Historical heritage

The physical campus of the National University of Colombia at its centers, has a rich architectural infrastructure highlighted by the historic and the modern aspect of their new buildings.

In Bogotá is a historical center known as the campus or the White City, with 17 buildings that have been declared a national monument and are representative of the last 60 years of Colombian architecture. The buildings where today is the Bogotá were projected with a suburban character in 1936 by Fritz Karsen educator and architect Leopoldo Rother, representing a veritable laboratory of national architecture. Before the construction of the campus, the three faculties of the University (Mathematics, Engineering, Medicine and Science, and Law and Political Science), worked in monastic cloisters and other buildings constructed for science and pedagogy, as the Astronomical Observatory, Institute of Science and Medicine and the Faculty of Engineering.

At initial works are plus other buildings, also important in terms of the current architectural trends. This is the case of new buildings of the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Humanities.

In Medellín is a building designed by Pedro Nel Gómez where today the School of Mines. In Manizales is the former headquarters of the Cable Station Air Manizales-Ladybug, now Faculty of Architecture and Palmira in the building of the Faculty of Agronomy also designed by Leopoldo Rother.

In the border sites like Leticia, architect Santiago Moreno includes local and indigenous elements, merits that were featured in the XVI Colombian Architecture Biennale. In buildings of Arauca and San Andrés intervened architects Santiago Moreno, Armando Duque, Álvaro Pedro Neira and Juan Jaramillo.