While the architecture, educational ideas and material culture of nineteenth century school buildings have been properly investigated, we know less about the actual processes involved in designing and building schools. These processes are explored in this chapter, allowing the influence of local decision-makers, school designers, builders and…

The U.S. Department of Energy's Rebuild America EnergySmart Schools program provides school boards, administrators, and design staff with guidance to help make informed decisions about energy and environmental issues important to school systems and communities. "The National Best Practices Manual for Building High Performance Schools" is a part of…

In preparing this bulletin the writer has addressed himself to some of the more important questions with which school boards and architects have to deal when they enter upon the work of planning a school building. It is not a treatise on school hygiene, but a discussion of the requirements of school buildings from the schoolman's point of view…