THE EYES HAVE IT

摘要

School architecture has undergone many changes down the years. Educational philosophy has been a major influence. So too has children's visual health. From the end of the 19th and into the 20th century good daylighting was widely believed to prevent children's sight being damaged as they went through school. Rules and standards specified minimum light levels in classrooms to this end with 'The Daylight Factor' eventually becoming the standard method for daylighting evaluation. Then, in the 1960s, medical opinion changed, and so lighting schools to protect eyesight stopped. But recent scientific findings now suggest it may be time to start again.