Changing the Architecture of Educating

Abstract

School design occurs within a complicated matrix of divergent aspirations of the stakeholder community, changing ideas on education pedagogy and uncertainty on the most effective environments to facilitate learning. There are many contributors in the school design processes, each with their own objectives, creating a challenging climate for the architects to design within. Through research, exemplar case study analysis and reflection on school architecture projects that I have completed over the last ten years, I have identified three key relationships in the school design processes between the School Community, Architect and Pedagogy. The roles, interactions and participation of these three..