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Archive for April, 2009

SDA: Architect In The House Case Study + Testimonial

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Stephen Donald, director and founder of Stephen Donald Architects Ltd, has been contributing to Architect in the House for the last 10 years.
In 2008 the AITH initiative allowed him to meet a passionate client looking to renovate his home, in Hollybush Hill, East London.
The client’s brief was to reorganise the ground and first floor areas [...]

We shape our environments and then they shape us.

Friday, April 24th, 2009

We shape our environments and then they shape us.
This is especially true of schools; the influence the architecture of school buildings has on developing minds is surely incalculable.
What should a school fit for 21st century teaching purposes actually be like? We need to be skeptical of the most popular type of current thinking which [...]