Anne Taylor will deliver a lecture and book signing at the UNM School of Architecture and Planning Gallery on Wednesday, Sept. 9 at 5 p.m. Her ongoing exhibition will be displayed in the Pearl Hall Gallery from Aug. 24 until Sept. 12. Ice cream will be served on the patio during the book signing.
For the past 40 years Taylor has studied how schools, classrooms, playgrounds, homes, museums, and parks affect children and how they learn. As a result she has developed a holistic, sustainable philosophy of learning environment design.
In Linking Architecture and Education: Sustainable Design of Learning Environments (UNM Press) she argues persuasively that architects must integrate their design knowledge with an understanding of the developmental needs of learners, while at the same time educators, parents, and students must broaden their awareness of the built, natural, and cultural environment to maximize the learning experience.
When architects are cognizant of newer models of education and educators view the environment as more than a box in which to teach prescribed lessons, the result is an informed architecture that enables children to discover the power of their own learning.
Linking Architecture and Education presents numerous examples of dynamic designs that are the result of interdisciplinary understanding of place. Taylor includes designer perspectives, forums derived from commentary by outside contributors involved in school planning, and a wealth of photographs of thoughtful and effective solutions to create learning environments from comprehensive design criteria.
Anne Taylor, Ph.D., Hon. AIA, ACSA Distinguished Professor, is Regents Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at UNM, where she was the founder and director, for many years, of the Institute for Environmental Education. She is also president of a non-profit School Zone Institute. She is the author of Southwestern Ornamentation and Design and School Zone: Learning Environments for Children, as well as several Architecture and Children curriculum documents.
The UNM Bookstore is located at 2301 Central Ave. NE at the intersection of Cornell and Central. Parking will be validated in the parking structure for up to one hour with purchase. Please call Lisa Walden at 505-277-7494 for more information.