Excerpt from School Architecture: A Handy Manual for the Use of Architects and School Authorities
Modern schoolhouse exterior is, perhaps, as much the reflex of the popular taste in architecture, as exemplified in the average school official, as it is the product of the architect. No doubt schoolhouse exteriors would be the gainer in beauty, simplicity and dignity if the architect had always dared to give full expression to his own ideas.
But, schoolhouse designs are made to sell rather than to educate public taste. The architect must try to please the taste or fancy of prospective patrons. When he is thrown into close competition, he cannot afford to deal in ideals. He must meet conditions.
It is, therefore, safer to yield to the suggestions of an experienced architect than to insist upon hobbies in the matter of design and form.
The impression prevails in some localities that an architect is not necessary in the planning and construction of a small schoolhouse. This is erroneous.
An architect should always be drawn into counsel - whether the contemplated schoolhouse be large or small.
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