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Designing for Designers: Lessons Learned from Schools of Architecture

Thomas Fisher, Jack L. Nasar, and Wolfgang F.E. Preiser
  • ©2007
  • 320 Pages
  • 6 x 9, softcover
  • 978-1-56367-459-4
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In Designing for Designers: Lessons Learned from Schools of Architecture, authors Jack L. Nasar, Wolfgang F.E. Preiser, and Thomas Fisher examine the designs of 17 architecture and design schools. They answer questions such as: How has architectural education evolved and what is its future? Are architectural schools built with discernable types of designs and what are their effects on those who experience them? What lessons can be learned from evaluations of recently completed school buildings and what guidance do they provide for the design of future ones? At the heart of this text lies the proposition that we should design as if people matter and Designing for Designers will make readers more aware of problems in architectural interiors and suggest ways to make interiors work better for the building occupants.

• Criteria for building evaluations included: usefulness of spaces, accessibility and layout, quality of construction materials and their applications

• Essays written by faculty members and occupants from the respective colleges featured in the case studies

• Appendix includes materials for gathering data for users to create their own post-occupancy evaluation forms

Transforming Architectural Education
• Redesigning Architecture Education
• Architectural Education on the Verge
• Historical Development of Architectural Schools
• The Architecture School as a Type
Assessing Architecture School Designs
• Assessing Designs of Schools of Architecture
• Lessons Learned and the Future of Schools of Architecture Buildings
Evaluation Case Studies
(United States)
• Austin E. Knowlton Hall, The Ohio State University
• The Langford Architecture Center, Texas A&M University
• College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley Temporary Home
• Aronoff Center for Design and Art, The University of Cincinnati
• Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Rapson Hall, College of Design, University of Minnesota
• College of Architecture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Goldsmith Hall Renovation, The University of Texas at Austin
• Students' Assessment of Architecture Schools
Evaluation Case Studies
(International)
• The School of Architecture, Dokuz Eyl%FC;l University, Turkey
• Evaluation Informing Change: The Wilkinson Architecture Building, The University of Sydney, Australia
• The Department of Landscape Architecture, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

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Thomas Fisher , is a Professor and Dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. Educated at Cornell University in Architecture and Case Western Reserve University in Intellectual History, he previously served as the Editorial Director of Progressive Architecture magazine. He has written 45 book chapters or introductions, over 250 articles, and six books.
Jack L. Nasar , PhD, EDRA, FAICP, is a Professor of City and Regional Planning at The Ohio State University, editor of the Journal of Planning Literature, and an environmental psychologist who studies human perceptions, evaluation, and behavior in relation to the environment. Nasar has a PhD from Pennsylvania State University in Man-Environment Relations, a Masters in Urban Planning from NYU, and a BA in Architecture from Washington University. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and seven books. An invited lecturer around the world, he has received the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Career Achievement Award for the book Designing for Designers (Fairchild), the Ethel Chattel Fellowship from University of Sydney, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Architecture at Washington University, St. Louis.
Wolfgang F.E. Preiser , PhD, AIA, EDRA, is a Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Cincinnati and Associate Editor of the Journal of Environment and Behavior. As a researcher and international lecturer and building consultant, he has worked on topics ranging from universal design, to facility programming, building performance assessments, and health care facilities. He has published over 18 books and 125 chapters, articles and papers in conference proceedings, serves on the editorial boards of major journals, and has received many honors, awards and fellowships, including two Progressive Architecture Research Awards; the EDRA Career Award in 1999; the EDRA Achievement Award in 2007 and 2010; the Rieveschl Award for Scholarly and Creative Works; the Faculty Achievement Award; the Outstanding Service Award; and others, all at the University of Cincinnati.

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