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Hall, Tony – European Journal of Education, 2017
This issue of the "European Journal of Education" examines a crucially important, though largely overlooked, area in educational design research: architecting and building physical educational environments. Effective policymaking in school design necessitates the negotiated, shared and timely input of key educational stakeholders,…
Descriptors: Architecture, School Buildings, Educational Facilities Design, Reggio Emilia Approach
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Dutton, Thomas A.; Grant, Bradford C. – Academe, 1991
Through aesthetics, styles, and organization of space, campus architecture has often been complicit in reproducing dominant ideologies and social relations of society, undermining diversity and its possibilities. Architectural scholars, as teachers of architecture, should move theory and practice into new, more critical social terrain. (MSE)
Descriptors: Architecture, Building Design, Campus Planning, College Buildings
MacVean, Donald S. – 1980
This report is a detailed analysis of a university committee's performance of an important and extensive task--the preparation of a program for a new library building. It is offered in order to clearly show the operations of a university committee, making a qualitative assessment of its performance, and to partially fill a void in the literature…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Action Research, Advisory Committees, Building Design
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Waltenspuhl, Paul – Educational Media International, 1994
Explores the type of school construction suitable for instruction that includes lectures, experiment, and creation. The philosophical bases of a triadic approach to learning that appeals to feeling, rationality, and imagination are considered. Four detailed diagrams portraying the author's concepts are included. (Contains four references.) (KRN)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Architecture, Building Design, Cognitive Processes
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Biehle, James – Planning for Higher Education, 1996
A survey of senior administrators from private colleges and universities (n=20), community colleges (n=9), and public colleges and universities (n=6) in 1 region discovered common priorities in campus reconstruction and renovation: upgrading of science and engineering facilities; integration of new technology on campus; upgrading of student…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Building Design, College Administration, College Buildings
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Michalak, Sarah – Journal of Library Administration, 1994
Discusses the future of libraries in the electronic age both in terms of the facility itself and of the types of information to be stored or accessed in the facility. Library facilities must have the ability to adapt easily both to technological changes, changing patterns of service and use, and the growth and change of departments, within the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Building Design, Facility Improvement, Facility Requirements