Featured Articles
At VMDO, we’re constantly keeping in touch within the industry, and outside of it, by pushing ideas forward. Here we explore lessons that further improve us as designers…and therefore our work. The following articles will appeal to anyone interested in how the design of schools can not only shape the learning that happens inside, but also the surrounding community—and the environment, itself.
- Designing Safe Facilities
Years after the worst school shootings, new building plans, combined with new technologies, make for safer and more secure environments.
1 Sep 2011 | Susan McLester | Read Article >> - John Handley High School
2011 Learning By Design Honorable Mention
2 Jun 2011 | Read Article >> - Energy-Saving Civic Buildings
Ten new civic buildings showcase design strategies that trim electricity bills.
1 May 2011 | Read Article >> - Greening the Classroom 1 Nov 2010 | Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson | Read Article >>
- Nature as the Teacher 1 Sep 2010 | Wyck Knox and Steve Davis | Read Article >>
- Curing Nature Deficit Disorder 1 Jul 2010 | Alanna Malone | Read Article >>
- Let the Sun Shine In 1 Mar 2010 | Cindy Long | Read Article >>
- Get With the Program 1 Nov 2009 | Frances Watson Lengowski | Read Article >>
- Averett's New Face 1 Aug 2008 | Mary Prevo | Read Article >>
- College Unions Transform Campus Life at Small Regional Institutions 1 May 2008 | Joseph Atkins and David Oakland | Read Article >>