ARCH 484/584: Intermediate Architecture Design Studio

Features an overview of school design and presents key paradigms of school design and in-depth case studies of projects, with applicable lessons for today's architect. Richly illustrated with hundreds of photographs and many line drawings of the schools.

As a new generation of educational environments are designed and built, this design manual helps architects to grasp the underlying educational theories and how they can be realized in built form, so that the building fulfills its role as a 3-dimensional curriculum plan. It presents over 80 international case studies.

The nonprofit L!brary Initiative, created by the Robin Hood Foundation, has been working since 2001 to enhance student literacy and overall academic achievement by collaborating with school districts to design, build, equip, and staff new elementary school libraries. The L!brary Book takes readers behind the scenes of fifty groundbreaking library projects to show how widely varied fields and communities--corporate underwriters, children's book publishers, architects, graphic designers, product manufacturers, library associations, teachers, and students--can join forces to make a difference in the lives of children.

The Language of School design is a seminal work because it defines a new graphic vocabulary that synthesizes learning research with best practice in school planning and design.

This volume showcases 60 of the most outstanding recent innovations worldwide. The chosen projects prove especially that collaboration between educationalists and designers can be uniquely fruitful for the planning and building of kindergartens.