ABSTRACT

The architects who design American high schools must have a keen ecological sense; they do not all look alike. Grummitt High School is on a main road out of town, past the shopping malls, but not yet in the farm country. It is nested between the tract housing developments that you see off the road and the one level brick small industrial parks, like those that landscape the highways leading in and out of most American cities. Grummitt High School looks like one of these small industrial parks, with their adjacent car parking lots, which sometimes give the appearance of being public buildings by flying the American flag out front.