Domain of Study: Assessment of american college classroom environments.
Topic: Historical research on the methodology for designing such spaces.
Resource: Jarzombek, M. (2004) Designing MIT: Bosworth’s new tech, Boston: Northeastern University Press
I know that currently, classrooms are designed and assessed in regards to how well the space supports the intended use. This “form follows function” 19th century maxim prevails today and it gradually overcame the pervasiveness in America of classical style and ornamentation of the likes that, at the start of the twentieth century, engineer John R. Freeman remarked that contemporary work was ”preoccupied with aesthetics”, and “rarely thought through the question of use and function”.
Therefore, I would like to begin my exploration with formal 19th century training of architecture students at MIT in regard to educational facilities. Massachusetts Institiute of Technology Special Collections have ‘Classroom exercises marked with grade’ and a book of ‘Classroom assignments’ in their archive that may be helpful to me in finding educational facility projects. Through viewing educational projects and the associated grade/critique I hope to glean a sense of the prevailing direction for design students of such spaces and develop a historic timeline, which might inform how spaces have been assessed in the past and should be now.
I know that currently, classrooms are designed and assessed in regards to how well the space supports the intended use. This “form follows function” 19th century maxim prevails today and it gradually overcame the pervasiveness in America of classical style and ornamentation of the likes that, at the start of the twentieth century, engineer John R. Freeman remarked that contemporary work was ”preoccupied with aesthetics”, and “rarely thought through the question of use and function”.
Therefore, I would like to begin my exploration with formal 19th century training of architecture students at MIT in regard to educational facilities. Massachusetts Institiute of Technology Special Collections have ‘Classroom exercises marked with grade’ and a book of ‘Classroom assignments’ in their archive that may be helpful to me in finding educational facility projects. Through viewing educational projects and the associated grade/critique I hope to glean a sense of the prevailing direction for design students of such spaces and develop a historic timeline, which might inform how spaces have been assessed in the past and should be now.
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