LFSSONS FROM HISTORY

摘要

Programme must be considered as something rather special. The Schools Programme dates from the end of the war... since then we have built 3,250,000 school places and despite the ever-increasing rise in the cost of living this has not been reflected in the cost of school building. Fifteen years of planned school building has done a great deal to promote architectural design in this country and to enhance the reputation of the profession. The machine behind the programme is suited to the times and works smoothly and efficiently. Directly one is concerned with the design and construction of a series of buildings over a period of time, one can take advantage of the lessons learned in one year to improve the buildings of the following year. It is also possible to standardise both office procedures and building methods. Standardisation is almost considered to be a dirty word in some places. In fact it represents a rational approach to design in which unnecessary variation in sizes, materials and detail are eliminated with the obvious attendant reduction in costs. Many of the lessons of the Schools Programme have still to be learnt... the time is now ripe for its history to be written.