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• catalog abstract ""Kindergarten Architecture provides guidance for designers, educationalists and client bodies involved in the most important aspects of pre-school nursery design. It illustrates the major issues through key historical and contemporary kindergartens and demonstrates the practical way in which these ideas can be incorporated into new buildings." "The author also addresses important philosophical questions: should a kindergarten be designed as a 'home from home' or can more radical architectural forms be adopted? What spaces should the modern nursery school have? What symbolic significance do they have to young children? What special details should be considered to enhance the learning environment?"--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog contributor b12084706.
• catalog created "2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
• catalog description ""Kindergarten Architecture provides guidance for designers, educationalists and client bodies involved in the most important aspects of pre-school nursery design. It illustrates the major issues through key historical and contemporary kindergartens and demonstrates the practical way in which these ideas can be incorporated into new buildings." "The author also addresses important philosophical questions: should a kindergarten be designed as a 'home from home' or can more radical architectural forms be adopted? What spaces should the modern nursery school have? What symbolic significance do they have to young children? What special details should be considered to enhance the learning environment?"--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog description "An architectural framework for an educational discussion: conceptions and contradictions -- An architecture for the imagination -- Benefits of the recent growth of pre-school facilities -- Gender issues -- Unemployment, social deprivation and the television as pacifier -- Demographic transormations: needs and benefits -- The wider role of kindergartens and children in the city -- Pre-school educational curricula -- A selective history: aspects of children's culture and architecture for children -- History and concepts -- Childhood before child care: London -- Educational thought from Rousseau to Froebel -- Pedagogical drawing, Froebel and learning to see -- Maria Montessori, Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolf Steiner -- Meaning in contemporary kindergarten architecture -- The modular nursery -- Defining quality: characteristics of space within the kindergarten environment -- Symbolic meanings -- Entrance spaces and lobbies -- Secret spaces: the house within the house, niches, corners and dens -- Kitchens, storerooms, washrooms and lavatories -- The body: water play, baths and pools -- The external environment: gardens, fields, meadows -- Art studios -- Light and colour -- Economy and cost -- The 'green' nursery school: orientation -- Heating -- Lighting.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 217 p., [16] p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0419245200 (pb)".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "London ; New York : Spon Press,".
• catalog subject "727/.1 21".
• catalog subject "Architecture Designs and plans.".
• catalog subject "Kindergarten facilities.".
• catalog subject "LB3325.K5 D83 2000".
• catalog subject "Schools Furniture, equipment, etc.".
• catalog tableOfContents "An architectural framework for an educational discussion: conceptions and contradictions -- An architecture for the imagination -- Benefits of the recent growth of pre-school facilities -- Gender issues -- Unemployment, social deprivation and the television as pacifier -- Demographic transormations: needs and benefits -- The wider role of kindergartens and children in the city -- Pre-school educational curricula -- A selective history: aspects of children's culture and architecture for children -- History and concepts -- Childhood before child care: London -- Educational thought from Rousseau to Froebel -- Pedagogical drawing, Froebel and learning to see -- Maria Montessori, Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolf Steiner -- Meaning in contemporary kindergarten architecture -- The modular nursery -- Defining quality: characteristics of space within the kindergarten environment -- Symbolic meanings -- Entrance spaces and lobbies -- Secret spaces: the house within the house, niches, corners and dens -- Kitchens, storerooms, washrooms and lavatories -- The body: water play, baths and pools -- The external environment: gardens, fields, meadows -- Art studios -- Light and colour -- Economy and cost -- The 'green' nursery school: orientation -- Heating -- Lighting.".
• catalog title "Kindergarten architecture : space for the imagination / Mark Dudek.".
• catalog type "Designs and plans. fast".
• catalog type "text".