| For Back to School, 42 Projects Later
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| For Back to School/ School is back in session, football season is well underway and your homework is due. KFA has a long and rich history developing versatile educational spaces that help provide the correct environment to foster student learning and growth. From university buildings to campus-wide master planning to libraries, gyms, athletic facilities, social spaces, and laboratories, KFA has been designing educational buildings and environments since 1985. Our first educational project began in the desert of southern Nevada. A determined group of parents, led by now Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, decided to start The Meadows School, a new college preparatory school in Clark County, and was granted 40 acres by Howard Huges Properites in Summerlin, a new town northwest of Las Vegas. With the help and vision of the school community, KFA developed a formal master plan to distinguish the school in the sparse landscape, placing multiple buildings around a central commons, with small courtyards separating the different uses. Over the years, we designed 5 buildings and sports fields, culminating in the Center for the Arts in 2000. Since then, KFA has completed 42 educational projects at UCLA, USC, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Santa Monica College, LA Unified School District, Loyola High School, Mayfield Senior School, The Westerly School, and PS#1 in Santa Monica. At Loyola, we have designed and renovated six buildings and we continue to oversee the ongoing master plan efforts. “Schools are fun buildings to design,” says Wade Killefer. “The faculty, administration and parents bring great enthusiasm to the projects that are inherently optimistic in their intent.” We often lead design workshops to start off the design process allowing every participant to design their own ideal school.
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| Pop Quiz! How Do We Design Learning Spaces for Today's Teachers and Students?
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KFA's Shu-Chi Hsu Proves She's Not Too Cool for School For Personal Growth/ One of KFA's architects, Shu-Chi, was recently accepted to the EMBA Program at UCLA's Anderson School of Management.
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