The Center for High Energy Physics provides academic research and teaching space at the Harvard Department of Physics. The space is configured to induce interaction of its teachers and students in the context of teaching, discovery and learning. This is done by interlacing workspaces and views with faculty and graduate student offices along a circular circulation path, at the center of which is a seminar space. This facility is highly successful as a center for theoretical physics and has been used as a model for other comparable facilities.