Planning & Design


Successful School Design

Successful Designs Inside and Out

Experiential and accessible environments for students with special needs.

Architectural Innovations

Architectural Innovations for Immersive Learning Environments In K-12 Schools

New forms of architecture design for K-12 schools are creating in-depth, adaptive and flexible learning spaces for students with diverse and changing learning needs.

Early Childhood Design

5 Building Blocks of Early Childhood Design

Creating a Student-Centered Environment.

Learning Landscape

Learning Landscape Benefits S.T.E.A.M. Education

The children's center at Caltech reflects local ecology.

Historic Campus

Looking Back, Moving Forward

New buildings on historic campuses must pay homage to the past while claiming their own time and place in history. It's a hard line to walk. Three schools discuss rules to live by and when to break them.

Classrooms

Classrooms

Science Labs: Design to Influence Recruitment, Retention

Cutting-edge design trends for science facilities can help recruit and retain the best and the brightest scientists, faculty and students.

Life Sciences Building

Future Focused

From responsive rooms to bold buildings, today's colleges and universities are embracing innovative learning environments.

There Can Be No Doubt

Facilities and the conditions of the learning environment have an effect on students and staff.

Historic Jones and Palmer Halls

The Next 100 Years

Historic Jones and Palmer Halls Redesigned for New Purposes.

dining facilities

Food For Thought

Turning dining facilities into learning environments.

Seven E-Learning Trends for Educational Institutions in 2017

What is in store for e-learning in 2017?

historic school library

Making Historic Schools Useful Again

Projects tend to be complex, but great for community.

State of our School Infrastructure

Cheat Sheet 2016

A primer of pK-12 public schools infrastructure facts.

21st century education redesign display

SchoolsNEXT Puts Students at the Center of STEM Learning

What greater "grand challenge" is there than to ask students to design compelling and sustainable schools?