Building Futures is a response to the social, cultural, and environmental challenges facing Native tribes of the Southwest, with the goal of addressing adverse impacts on Native youth and their schools. The proposal argues for the rejection of a typological “Native American architecture” in school design, in pursuit of an ...

Located deep in the heart of the Western Ghat mountain range in the southern Indian state of Karnataka is Kodagu - a land and a tribe whose history goes back thousands of years in time. An ancient and elusive culture - a fierce martial forest tribe were the guardians of the great forests that lie in this region. They are the ...

We as a species face a fundamental disconnect with our surroundings that has created an existential threat to our continued survival on this planet. If we are to change we need to allow ourselves the opportunities to make deeper connections with our environment once again. The idea of nature is socially constructed. It is ...

Currently, the scale and speed of human progress is disproportionate to live sustainably within the environment. This type of progress has forced us to choose between the continuation of human excess or the balance and rekindling between the human and natural world. Through an exploration into the ways that our environment ...

Each school day, Seattle public school children are served a lunch that does not reflect the city’s access to fresh food, its progressive attitudes on sustainability, nor its successful thriving industries. However, changing children’s behavior toward their personal health and the health of the environment starts not only ...

The design of future schools and learning environments will be influenced by advances in information and communication technology and the pedagogical responses to the freedoms that it provides. Understanding the physical environment connection to the future roles of teachers and students in the digital age is an important ...

Digital media and tools are now integral to architectural education and the design process. Nevertheless, much of the pedagogy related to digital media is grounded in, and relies upon, traditional design educational approaches. The relationship of the practice of architecture to digital technology is in constant flux. Recently, ...

Thirty percent of California public school facilities are made of portable buildings. Portable classrooms are uninspiring and inadequate spaces for learning, reflective of a cultural indifference for the education of California's youth. Children should be engaged and connected to learning from a young age to maximize their ...

As Seattle continues to increase in density, so has the demand for schools. Traditionally designed in a horizontal, dispersed fashion, schools are meant to provide the space to promote learning and growth. However, as the population within the city increases, land becomes scarce, and fostering a learning environment becomes ...