| School Contributor(s): Grosvenor, Ian (Author), Burke, Catherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1861893027 ISBN-13: 9781861893024 Publisher: Reaktion Books OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2008 Annotation: As a specific form of architecture, the school is an amalgam of its function and its history. Though recognizable across cultures, the schoolhouse nevertheless retains the distinctive markings of different nations and eras. "School "is the first book to examine this institutional building's modern growth on a global scale. Ian Grosvenor and Catherine Burke demonstrate how school buildings help organize and manipulate time and space for teachers and students, using methods ranging from bells to lines to lesson plans. They reveal the ways in which schools, by their actual physical situation--surrounded by swathes of green or butting up against other urban structures, in neighborhoods stratified by class or segregated by race--make clear their place in society as fragmented sites of cultural memory and creation. The authors further consider how new technologies and continuing globalization will inevitably force us to rethink our notions of school--and school buildings. In the twenty-first century, these shifts represent a radically new context for education. "School" will provide stimulating reading for anyone interested in this extraordinary evolution of architecture and education. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial - Architecture | History - General - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 306.43 |
| Series: Objekt (Reaktion Books) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 8" (0.97 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As a specific form of architecture, the school is an amalgam of its function and its history. Though recognizable across cultures, the schoolhouse nevertheless retains the distinctive markings of different nations and eras. School is the first book to examine this institutional building's modern growth on a global scale. Ian Grosvenor and Catherine Burke demonstrate how school buildings help organize and manipulate time and space for teachers and students, using methods ranging from bells to lines to lesson plans. They reveal the ways in which schools, by their actual physical situation--surrounded by swathes of green or butting up against other urban structures, in neighborhoods stratified by class or segregated by race--make clear their place in society as fragmented sites of cultural memory and creation. The authors further consider how new technologies and continuing globalization will inevitably force us to rethink our notions of school--and school buildings. In the twenty-first century, these shifts represent a radically new context for education. School will provide stimulating reading for anyone interested in this extraordinary evolution of architecture and education. |