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The Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) is a Knowledge Community of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). We are a large and active group of over 10,000 architects and allied professionals concerned with the quality and design of all types of educational, cultural, and recreational facilities that promote lifelong learning in safe, welcoming and equitable environments. The CAE’s mission is to foster innovative and collaborative design of educational facilities and to heighten public awareness on the importance of learning environments.

  

  • 1.  Posting article on Brutalism Design in Schools

    Posted 07-27-2020 04:38 PM
    Worth considering Sben Korsh''s article titled "Brutality" where he attacks Brutalist architecture and how that "attention to form is often willfully blind to the ways of everyday people-especially people of color-perceive and are affected by imposing concrete structures, many built as schools, prisons, and symbols of state power in the 1970's."  

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    Sally Grans Korsh
    FAIA   LEED AP 
    sgranskorsh@gmail.com
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  • 2.  RE: Posting article on Brutalism Design in Schools

    Posted 07-29-2020 10:27 AM
    ^ Thanks for sharing. Both of those articles ("Brutality" and "Policing Aesthetics") make one think.

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    Shawn Cencer AIA
    Project Architect
    Diekema Hamann Architecture + Engineering
    Kalamazoo MI
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  • 3.  RE: Posting article on Brutalism Design in Schools

    Posted 07-30-2020 05:42 PM
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    With all due respect, this is not that. I have to imagine the program requirements were massive and complex, and this entrance works hard to make itself available.
    https://www.archdaily.com/781440/big-designs-bronx-station-for-new-york-police-department

    I do agree, we need to work harder and be more self critical about our single-minded design preferences. I happen to greatly admire if not love some classic 'brutalist' public structures. However, we build for the city, not for ourselves. I simply believe that we need other institutions to turn to in our communities (besides the Police) that are engaged and socially responsive. Schools are a good place to start with reaching out. They, too, need some perimeter security, however unfortunate it is to admit that. Complex, to be sure.

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    Chava Danielson AIA
    DSH // architecture
    Los Angeles CA
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