Linking Architecture and Education: Sustainable Design of Learning Environments

by Anne Taylor

Book Overview

For the past forty years Anne Taylor has studied how schools, classrooms, playgrounds, homes, museums, and parks affect children and how they learn. As a result, she has developed a holistic, sustainable philosophy of learning environment design. She argues persuasively that architects must integrate their design knowledge with an understanding of the developmental needs of learners, while at the same time educators, parents, and students must...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826334075
• ISBN13: 9780826334077
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 451 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.8" x 10.9"