ABSTRACT
To further situate the School Construction Systems Development (SCSD) within its historical context, this chapter provides a review of flexible schools after the SCSD. It vaguely refers to the need to consider expansion, joint-use, and adaptive reuse. There were, however, occasional references during this time to flexibility for specialty facilities such as higher education research laboratories. While the reviews of the pre-SCSD flexible schools and the post-SCSD flexible schools are certainly not exhaustive, they do provide a robust survey of the many causes and forms of flexible schools that can now be synthesized in several summary tables. As innovative as the SCSD was, it should be very clear that there are many other modes of flexibility that the SCSD did not address and two of the modes of flexibility that the SCSD considered important (long-term changeability and expansion) are nearly absent in the current discourse.
