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How to make a basic school design pedagogically interesting? Learning from a case in Ecuador.

A guest post by Beatrice Balfour and Alejandra Manena Vilanova telling their story of co-designing a school near Cuenca, Ecuador.

Ecuador, Reggio Emilia, School, school design, Unidad Educativa - UNAE
Photo of Jeremy Till, Architect

Interview with Jeremy Till on Schools, Contingency, Flexibility and Competitions

Interview with the architect, educator and writer Jeremy Till on a range of issues involving architecture and school design.

competitions, contingency, flexibility, Jeremy Till, school design

What High Schools Look Like and Why

After 1968, James Ackerman, Giancarlo De Carlo and others questioned school design: why? why like this? This post revisits their questions.

educational design, educational purpose, Giancarlo De Carlo, high school architecture, James S. Ackerman, school design
Detail of Herman Hertzberger's 2010 Scuola Petrocelli, La Romanina, Rome.

Italy’s ‘Competition of Ideas’ for a New School-Building Programme

Italy’s “Competition of Ideas” for Innovative Schools could stimulate architectural & educational debate.

La Buona Scuola, learning spaces, school design
Image of Adrian Leaman

Post-Occupancy Evaluation and Schools – an interview with Adrian Leaman

Adrian Leaman on what makes school buildings special, PoE and managing complexity.

architecture and people, Post-Occupancy Evaluation, school design
Image of Ola Uduku

Schools and School Design in Africa: An Interview with Ola Uduku

Ola Uduku (Edinburgh University) speaks about the historical influence of Western pedagogies and architectural traditions and their local adaptation in school design.

Africa and Education, architecture, school design, spaces and politics

Futures for English School Design

The following is a list of things we learned during the Education Estates conference, held in Manchester on 10-11th November … More

education, Education Estates, school design

Does a School Building need to look like a School?

…is a question posed by the architect of the school where I’m doing my research. It came up in an … More

school design, spatial cultures, wacky architecture

I started school twice: an interview with Bridget Murray, teacher

Bridget Murray attended primary schools in the late 1970s in Middlesborough, Hertfordshire and Basingstoke, Hampshire (UK) where she also went … More

environment, Institute of Education, school design, special school

A less modern but more hi-tech primary: more from the DfE’s PSBP

Following yesterday’s cheaper, faster … and better?  post, I must apologise for a lack of thoroughness in my research of … More

cheaper, DfE, faster, Gov.UK, modern schools, PSBP, school design

PBSP school buildings in the UK: cheaper, faster… better?

A Victorian-era community primary has been rebuilt as a modern replacement primary academy in the West Midlands of England and … More

academy schools, Architect, BSF, DfE, durability, flexibility, Helen Taylor, modern schools, primary schools, PSBP, school design

Interview with Sarah Cuthill, archivist and librarian

Sarah Cuthill is school librarian at Clifton High School in Bristol, England and has worked in archives and libraries in … More

bookcases, electronic media, junior school, library design, reading, school design, school librarian, Switzerland, village school

Interview with Sue Steggles, teacher.

Sue Steggles was a pupil at John Scurr primary school, Bethnal Green in the East End of London in the … More

architecture, London primary schools, reading corner, Reading Recovery teacher, school design, school playground

Measuring the Impact of School Design – Differently

To move beyond traditional measures of research impact, this post on the LSE Impact blog proposes a range of alternative … More

impact, Post-Occupancy Evaluation, school design

Summer Reading – “Seeing Like a State” and the survival of high modernism in school planning

For a book that says almost nothing about Education – no classrooms, no students or teachers, no school architecture – … More

hubris, James C. Scott, modernism, planning, school design, seeing like a state

Interview with Suvani Dave

Suvani Dave has attended independent primary and secondary schools in Ashford, Windsor and Hounslow.  She is currently a student in … More

pupil participation, school design

AR’s School Awards: will the interiors count? That’s where students spend their 13,585 school hours…

As the Architectural Review’s School Awards close, let’s hope the judges give due emphasis to the design of the interiors … More

architecture and people, school architecture, school design

A school on the edge of a small town

Treetops Primary is to be sited on the edge of a small town in the South of England on a … More

architecture, building design, charette, landscape design, model making, school design, trees

What is a class?

I’d never been inside an architect’s office until a couple of years ago but I’d always been curious to know … More

a school in a day, Architect, class, primary school, SCABAL, school design

Can Economics explain why we don’t know what schools users think of their schools?

Recently I’ve been learning about Post-Occupancy Evaluation, mostly from the tons of great resources at the Usable Buildings Trust. It’s … More

architecture, economics, Post-Occupancy Evaluation, public goods, school design, voice

Why are there so many interviews on the A&E site?

For a while, I’ve been posting interviews here without writing anything about why these interviews are such an integral part … More

architecture, education, interview, school design

Interview with Dominic Cullinan, SCABAL

Dominic Cullinan is an architect and founding partner of SCABAL (Studio Cullinan & Buck Architects Ltd.) based in Hatton Garden. … More

architects, SCABAL, school buildings, school design

Interview with Dr Catherine Burke

Dr Catherine Burke is a well-known historian of childhood, education and school design whose books include School (2008) and The School … More

11-plus exam, A Life in Education and Architecture, architecture, Birmingham primary schools, Colin Ward, design, Ian Grosvenor, School, school design, school space, the built environment, The School I'd Like, University of Cambridge

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