Mary and David Medd's Work: Domesticity in Postwar British School Design (1949-72)

Autor/inn/en	Lacomba Montes, Paula; Campos Uribe, Alejandro
Titel	Mary and David Medd's Work: Domesticity in Postwar British School Design (1949-72)
Quelle	In: Oxford Review of Education, 47 (2021) 5, S.597-617 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lacomba Montes, Paula)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-4985
DOI	10.1080/03054985.2021.1924652
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Facilities Design; Educational History; Classrooms; Elementary Schools; Educational Environment; Classroom Design; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Classroom; Klassenraum; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Klassenraumgestaltung; Großbritannien
Abstract	This article focuses on the schools developed by Mary and David Medd within the Ministry of Education in Great Britain, 1949-1976. Their main contribution to the field of Educational Architecture was the definition of a design strategy known as "Built-in variety," where the self-contained classrooms ("empty-box-school") disappeared in favour of a variety of dissimilar places. Indeed, the Medds sustained a very innovative view from which primary educational architecture was profoundly reconceptualised, getting closer to a "home" than to an institution. Actually, the paper argues that it was precisely this driving principle -- school "as a home" -- that was responsible for the dismantlement of the traditional school types. This article proposes a close look into the design process as an object of study in its own right, in search for the underlying principles of the Medds' primary school designs. The acknowledgement of some features of the English house has been a good means of coming to understand the Medds' strategy and its domestic "aura," for the schools' spatial hierarchy recalls the internal spatial structure of Arts and Crafts houses of the late nineteenth century. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01