This book is about school building and school builders over the last fifteen years of design and construction,and the design issues facing school builders of today.

Educational policies and trends are continually changing,and consequently design briefs for school buildings are also in a constant state of flux. School Builders introduces 29 school projects from across the globe, each of which bears testimony to the many changes affecting school buildings. Through these projects, the book also presents a number of pressing and sensitive issues relevant to architects, school governors and anyone else involved in school design.

Representing the work of an international range of architects, the featured buildings cover a wide range of briefs: from the technology-led classroom to the sustainable 'green' school; from the tight urban site to wide expansive fields; from the small to the large; from children's involvement to the community's involvement; from state to private; and from safety and security to freedom and horizons.

Within this range of issues, new technologies emerge as the main driving force behind the most rapid changes in school design. Technology has allowed schools and learning to change, in terms of both the physical space and the type of activity taking place within it. School buildings must therefore offer more and more flexibility in their design: they need to be able to accommodate potential changes concerning technology, demographics, sustainability policies, urban regeneration, safety and security,and all within (mostly) public budgets -and on top of this,to do so using creative design solutions. The buildings featured here will offer inspiration to anyone seeking to tackle these complex issues of school architecture.

PREFACE

ELEANOR CURTIS

INTRODUCTION

TALKS WITH:

Ray C Bordwell, Principal Partner at Perkins & Will

Steve Clow, Head of Architecture at Hampshire

County Council Architects

Nev Churcher, Architect of Woodlea and Whiteley schools,

Hampshire County Council Architects

ALLFORD HALL MONAGHAN MORRIS

GREAT MOTLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL, Essex, England

ARBEIDSGRUPPEN HUS

STEINERSKOLEN I STAVANGER

(STEINER SCHOOL STAVANGER), Stavanger, Norway

ARCHITECTURE PLB

HAUTE VALLI~E SCHOOL,

Jersey, Channel Islands, England

ARUP ASSOCIATES (LONDON)

DRUK WHITE LOTUS SCHOOL, Ladakh, India

BEHNISCH & PARTNER

MONTESSORI SCHOOL INGOLSTADT,

Hollerstauden, Germany

BEHNISCH & PARTNER

VOCATIONAL SCHOOL,Ohringen, Germany

BUILDING DESIGN PARTNERSHIP

HAMPDEN GURNEY SCHOOL, London, England

DOUGHERTY & DOUGHERTY ARCHITECTS LLP

RIO DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL,

Oxnard, California, US

ELDER AND CANNON ARCHITECTS

ST ALOYSlUS JUNIOR SCHOOL,

Garnethill, Glasgow, Scotland

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL ARCHITECTS

QUEENS INCLOSURE PRIMARY SCHOOL,

Hampshire, England

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL ARCHITECTS

STAKES HILL INFANT SCHOOL, Hampshire, England

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL ARCHITECTS

WHITELEY PRIMARY SCHOOL, Hampshire, England

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL ARCHITECTS

WOODLEA PRIMARY SCHOOL, Hampshire, England

HElM GOLDSTEIN ARCHITECT

OSKAR-MARIA-GRAF-GYM NASlUM (OSKAR-MARIA-GRAF

SECONDARY SCHOOL), Neufahrn, German

ITSUKO HASEGAWA

KAIHO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Himi, Japan

KUMPULAN AKITEK

LYCEE FRANCAIS DE SlNGAPOUR (INTERNATIONAL

FRENCH SCHOOL OF SINGAPORE), Singapore

LORD, AECK & SARGENT

TRINITY SCHOOL, Atlanta, Georgia, US

PATKAU ARCHITECTS

STRAWBERRY VALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL,

British Columbia, Canada

PERKINS &WILL

DESERT VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL,

New Mexico, US

PERKINS &WILL

NORTH FORT MYERS SCHOOL,

North Fort Myers, Florida, US

PERKINS &WILL

PERRY COMMUNITY EDUCATION VILLAGE,

Perry, Ohio, US

PLUS+ BAUPLANUNG

EVANGELISCHE GESAMTSCHULE GELSENKIRCHEN

(EVANGELICAL SCHOOL IN GELSENKIRCHEN),

Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck, Germany

PLUS+ BAUPLANUNG

WALDORF SCHOOL, Chorweiler, Cologne, Germany

Ross BARNEY + JANKOWSKI INC

CESAR CHAVEZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL,

Chicago, Illinois, US

Ross BARNEY + JANKOWSKI INC

LITTLE VILLAGE ACADEMY, Chicago, Illinois, US

SMWM ARCHITECTS

DREW COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL,

San Francisco, California, US

SMWM ARCHITECTS

LICK-WlLMERDING HIGH SCHOOL,

San Francisco, California, US

THOMAS VAN DEN VALENTYN ARCHITEKTUR & S MOHAMMED OREYZI

MUSIKGYMNASlUMS SCHLOB BELVEDERE BEI WEIMAR

(MUSIC HIGH SCHOOL IN WEIMAR), Weimar, Germany

ZVl HECKER

JEWISH PRIMARY SCHOOL BERLIN, Berlin, Germany

PROJECT INFORMATION

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