Education and Contextualism

Education and Contextualism focuses on Architecture Design Partnership's work for schools, universities and colleges. The book begins by placing the founding of the practice against the cultural backdrop of the 1960s. The reader is then taken on a journey through ADP's development, taking in their major educational projects, which encompass a wide variety of purposes -- lecture halls; dormitories and boarding houses; sports facilities; education spaces for specialist subjects such as Art, Technology, Sport, Medicine; and Information Technology and E-learning. The book follows ADP's work both for new projects and their extensions and additions to historic and listed buildings. In doing so, ADP's concern with building materials, budget, regeneration, landscaping, and environmental context is fully explored. Education and Contextualism reflects ADP's unique approach to architecture and is a worthy celebration of the practice's 40th anniversary.