Linking Architecture and Education: Sustainable Design of Learning Environments

473 Pages·2008·27.26 MB·English

by  Anne Taylor

Linking Architecture And educAtion

Linking Architecture and Education
Sustainable Design for Learning Environments
Anne Taylor
with Katherine Enggass
Foreword by Andrew Pressman
university of new Mexico Press | ALbuquerque
© 2009 by the University of New Mexico Press
All rights reserved. Published 2009
Printed in China by Everbest Printing Company, Ltd.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Taylor, Anne P.
Linking architecture and education : sustainable design
for learning environments / Anne Taylor with
Katherine Enggass.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-8263-3407-7 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. School facilities—Design and construction.
2. School buildings—Design and construction.
3. Sustainable design.
I. Enggass, Katherine. II. Title.
LB3205.T39 2008
727—dc22
2008021837
Book and jacket design and type
composition by Kathleen Sparkes.
This book was designed and typeset using the
Fontfont families Scala and Scala Sans otf.
My design incorporates a Fibonacci relationship of
text size, leading, grid, column size, and page size,
in keeping with the philosophy of relationship,
harmony, and rhythm discussed in the text.
To Marion Parker, my mother,
who cultivated beauty
and filled my childhood home
with beautiful repas,
flowers, aesthetic order,
and love.

Contents
Foreword by Andrew Pressman xiii
Preface: The Knowing Eye xv
A Note on the Book’s Structure: The Nonlinear Approach xix
Part One:
the PhiLosoPhicAL frAMework
behind the knowing eye
Chapter One:
The Need for New Thinking 3
Designer Perspective:
Randall Fielding, Great Schools of the World:
The Best of DesignShare 16
Chapter Two:
The Learning Environment 21
Designer Perspective:
Gilbert Choy, Preparing Children for the Challenges of
Global Citizenship: 3e International Kindergarten 33
Chapter Three:
Philosophy 101 39
Designer Perspective:
Roger Lewis, Philosophy in Architecture 52
Chapter Four:
Philosophy Applied to the Physical Learning Environment 55
Designer Perspective:
Elliot Washor, The Met: Letting the Outside In and the Inside Out 70
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Stewardship Forum One:
Philosophy and Aesthetics for the Learner
Introduction 75
Eeva Reeder, Can’t Learn in Ugly 79
Janet Carpio, A Native American Head Start
School: Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico 80
Richard Fleischman, Innovation in School Design:
The Mosaic of Diversified Space 81
Kumi Tashiro, School and Learning Space Design in Japan 82
Howard Kaplan, The Time Is Now 85
Legorreta + Legorreta, Legorreta + Legorreta on Educational
Facilities: A Personality of One’s Own 87
Part twO:
using An orgAnizing systeM:
PLAnning for educAtionAL environMents
with the knowing eye
Chapter Five:
Using a Curricular Organizing System for
School Facility Planning 91
Designer Perspective:
Jeffery Lackney, A Case Study in Collaborative School
Design: McWillie School, Jackson, Mississippi 111
Chapter Six:
Habitability of Learning Environments 115
Designer Perspective:
Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, The Triad of Programming,
Post-occupancy Evaluation, and Universal Design:
Toward Continuous Quality Improvement (Including
the Seven Principles of Universal Design) 137
Designer Perspective:
The Center for Universal Design, The Principles of
Universal Design 142
Designer Perspective:
Baker Morrow and Elizabeth Calhoon, Kids Outdoors in
the New Century: Notes on Playground Design 145
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Stewardship Forum Two:
Architectural Programming for the Learner
Introduction 151
John Petronis, Facility Programming:
Focused Decision Making 160
Dee Trout, A Learning Model in Practice: Keystone Early
Learning Center, Montgomery, Alabama 162
Karen Marsh, Designing for Special Needs at the Nye Bilingual
Early Childhood Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico 165
Gaylaird Christopher, School Design that Lasts:
Harold G. Fearn Elementary School 168
Amy Yurko, The Middle School at High Desert:
Excerpts from a Design Narrative 170
Eeva Reeder, Spaces Teachers Need to Be Effective 172
Stephen Wheeler, A Pedagogical Framework for Active
Learning: Education and Sustainability 174
Robert Lurker, Joyce Downing, and Diane Wilson:
The Technology Learning Center 176
Part three:
reAding the three-diMensionAL textbook
with the knowing eye
Chapter Seven:
Manifestations for Learning 181
Designer Perspective:
Ron Jacobs, A Visual Explosion of Manifestations (Sketches) 216
Designer Perspective:
Paul Tatter, The Meaning Is the Use: Characteristics of
Environments for Thinking and Learning 220
Chapter Eight:
Connecting Manifestations to Learning through
Curriculum and Post-occupancy Evaluation 225
Designer Perspective:
Terry Dunbar, The Schoolyard as Lesson Plan 242
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