Ryan Waller is a partner at Other Means, a Brooklyn-based graphic design studio working with architects, artists, curators, editors, institutions, and schools.
Is it a prison? An office block? A media center? School architecture is one of the field’s greatest challenges, but, for political and financial reasons, rarely gets the attention it deserves. OASE 72 observes the unusual example of the Netherlands, where a combination of policy changes and new design challenges have recently bumped this issue up on the public agenda. The renewed interest springs in part from an issue of global concern: the new demands of today’s information society. Schools are also increasingly infiltrated by extra-curricular functions, and ideological and pedagogical distinctions are making way for a view of the…
