From Large School Buildings to Small School Campuses (2005)

Twenty-one large high school buildings in New York City are being transformed into campuses of small schools, part of the New Century High School Initiative of New Visions for Public Schools. At stake is a dramatic shift in school reform policy, and a basic reorganization of the existing infrastructure of many inner city schools. Laura Kurgan Design worked as the lead design, planning, and process consultant on facilities with New Visions for Public Schools on six of the 21 masterplans. The results—design strategies, a program, education policy and a radically participatory process—have been adopted as best practices and serve as a model for campuses in transition.

Samantha Topol, “The New School,” The Architect’s Newspaper 15, 22 September 2006, ##.