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Tour: Chicago Schools: Designing for 21st Century Education
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 | 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM | 6 LU/HSW/GBCI | Fee: $65
This tour visits four schools across Chicago to see how architects are designing and renovating spaces for 21st-century education. The Veterans Memorial School Campus is a 180,000-square foot facility located in Archer Heights, transformed from an abandoned baked-goods manufacturing building to two elementary schools and a high school. This adaptive reuse structure currently serves 1,800 K-12th grade students. GEMS World Academy, located in the dense downtown Lakeshore East neighborhood, is a mid-rise, private school serving children in kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12). The Wolcott School, where one in five students need additional learning support, is designed to accommodate the differences in learning styles for the diverse student population. The L-shaped, sustainable Skinner School is a new construction project that serves 780 K-8 students in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood. (Tour #: ET103)
Reception: AIA Committee on Architecture for Education Networking Reception
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Fee: $55
Join AIA colleagues and allied professionals to celebrate CAE's Educational Facility Design Awards and network with your peers. We'll celebrate the current recipients, this year's superb jury, and the contributions of more than 7,000 CAE members. (Event#: EV107)
Session: AIA Committee on Architecture for Education Design Awards Program: Insights and Opportunities
Saturday, June 28, 2014 | 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | 1 LU | Fee: $0 (advance registration recommended)
The Design Awards program offers architects, clients, and the public examples of proven strategies and the latest trends in the planning, design, and construction of educational environments of all types. This course offers insights into how the awards program is structured and reflects on what constitutes an award-winning project. The design of educational environments is rapidly changing as a response to research in how people learn, a focus on energy efficiency, and a response to an integrated world. Each year, a national jury selects projects that demonstrate quality of form, functionality, and innovative solutions that promote learning for people of all age groups. The Design Excellence Award honors educational facilities that the jury believes should serve as an example of a superb place in which to learn, furthering the client's mission, goals and educational program while demonstrating excellence in architectural design. (Session#: SA111)
Session: Great Schools by Design
Saturday, June 28, 2014 | 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 1.5 LU/HSW/RIBA | Fee: $0 (advance registration recommended)
Each day across the United States, more than 59 million students, teachers, and education employees spend considerable time in our nation’s 120,000 school buildings. Unfortunately, too many of these schools are aging, crowded, and in need of repair. These pervasive conditions negatively impact our children’s ability to learn and our teachers’ ability to teach. With school enrollment forecasted to increase at record levels through 2013, and spending on school construction, renovation, and maintenance expected to total nearly $30 billion annually, the need to transform our schools has never been more urgent. The American Architectural Foundation holds School Design Institutes for local school leaders in cities across the country. At these events, mayors, school superintendents, and other school design stakeholders meet with design and planning experts for focused discussions about school design and planning issues in their cities. Recent School Design Institutes include Akron, OH; Bridgeport, CT; Manchester, NH; Oklahoma City, OK; and St. Louis, MO. The most recent Great Schools by Design Institute was held at one of St.Paul's Public Schools in partnership with Target Corp. The program focused on how to use the "Design Thinking" process in re-designing an existing elementary school to meet the needs of a 21st-century learner. Most of our building stock as it relates to school buildings are old and built in the '60s, '70s, '80s. Numerous school districts across the country are faced with the challenge of revamping their existing facilities with minimal dollars to fit the ever-changing needs of our next generation of learners. The Great Schools by Design program is a great conversation starter on how architects can engage with their respective communities in meeting the educational needs of the future generation. (Session#: SA210)
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