ABSTRACT
Architectural design as a subject of study for a high school student serves as an immediate way to draw his attention to the relationships between a person and his environment. A project has a beginning, a middle, and an end, each of which is a different kind of experience, making different demands. A design idea is always attached to a concrete objective that must be accomplished. The goal of environmental design is not gratification of the designer, but a sense of belonging bestowed on the inhabitant. Between teacher and student this basic differentiation is also centrally important to their relationship, and therefore to the changes that take place between them, and therefore to the education accomplished. Economy is perhaps the central value, the means by which a good idea becomes a good design. Evaluation refers to economy of materials, of energy, of effort, of disappointment, of involvement with others, and the lack of waste, of superfluous information, of unclear communication.
