Prakash Nair

Don’t Just Rebuild Schools—Reinvent Them
Nair, Prakash (2009)
Education Week, Vol. 28, Issue 28, (8 April) Pages 24-25.

Accommodating an Education Revolution: How Victorian schools are re-organising for the 21st Century
Nair, P & Gehling, A (2008)
Professional Voice Australian Education Union (Victoria), Vol. 5 Issue 3.

Democratic Architecture: The Community Centre Model
Nair, P & Gehling, A (2008)
Voices in Urban Education Anneberg Institute at Brown University, Spring.

Introduction to ReThink!
Nair, P & Gehling, A (2007)
edited by La Marca, S. School Library Association of Victoria.

The Language of School Design
Co-authored with Randall Fielding
DesignShare, 2005

A Comfortable Truth
Edutopia, April/May 2007. 8 Truths About Comfort in Schools. Click here to download pdf. Or click here to read article online.

Building Futures – Video Interview with Prakash Nair
Click to see video clips of an interview with Prakash Nair by the Department of Education & Training, Victoria, Australia.

Getting Beyond the School as Temple 
Edutopia, 2006

Radically Rethinking Education
Interview with Designer/Builder Magazine

Planning Technology-Friendly School Buildings
Published by School Planning and Management

Master Classroom
Thinking like Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, or Jamie Oliver can help you look at school design in a whole new light. Co-authored with Randall Fielding.
Edutopia, 2006

Small Is BIG
The way space is organized can give school a powerful sense of community. Co-authored with Randall Fielding.
Edutopia, 2005

Building the Future:
Lessons From Tasmania
Education Week and DesignShare

Planning Schools As
Symbols of Change
The Council of Educational Facility Planners International

30 Strategies for Education Innovation 
DesignShare

Making Peace with Campfires – Confessions of a Reformed Radical
Education Week

But Are They Learning?
Education Week

The Changing Shape of Learning
“Connection” – New England Board of Higher Education (also, see related article below)

Imperatives for Change
in Higher Education
DesignShare

Educational Specifications Forum
Moderated by Randall Fielding
DesignShare

Schools for the 21^st Century,
Are You Ready?
School Manager Center – European Schoolnet

The Impact of Time on the Design of Learning Environments 
American Institute of Architects

School Safety – Problem or Goal?
DesignShare

Impact of Education
Trends on School Facility Design
DesignShare

The Student Laptop Computer
in Classrooms – Not Just a Tool
Florida Educational Technology Corporation

Education Through
Technology Integration
Urban Educational Facilities for the 21^st Century

A Proven Methodology for
Assessing School Buildings
with Nadine Chin-Santos
School Planning and Management

Wired Vs. Wireless
An interview by Randall Fielding
DesignShare

The Role of Wireless Computing Technology in the Design of Schools 
National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, US Dept of Education

Wireless Wide Area Networks
for School Districts
National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, US Dept of Education

Interview by Edutopia Magazine (with Randall Fielding)

A Fusion of Eastern and Western Philosophies to Plan Tomorrow’s Schools

Schools – Good for Children?

The Great Learning Street Debate

Randall Fielding

Learning, Lighting and Color
Lighting Design for Schools and Universities in the 21st Century. Published in 2005 and 2006 by The European Lighting Designer’s Association (ELDA), the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD), Edutopia, DesignShare, and UK-based Schools For Life

Hip Hop High Gives Dropouts a Second Chance
Designer Builder, A Journal of the Human Environment, 2006
The story of Hip-hop High, designed by FNI

Randall Fielding Interviewed on Charlotte Radio
The American Institute of Architects had a symposium in late September 2006 to improve the quality of schools in Charlotte. Randy is interviewed along with Harvey Gantt, former Charlotte Mayor. Click here for streaming audio or download MP3 files to your desktop.

Randy Fielding interviewed on WCCO radio: “Human Rights and Design for Learning”
Click here for streaming audio or download MP3 files to your desktop.

Master Classroom
Thinking like Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, or Jamie Oliver can help you look at school design in a whole new light. Co-authored with Prakash Nair.
Edutopia, 2006

Small Is BIG
The way space is organized can give school a powerful sense of community. Co-authored with Prakash Nair.
Edutopia, 2005

The Language of School Design
Co-authored with Prakash Nair
DesignShare, 2005

What Can $3.6 Billion Buy? “Los Angeles School Construction Has a Choice”
Building schools quickly and efficiently: are they the right schools?
February 2004

High Performance Schools: A Web of Relationships. Designing sustainable, high-performance school buildings
DesignShare, 2003

Personalized Learning in a Global Context
An exploration of technology-enhanced learning methods at MIT, Cambridge, along with a commentary on the global implications.
DesignShare, 2002

Designing a High School for Collaborative, Project-based Learning.
A summary of key design features supporting collaborative learning.
School Construction News, 2002

Innovative Learning Environments
Watershed planning and design concepts, centered around an American Institute of Architects conference in Asmetsdam, 2000.
The National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, 2001

Lighting the Learning Environment 
An introduction to current issues in lighting as they apply to learning environments including full-spectrum lamps, direct/indirect lighting and light-reflectance values.
School Cosntruction News. 2000

Wired Versus Wireless
An online debate on technology in school computer networks between network expert Glenn Meeks and wireless advocate Prakash Nair.
DesignShare, 1999

Planning the Learning Community
An interview with Steven Bingler and an exploration of planning methodologies for shared-use facilities and community consensus building
DesignShare, 1999

The Death of the Classroom
DesignShare, 1999

Best Practice in Action: Six Essential Elements that Define Tomorrow’s Schools, The Council of Educational Planners International, Phoenix, 2006

Facility Design Guidelines for the Global Economy, Azerbaijan Ministry of Education, 2006

Learning by Design, Architect’s Forum, Department of Education and Training, Victoria, Australia, 2006

Vocational Training Center Design, Sri Lanka Tsunami Reconstruction Program, US Aide for International Development, Colombo, 2006

Impact on Learning School Facilities, A New Language for Planning and Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, keynote presentation, Austin, 2005

Research-Based School Design, The European Council of International schools, Prague, 2005

Beyond the Knowledge Economy, School Design in the Age of Innovation, keynote presentation, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, 2004

Design Patterns for Innovative Learning Communities, keynote presentation, LETA, Adelaide, Australia, 2004

Designing Schools for the Age of Creativity, keynote presentation and workshop, Singapore Ministry of Education, 2004

Innovative Learning Spaces in Higher Education, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 2004

Design for Project-Based Learning, AIA conference Los Angeles, 2003

Key Ideas from DesignShare
UNESCO/UIA international conference, Porto, Portugal, 2001 & Santiago, Chile 2003

Ecological Systems and High Performance School, Presentation and course facilitation, University of Wisconsin, 2003

Patterns in Educational Facility Design, CEFPI Vancouver, Canada, 1999

The Effects of Brain-compatible Learning on Facilities, CEFPI Minneapolis, 1998

Community Involvement in Master Planning, CEFPI, Texas, 1995