BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

PREFACE
In recent years a number of industrialised countries have developed
projects which in one way or another associate school buildings with community
facilities designed for different functions or uses. Thus, school
and non-school activities are accommodated within the same physical setting,
implying relations of inter-dependence between the agencies and institutions
responsible for the various activities. The countries participating
in the Programme on Educational Building (PEB) decided there--.
fore that the scope and significance of these experiences, which seem far
more important than might be inferred from their limited number, called
for closer analysis and clarification.
The PEB study on Co-ordination of School and Community Facilities
consequently began by examining the why's and how's of projects which aim
not only at meeting the educational needs of a community but also at
creating a framework within which the overall social needs of the community
can be taken into account. A certain number of concrete examples of coordinated
facilities projects, drawn from various countries, were examined
and most of these have been the subject of detailed case studies which are
published in four separate volumes, each devoted to a given country
(England/Australia, France, Sweden and the United States).
In addition, these individual studies have served as a basis for a
further analysis which aimed at identifying common problems likely to be
of interest to those concerned in Member countries, and at proposing strategies
for action. This second phase of the study led to the preparation
of a Synthesis based on the findings of the case studies and to the. organisation
of a Symposium on School and Community Building in Relation to
Urban Dynamics held at Skokloster, Sweden, from 27th September to
1st October, 1976. The report on the latter is published together with
the Synthesis in a. separate volume under the title, Building for School
and Community: I. Policies and Strategies.
The texts brought together in the present volume concern the United
States. The principal text has been prepared, with the help of the
Secretariat, by Mrs. Margrit Kennedy, consultant architect; it is not