About the Book
An exhaustive and invaluable source for the practising architect who is looking for an informative and inspirational tool for the design of school buildings. Architects designing school buildings within an ever-changing approach to education must handle with sensitivity the balance between functional spaces - those for growth and play and those for disciplined learning and orderly behaviour. This book presents a series of contemporary case studies of primary and elementary through to high schools. It reflects educational philosophies and needs, as well as cultural and climatic considerations across the world. Key Features: An invaluable source of inspiration which brings successful solutions to the dilemmas faced by influential architects around the globe.
Includes examples from Richard Meier, Miralles, Zvi Hecker, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano Showcases a comprehensive international selection of styles of school buildings Contains plans, illustrations, drawings and many full colour photographs which make this a practical and visual reference for practising architects Other titles available in the Wiley-Academy 'Builders' series: [Theatre Builders] ISBN: 1-854-90450-7 [Library Builders] ISBN: 0-471-97735-7 [Church Builders] ISBN: 0-471-97755-1 [Monument Builders] ISBN: 0-471-98368-3 [Airport Builders] ISBN: 0-471-98445-0 [Bank Builders] ISBN: 0-471-85359-3 [Cinema Builders] ISBN: 0-471-49138-1 [University Builders] ISBN: 0-471-98834-0 [Bridge Builders] ISBN: 0-471-49786-X [Civic Builders] ISBN: 0-471-49876-9 Future titles include: Theme Park Builders by Loraine Dearstyne Fowlow Hospital Builders by Tony Monk Museum Builders II by Laura Hourston Winery Builders by Loraine Dearstyne Fowlow Office Builders by Katherine MacInnes Cathedral Builders by Bianca Lepori
Table of Contents:
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 Notley Primary School, Essex, England.ARBEIDSGRUPPEN HUS Steinerskolen I Stavanger (Steiner School Stavanger), Stavanger, Norway.ARCHITECTURE PLB Haute Vallee 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 Aloysius Junior School, Garnethill, Glasgow, Scotland.HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL AR CHITECTS 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.HEIN GOLDSTEIN ARCHITECT Oskar-Maria-Graf-Gymnasium (Oskar-Maria-Graf Secondary School), Neufahrn, Germany.ITSUKO HASEGAWA Kaiho Elementary School, Himi, Japan.KUMPULAN AKITEK Lycee Francais De Singapour (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-Wilmerding High School, San Francisco, California, US.THOMAS VAN DEN VALENTYN ARCHITEKTUR & S MOHAMMED OREYZI Musikgymnasiums Schlos Belvedere Bei Weimar (Music High School In Weimar), Weimar, Germany.ZVI HECKER Jewish Primary School Berlin, Berlin, Germany.Project Information.Bibliography.
About the Author :
ELEANOR CURTIS has worked as a writer and photographer for both news and features with UK and international broadsheets and international journals for the last eight years. She has worked from the Middle East, Italy, Angola and London. She has had two solo photographic exhibitions on her work in Angola. School Builders is her second book for John Wiley & Sons.
Review :
"...the latest in the successful 'Builders' Series by Wiley-Academy...introduces a number of pressing and sensitive issues..." (Architectural Design, January 2003) "...an interesting social comment at a particular time..."(Architectural Review, June 2003) "...introduces 29 school projects from across the globe, each of which bears testimony to the many changes affecting school buildings..." (School Building, No.1 Dec 04/ Jan 05)
