A NEW Language of School Design
Prakash Nair,
Dr. Parul Minhas
LEARNING BY DESIGN
Live | Play | Engage | Create Prakash Nair, Roni Zimmer Doctori and Dr. Richard F. Elmore
BLUEPRINT FOR TOMORROW
Redesigning Schools for Student Centered Learning Prakash Nair
THE LANGUAGE OF SCHOOL DESIGN
Prakash Nair, Randall Fielding, Jeffrey Lackney
Unmasking Pseudoteaching
Empowering Students Through Authentic and Active Learning
Prakash Nair, AIA,
Dr. Parul Minhas
Neuroarchitecture
Health, Happiness and Learning
Dr. Parul Minhas,
Prakash Nair, AIA,
Louis Sirota, AIA
School Buildings — The Last Domino
It’s Time for Something New
Prakash Nair, AIA
Biophilic Design
Learning Spaces Inspired by Nature
Prakash Nair, AIA,
Dr. Parul Minhas,
Karin Nakano
The Design of Learning Environments
To Promote Student Health and Well Being
Parul Minhas,
Prakash Nair, AIA
Outdoor Learning: Leave the Classroom Behind
Prakash Nair,
Roni Zimmer Doctori and Gary Stager
Failed Open Plan Offices What Can Schools Learn?
Prakash Nair, AIA
Louis Sirota, AIA
May, 2020
Transforming School Design In A Post-coronavirus World
Prakash Nair, AIA
Roni Zimmer Doctori
March, 2020
Blueprint for Tomorrow: Redesigning Schools for Student-Centered Learning
Nair, Prakash (2014)
Harvard Education Press
Redesigning Schools into Student-Directed Learning Communities
Nair, Prakash
Educadores Journal, December 2018
Reimagining and Renovating As Acts of Choice
Nair, Prakash
School Administrators Magazine, October 2017
The Attention Myth: Why Paying Attention in Class is Overrated
Nair, Prakash
Edutopia, Posted 05/08/2015
The Classroom is Obsolete — It’s Time for Something New
Nair, Prakash (2011)
Education Week
From Cells and Bells to Learning Communities
Nair, Prakash 2014, Harvard Education Letter
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
Life Between Classrooms: Applying Public Space Theory to Learning Environments
Nair, Prakash and Gehling, Annalise (2010)
‘Building Schools for the Future’ (BSF), British Council for School Environments, Pages 26-33.
The authors contributed to a collection of provocation papers entitled “Reshaping Our Learning Landscape” for the British Council for School Environments. Nair and Gehling discuss Jan Gehl’s theory of public space and how it might apply to learning environments today, using the examples of school and university campuses, and exploring the emerging role of informal learning in the 21st Century.
Don’t Just Rebuild Schools—Reinvent Them
Nair, Prakash (2009)
Education Week, Vol. 28, Issue 28, (8 April) Pages 24-25.
Accommodating an Education Revolution: How Victorian schools are re-organising for the 21st Century
Nair, P & Gehling, A (2008)
Professional Voice Australian Education Union (Victoria), Vol. 5 Issue 3.
Democratic Architecture: The Community Centre Model
Nair, P & Gehling, A (2008)
Voices in Urban Education Anneberg Institute at Brown University, Spring.
Introduction to ReThink!
Nair, P & Gehling, A (2007)
edited by La Marca, S. School Library Association of Victoria.
A Comfortable Truth
Edutopia, April/May 2007. 8 Truths About Comfort in Schools.
Getting Beyond the School as Temple
Edutopia, 2006
Master Classroom
Thinking like Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, or Jamie Oliver can help you look at school design in a whole new light. Co-authored with Randall Fielding.
Edutopia, 2006
The Language of School Design
Co-authored with Randall Fielding
DesignShare, 2005
Small Is BIG
The way space is organized can give school a powerful sense of community. Co-authored with Randall Fielding.
Edutopia, 2005
Planning Schools As Symbols of Change
The Council of Educational Facility Planners International
30 Strategies for Education Innovation
DesignShare
The Changing Shape of Learning
“Connection” – New England Board of Higher Education (also, see article below)
A Proven Methodology for Assessing School Buildings
with Nadine Chin-Santos
School Planning and Management