Linking Architecture and Education: Sustainable Design of Learning Environments

Contents

| vii 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 viii | 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 | ix 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 x | Stewardship Forum Three: Community and the Learner Introduction: School as Community, Community as School 247 Steven Bingler, Common Ground: Schools as Centers of Community 256 Atsuko Sakai, Key Exercises during the School Design Process: Bridging Students to Educators to Architects 259 Sherry Eagle, Designing Learning Environments: A Community Agenda 261 Gaylaird Christopher, Architecture for Education 264 Dale Lang, High School Reform: Opportunities for Improving Academic Outcomes through Small Learning Communities 266 Henry Sanoff, Methods of Community Participation 271 Jeffery Lackney, Involving Students in the Design of a Neighborhood Center within an Existing Large High School 273 Part Four: Seeing the Future of the Learning Environment with the Knowing Eye Chapter Nine: Beyond the Existing Classroom 279 Designer Perspective: Bruce Jilk, Contingency and Place Making for Learning 314 Designer Perspective: Bruce Jilk, Evolution of a Design for Change 319 Chapter Ten: Learning Landscapes 323 Designer Perspective: Janet Hawkes, Agriculture in the Classroom 348 | xi Stewardship Forum Four: Ecologically Responsive Design and the Global Learner Introduction 355 Kuppaswamy Iyengar, Toward a True Ecohistoric Sense of Place 366 Sim Van der Ryn, Five Broad Principles of Ecological Design 368 Shannon Horst, The School District Farm and Areas of Management Concern 369 Robert Becker, Sixteen Building Blocks for HighPerformance School Buildings 373 Stephen Dent, Daylighting and the Environmentally Responsive School 377 René Dierkx, Project Summary: Sierra Leone, Africa 381 John Crittenden and Stuart Smith, Making the Most of Site: Remodeling (and Rethinking) a Small Rural School 384 Thomas Vliet, Laguna Family Center: Pueblo...