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Nair, Prakash – Harvard Education Press, 2014
The United States has about $2 trillion tied up in aging school facilities. School districts throughout the country spend about $12 billion every year keeping this infrastructure going. Yet almost all of the new money we pour into school facilities reinforces an existing--and obsolete--model of schooling. In "Blueprint for Tomorrow,"…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Student Centered Learning, Educational Facilities Design, School Buildings
Chapman, M. Perry – Greenwood Press, 2006
"American Places" calls for campuses to be designed with attention to traditional virtues of campus coherence, human scale, and place distinction, not only to heighten the quality of the learning experience, but also as working demonstrations of ways in which places everywhere can be transformed into more healthy, humane, civic…
Descriptors: Campuses, Educational Facilities Design, Higher Education, Building Design
Luna, Gene, Ed.; Gahagan, Jimmie, Ed. – National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2008
In 2004, "Learning Reconsidered" urged educators to think more holistically about student learning and development. "Learning Initiatives in the Residential Setting" provides a framework for putting this call into action at large universities and small colleges alike. Chapters trace the history of learning in residence halls, discuss academic and…
Descriptors: Building Design, Physical Environment, Student Personnel Services, Holistic Approach
Penman, Kenneth A. – 1977
This book is primarily designed for a course in planning physical education and athletic facilities and as a supplementary textbook for administration courses. It illustrates the skills necessary for designing and planning facilities, stresses the need for effective communication between planners and users, and covers elementary through college…
Descriptors: Athletic Equipment, Athletics, Building Design, Educational Facilities Design
Fanning/Howey Associates, Inc., Celina, OH. – 1997
To demonstrate the impact facilities can have on learning, some exemplary elementary schools that made the decision to provide a good educational environment are presented. To assess the impact of these facilities, students, teachers, parents, superintendents, and other administrators were interviewed. The book opens with a discussion of whether…
Descriptors: Architecture, Building Design, Classroom Design, Educational Environment
Grimm, James C.; Dunkel, Norbert W. – 1999
This monograph provides ideas and information to those professionals involved in planning and developing student living environments. The information is a compilation of data received from 42 institutions throughout the United States and Canada. The institutions provided information on 25 new construction projects (12 relating to apartment-type…
Descriptors: Building Design, Building Plans, College Housing, Construction Costs
2001
This book represents the first installment in a series based on the Herbert Baumer seminars hosted at the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University. These publications will focus on a single work by a particular architect and on special topics in contemporary architecture. The book opens with an interview with Thom Mayne, principal…
Descriptors: Architects, Building Design, Building Innovation, Building Plans
Moore, Gary T.; Lane, Carol G.; Hill, Ann B.; Cohen, Uriel; McGinty, Tim – 1994
Part of a seven-volume series on children's environments, this monograph is a design guide for policy, planning, programming, design, and evaluation of early childhood facilities. The design guide includes 115 patterns for large, medium, and small child care centers in neighborhood and work-place settings. Many of the patterns are appropriate also…
Descriptors: Building Design, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Design Requirements
Brubaker, C. William – 1998
This book offers and examines a number of suggestions for school architecture. The book consists of a review of 22 school projects from around the United States. The text opens with a brief history of school design in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but the focus throughout the book focuses on several distinct elements: designing schools…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Building Design, Educational Environment, Educational Facilities
Stuebing, Susan; And Others – 1995
This report describes 21 educational buildings where innovative use was made of information technology in the educational process. The study was partially funded by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Programme on Educational Building (PEB). Site visits were conducted during spring and autumn 1993 to the 21 schools in…
Descriptors: Building Design, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Planning
Fanning/Howey Associates, Inc., Celina, OH. – 1995
Described are ways in which schools are including spaces for technologically advanced media centers, auditoriums that can accommodate professional performances, expansive recreation centers, and elaborate and functional common areas and multipurpose rooms. The text opens with a discussion of some of the challenges and opportunities inherent in the…
Descriptors: Architecture, Building Design, Community Schools, Educational Facilities Design
Edwards, Brian – 2000
This book explores how universities relate their built environment to academic discourse, asserting that the character of universities is often a charming dialogue between order and disarray. It contains numerous photographs and building plans for example campuses throughout the world. In part 1, "The Campus," chapters are: (1) "Academic Mission…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Architecture, Building Design, Building Innovation
Ezersky, Eugene M.; Theibert, P. Richard – 1976
This book covers in detail the construction and equipping of athletic facilities. Planning and building for future as well as present needs and the wise, economical use of space are emphasized. Accompanied by informative illustrations, the topics discussed are: (1) historical antecedents and sociological trends in physical education and…
Descriptors: Athletic Equipment, Building Design, Building Plans, Construction Programs
Sanoff, Henry – 1994
The positive impact from changing the environment of a school as a way of improving the quality of education is often overlooked by educators. This book shows how to create more effective schools through a design process that involves teachers, students, parents, administrators, and architects. The design process creates school environments that…
Descriptors: Building Design, Colleges, Day Care Centers, Educational Facilities Design
National Committee for Audio-Visual Aids in Education, London (England). – 1975
The design of new schools should facilitate the use of audiovisual resources by ensuring that the materials used in the construction of the buildings provide adequate sound insulation and acoustical and viewing conditions in all learning spaces. The facilities to be considered are: electrical services; electronic services; light control and…
Descriptors: Acoustical Environment, Audiovisual Aids, Broadcast Reception Equipment, Building Design