China, National Cheng-kung University in Taiwan, Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo, University of Florence, University of Pretoria, among others) are experimenting with it.