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| 401 Acknowledgments No person works alone on this planet. This book includes not only my ideas and experiences but is closely woven into the larger efforts of professionals who have spent their lives working for the betterment of architecture, education , and mankind, especially children. I am indeed indebted to many people for their support and help in my life work and in particular, this book. I am especially grateful to Katie Enggass for her dedicated editing, organization, and months of collaboration to bring this book to fruition. Katie was incredibly facile at understanding all the intricacies of the emerging model of learning expressed in this book. Sandee Jensen, an environmental designer who worked tirelessly to support all the projects that emanated from the small office of Anne Taylor Associates. George Vlastos, architect, for the many hours we shared across the large drafting table in my Corrales farm studio. He and I taught each other about design thinking for education and from this dialogue wrote integrated curricula that ultimately formed a new discipline merging architecture and education. Our enjoyable and informative dialogue became the basis of this book. George Anselevicius (1923–2008), dean emeritus of the UNM School of Architecture and Planning, for his encouragement and support through the years. If your name or organization appears within these pages as a contributor —whether it be through photography, written contributions, case studies, or illustrations—please know how much I value your generosity and sharing spirit. Thank you, too, to all the administrative assistants, secretaries, and archivists who worked behind the scenes to help me track, sort, and identify images for this book. Special mention goes to artists who gave us many ideas for visually organizing the book: Atsuko Sakai, George Vlastos, Keith Vlastos, and Peter Wrona. Thanks to Kim Jew, photographer. Acknowledgments 402 | I am also indebted to longtime friends and supporters of both the School Zone Institute and the Architecture and Children program, and participants in the many projects generated over the years: to the school administrators open to new ideas, the workshop participants of all ages, to the branches of the Architecture and Children Network in Japan, Seattle, and Anchorage. Specifically, I’d like to thank colleagues Charlene Brown, architect; Fritjof Capra, physical systems theorist and author; George Carver, Steelcase representative; Lucian Cassetta (deceased), architect ; Milton Chen, executive director, George Lucas Educational Foundation; Ed Crittenden, architect; Lori Gee of Herman Miller Furniture; Susan Gooding of Antoine Predock Architect; Robert Gorrell, director of the New Mexico Public School Facilities Authority; Hiroko Hosodo, architect; Takeshi Inaba, architect and educator; Jim Jonassen, principal at NBBJ Architects, Seattle; Manny Juarez, architect; Olga Kimball; Edward E. Kirkbride, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, Recognized Educational Facility Professional; Alice Jean Lewis; Dan Lewis of Business Environments; Myrna Marquez, architect and environmentalist ;AlisonMarshall,artseducator;ErinMacInnesandJuliaBland,forour work at the Louisiana Children’s Museum; Robert McIntosh, technology educator; Dwight Miller of Sandia National Laboratories; Gary Nelson, president of Creative Learning Systems; Joan Norris; Lynne Olson of Antoine Predock Architect; Tina Patel, architect; Ifan Payne, architect and educator; Robert Peters, FAIA, architect; Baji Rankin, educator; Michael J. Resudek of Imagic Digital Imaging and Design; Joe Rice, educator; Roger Schluntz, dean of the UNM School of Architecture and Planning; Julie Stoffler, art educator; and Mark Unverzagt, physician. Thank you to the many forward-thinking architects with whom I have collaborated on a variety of educational design projects, including Steven Bingler, Lucian Cassetta (deceased), Gaylaird Christopher, Ed Crittenden, Van Gilbert, Takeshi Inaba, and Jim Jonassen. I would like to thank my manuscript readers, including George Anselevicius, Eleni Bastea, Kathy Feek, Denise Hexom, Kuppaswamy Iyengar, Catherine Loughlin , and Sharon Wolfe, for their time and insights at different stages during the development of this book. I am grateful to the University of New Mexico for funding projects and research over the years, and for its support of the Institute for Environmental Education in the School of Architecture and Planning. My many colleagues there have been an inspiration, including Andy Pressman, who encouraged me to write this book; UNM Press, Luther Wilson and Kathy Sparkes, book designer extraodinaire; Doug Bell, a technology expert who has kept my computer running; Jerod Bosey, an architect who helped with research and miscellaneous tasks throughout the process ; and Jesse Giordano, my graduate assistant from 2006 to 2008. I am deeply grateful to all my students at UNM. Our ongoing dialogue enlightens us all. To my wonderful family and daughters Meredith, Susan, and Kimberly, thank you for maintaining the...

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