Schools and Kindergartens

As a new generation of educational environments are designed and built, this Design Manual illustrates the most up-to-date educational strategies and how they are realized in built form. Concepts such as working with small teams of students, interdisciplinary learning and inclusion of SEN students all require specific spation solutions. This specialized field is explained in all its relevant aspects such as role in the community, outdoor spaces, sustainability and technical requirements such as lighting and acoustics. With over 70 case studies from Europe, North America and the Pacific Region, this is an essential guide for architects involved in the design of schools and kindergartens. For the revised edition six groundbreaking new best-practice examples were selected such as Primary School Niederheide near Berlin, the first plus-energy school in Germany, the education center "Tor zur Welt", one of the key projects of building exhibition IBA 2013 in Hamburg and "Children's House for All" by Maki Onisha and Toyo Ito, conceived for use in refugee camps.

Auteur

Mark Dudek runs a London-based design practice and is a consultant for education buildings, both in the UK and elsewhere. He has been involved in the design of numerous educational environments for some 25 years. Amongst his projects were four Children's Centres in the London Borough of Hillingdon, the Classroom of the Future at Yewlands Secondary School in Sheffield, an Ecolab at Stanley Infant and Nursery School in London and the ecological garden area Discovering Kids Playgroup in Magherafelt, Co. Derry in Northern Ireland (with Clare Devlin) as well as two prototype schools for Khorog, Tajikistan. Mark Dudek's publications include Architecture of Schools, Architectural Press, 2001, and Kindergarten Architecture, Spon, 2000. He has spoken at numerous conferences in the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and the USA and advises the UK Government's design association CABE. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Research Fellow at the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield.