Collaborators
The intent of this page is to highlight the work of School Design Research Studio research collaborators as well as highlight the work of colleagues conducting research internationally in the area of school design research specifically and children, youth and environments more broadly
Larry
Anderson, Ed.D.
Founder, National Center for Technology Planning
http://www.nctp.com/
Jim
Biehle, AIA
Inside/Out Architecture, Inc.
http://www.insideoutarch.com
Ed
Brzezowski, PE
Facility Energy Services
http://www.fes-nj.com/
Herb
Childress, Ph.D.
Director of Research
Bay Area Coalition for Essential Schools
Paul
Jacobs, Ph.D.
College of Education
University of Texas at San Antonio
Dale
Christopher Lang Ph.D.
Educational Design: Planning and Consulting
Dale is currently engaged with large school conversions and "small
school" designs. His area of expertise involves educational space
planning with environmental behavioral research. Simply stated, he is
interested in discovering the nature and needs of each school's/district's
unique culture, their collaborative relational development and the necessary
physical characteristics that are critical to the performance within school
environments vital to learning progress.
http://www.educationaldesign.net
e-mail: dalelang@vircom.net
Lorraine
Maxwell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Human-Environment Relations and the Facilities
Planning and Management
Cornell University
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/lem3/
Gary
T. Moore, Ph.D.
Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of
Sydney
http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~gtmoore/
Henry
Sanoff, AIA, Ph.D.
School of Architecture
North Carolina State University
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~sanoff/schooldesign/cd.html
C.
Kenneth Tanner, Ed.D.
School Design and Planning Laboratory, The University of Georgia
http://www.coe.uga.edu/sdpl/sdpl.html
Anne
Taylor, Ph.D., Hon. AIA
Professor and Director of The Institute for Environmental Education, University
of New Mexico
http://www.designshare.com/Research/Taylor/Taylor_Programming_1.htm
Kaname
Yanagisawa
Architecture and Urban Design Field, Department of Design and Architecture,
Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University
http://www.yanagisawa.archi.ta.chiba-u.jp/
FEATURED COLLABORATOR: Prakash Nair
Prakash
Nair is an internationally recognized professional in the areas of innovative
school facilities and educational technology. He is the Director of Educational
Facilities Planning for Vitetta and President of Urban Educational Facilities
for the 21st Century. Before that, Prakash served as the Director of Operations
for a multi-billion dollar school construction program in New York City.
His many articles on designing school facilities that will endure well
into the 21st century have been internationally published in print and
on the Internet and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation interviewed
him twice on the subject.
Prakash consults internationally and has conducted numerous seminars and
workshops at the invitation of professional organizations and governments
in five countries on four continents including the Netherlands and Australia.
Prakash can be reached at: Prakash@Designshare.com
or http://prakashnairconsulting.com/index.html
