ABSTRACT
Buildings provide the environment for nearly all of society's activities, and as a result, buildings are one of the most accurate historical records of a culture. There exists an inevitable cause-and-effect relationship between social and architectural development. Since classic Greek civilization, when Socrates instructed students gathered in the shade of an olive tree, the methodology of formal education has remained remarkably unaltered. It has consisted almost invariably of a single teacher instructing a group of students. In climates where a need was felt to provide a sheltered environment for this activity, it was natural to simply provide a room large enough to contain the teacher-student group. The key concept in the programming procedure was a coherent organizational structure based on an intensively active Educational Specifications Committee. This committee had primary responsibility for guiding the entire facility development process from long-range planning through programming, design, construction, furnishing, staffing, curriculum development, and orientation to the new school.
