Prakash Nair
Prakash Nair is an American school architect, entrepreneur, writer and public speaker who advocates for open classrooms in schools.
Nair is the founding president of Education Design International and a former founding president of Fielding Nair International. His teams designed or redesigned public and private schools and colleges across the globe. Some of those projects won industry design awards for excellence, including the James D. MacConnell Award — the highest award conferred by the Association for Learning Environments, A4LE — for Dr. Phinnize J. Fisher Middle School in Greenville, South Carolina and for the Reece High School in Tasmania, Australia.
Nair has written extensively about school design and authored three books, Blueprint for Tomorrow: Redesigning Schools for Student-Centered Learning, Learning by Design: Live Play Engage Create, and The Language of School Design: Design Patterns for 21st Century Schools.Works
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