«If we take seriously the notion that school buildings present students with powerful messages about what society values,
then school architecture needs to be radically rethought,» she says.
Not exact matches
And
then, when I thought about my life after
school, about how writers must live, how a writer must create, the places where writers go, I thought of New York City walk - ups, of Montreal cobblestones and the longed - for perfecting of my French accent, I thought of London flats, of Paris lofts, I thought of big cities, and crowded streets, old
architecture, late nights, I thought of moving back east.
Through the program, started in September, enrolled students attend their regular high
school during the morning,
then participate in the program in the afternoon, working in internships and taking
architecture and design or urban - sociology classes.
A state, regional network, or
school district first works with LDC to conduct an audit of existing curriculum, and
then develops a plan for establishing or improving both the overall
architecture and specific curriculum for targeted standards, grades, and courses.
Claudia Hart graduated from New York University with a BA cum laude in art history in 1978, and
then studied
architecture at the Columbia University Graduate
School of
Architecture.
The project started in 1998, when Olivier Vadrot, Lionel Mazelaygue and Gwenaël Morin, who were
then students at Lyon's
school of
architecture, decided to open an exhibition space in what used to be the bathroom (salle de bain) of a ground - floor apartment in the historic centre of the city, where they would invite artists who inspired their work as architects to create site - specific proposals in response to the 40sqm space.
Then a little bit later Professor D. Grahame Shane from the
School of
Architecture came and talked to the class about domes and
architecture, also for use as refugee shelters.
I
then went to graduate
school for
architecture, but found too little time for questions of social - architectural integrity and experimental approaches to building, so I dropped out of the program after the first year.
But
then she might be wearing a dress that speaks to cosmopolitan life in Lagos, and she's [in a] setting that speaks to high modern
architecture in New York and
then there's an old
school TV that is playing Nigerian news from the 1980s.
Even with the need for housing, for
schools, for malls, [when] we find an opportunity to build for a particular person, for a particular kid that goes to that
school, for a particular old lady that lives in that apartment buildings, [
then] we discover the possibility of more human
architecture.