Education in the K-12 world is rapidly evolving in signifcant social, cultural, and pedagogical directions. Innovative schools take on a wide range of social and cultural challenges in their ultimate mission to prepare students for a dynamic future. Incorporating new technologies, reaching out to support under-served or disenfranchised groups, nurturing creative thinking, and engaging the business community are just some of the ways that creative schools are re-defning public education.
Today’s approach to K-12 innovation is all about fexibility and change. School architecture is driven by pedagogy, which is itself profoundly affected by the fuid development of information and classroom technologies. Learning, subject to this type of wide-ranging evolution, calls for the architecture itself to be less about a building and more an operable, adaptable platform. As a current example of this important trend we look at a project in design for a forward-thinking public school district in California.