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much of the Times's criticism seems predicated on the assumption that, if architecture is a vocational trade, similar to plumbing, then it cannot simultaneously be an expressive art, akin to film, painting, or literature. But, of course, it is both. In fact, the controversy more or less instantly disappears: architecture is the imaginative production of future worlds even as it is the act of building houses for the urban poor or the obtaining of technical skills necessary for rationally subdividing office floorplates.
WSJ's Architecture Critic Ada Louise Huxtable on the Documentary Film Koolhaas Houselife - WSJ.com
He quickly redefines the subject as the collision of two systems—"the platonic conception of cleaning and the platonic idea of architecture"—which I take to be the consideration of each on an elevated abstract plane of theoretical existence. Anyone who has ever done any cleaning knows that is not where it lives.
Teaching Craft in a Designed World | Blog | design mind
t’s important to remember that craft, by definition, is fundamentally a dedicated mastery of a chosen subject matter, not necessarily just the deep understanding of a specific material or tool.
Human Movement Influences How You Perceive Buildings : Sensing Architecture by Maria Lorena Lehman
Architecture should become a type of narrative, where certain systems overlap or flow to lead occupants on experiential journeys.
NCEF Resource List: History of School Design
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Schools of the Future.
Walden, Rotraut, ed.
(Hogrefe and Huber, Cambride, MA , 2009)
Provides a brief overview of the historical development of school buildings in different countries, followed by contributions from authors discussing how school buildings can work together with users' own creative responses and result in educational environments that are "alive." The give-and- take relationship between architecture and its users (students, teachers, parents, and the community at large) is emphasized from the point of view of architectural psychology and emerging considerations such as information technology. The "schools for the future" vision is to create spaces that people are pleased to return to, time and again, and that allow options for future modification in line with changing user requirements. Also proposed are criteria for the assessment of schools derived from a dual approach. The first is the call for a common language to be used by designers and educators, exemplified by a number of patterns that have been found to be salient in school design. Their common underlying premise is that learning environments should be learner-centered, appropriate to age and developmental stage, safe, comfortable, accessible, flexible, and equitable, in addition to being cost effective. The second approach presents instruments for the systematic assessment of school buildings according to facet theory, a tool that helps to structure the large number of possible influences and subjective indicators such as learning performance, expressions of well-being, and social behavior. 264p.
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History of Educational Architecture
http://www.coe.uga.edu/sdpl/historyofedarchitecture/historyofedarchitecture.htm
Lackney, Jeffery
(School Design and Planning Laboratory, University of Georgia, 2005)
This summarizes the history of the American schoolhouse from colonial times through the time of the one-room country school building. This is part of chapter one in the 2005 textbook "Educational Facilities Planning: Leadership, Architecture, and Management" by C. Kenneth Tanner and Jeff Lackney. The chapter is titled "Educational Architecture: History and Principles of Design." - 8 more annotations...
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