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Prakash Nair Featured in “Education World Magazine” for his Dedication in Transforming India’s Education Landscape

FNI’s Senior Designer, Mariana Boctor, featured in “Cocotte Design”: Designing the NextGen Schools — Just Like Home

FNI Appointed as Master Planners for $800 Million Puerto Rico School Modernization Program

FNI Projects Win Two International Awards

FNI’s innovative approach to school design featured in North American Design Magazine

FNI’s Arcola Community School design featured in Regina Leader-Post.

FNI Selected to serve as Planning and Design Consultant for TJHSST – America’s #1 High School.

Fully Revised 2nd Edition of Language of School Design is now available.

Sinarmas World Academy by FNI Awarded Prestigious Project of Distinction Award in Washington DC.

FNI to partner with India’s Yash Birla Group in a venture that will develop 300+ new schools

Designing Schools for 21st Century Learners
In this film, architect Randall Fielding demonstrates the connection between where and how students learn in the 21st century.

Don’t Just Rebuild Schools—Reinvent Them
“If we simply repair broken structures, we will ignore the real problems with American education while giving renewed life to a model of teaching and learning that has been obsolete since the end of the industrial era.”.

FNI’s Scotch Oakburn College Middle School Project in Launceston, Tasmania has Opened. Details

Randy Fielding interviewed Phorecast: “We need to teach our kids skills, not subjects!” Click here to listen to podcast

End-of-Year News: Several Exciting New Project Wins in Canada, USA, Malaysia and Abu Dhabi.Details

Mid-Year News Update: New projects, EFEI launch and publications. Details

The Cristo Rey Jesuit High School & Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center has been awardedDetails

Randall Fielding awarded CEFPI International Planner of the YearDetails

Microsoft Taps FNI For Key Role in Global Innovative Schools Program Details

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School and Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center in operation in Minneapolis.Details

Health and Fitness Centre Opens at Scotch Oakburn College. Details

Groundbreakings on Cayman Islands.Details

A Comfortable Truth – 8 Truths about Comfort in Schools. Click here for link to new article.

FNI Adds several new consultants and expands service offerings.
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Building Futures – Video Interview with Prakash Nair
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Randall Fielding Interviewed on Charlotte Radio
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Randy Fielding interviewed on WCCO radio: “Human Rights and Design for Learning”
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New Project Wins
in 7 American states, and 6 countries. Details

The Language of School Design – New book by Nair and Fielding.
Available Now

Fielding Returns from Sri Lanka and Heads to Azerbaijan and Australia Details

Dr. Lackney criss-crosses land to lead design efforts on behalf of FNI – Details

Nair’s Latest trip covers 5 Australian States, Thailand and Singapore Details

Nair Returns from Planning & Design Consultation Workshops in 4 Australian States and Singapore Details

Nair in Australia – Nair to Keynote Australian Conference in April 2005. Details

Fielding in Singapore and Australia Details

Nair in Alaska Details

Fielding at NAF – Randy Fielding addresses National Audience at NAF Conference in New York. Details

Better Schools for Ohio – State of Ohio hires FNI to conduct detailed study of school designs. Details

FNI Wins MacConnell Award – Reece School in Tasmania Australia by FNI is MacConnell Award winner! Details

Accolades for Prakash Nair 

"Thank you Prakash…your conversation with the Premier was quite inspirational…the students watching from their classrooms were ‘blown away’ and can’t wait to meet you.”
Sheree Vertigan
Principal, Reece Community School
Devenport, Tasmania, Australia

"You are a key to Pathways. It was you who gave Pathways its identity. Your contribution and help can never fade. You are, and shall always be, a very active member of the ‘think-tank’ of the school. We fully acknowledge and greatly appreciate your association and contributions at all stages. Believe me, you have built a long list here of your followers and admirers. "
Prabhat Jain
Co-Sponsor and Developer
Pathways World School
New Delhi, India

“Thank you for your thoughtful and insightful commentary and for continuing to  demonstrate leadership by helping to mobilize people to tackle tough questions.”  
Ross Danis
Director, Education Program
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
New Jersey 

“The response to the (Freemantle) conference has been very positive from all delegates and many singled out your Thursday session as one of the highlights. Once again you have left a lasting impression on our educators, parents and architects, so you know you are welcome at any time. Everyone enjoys listening to you and journeying into the future you describe so well.”
Jeff Phillips
Western Australia Department of Education

"I know you will continue to make an enormous contribution to contemporary education and leading change globally in this most important of areas. An exciting and challenging time."
Timothy Gourlay
Department of Education
Tasmania, Australia

“Your perspective and expertise were a fantastic contribution to the panel, and really engaged our network in thinking in new ways about implementing small learning communities. I heard participants talking about your ideas well after the panel’s conclusion, and so hope you know you really made an impact on the teachers, administrators, and business partners that were in attendance. Thank you so much for participating.”
Eleanor Helm
National Academy Foundation
New York

"Based upon several recent and long term connections with Prakash Nair, I think his ideas, his ability to express them, and his positive influence on the international Education & Educational Facilities communities are “leading-edge”. They are sure to meet the future needs of our students and teachers."
Ed Kirkbride
CEFPI 2002 Planner of the Year
Principal, Kirkbride Associates, PA

"Just a personal note to thank you for everything this week – you have certainly been the inspiration and the catalyst needed to start our redevelopment process. Monday was a terrific start – we just wish you had been able to spend longer with us. Everyone found your keynote address at Tuesday’s conference fantastic. "
Judy Bennett
Principal, Ogilvie High School
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia


 Accolades for Randall Fielding 

"Your vision is alive and serving children. I don’t know how you can sit in Minnesota and not stop what you are doing and fly right down…Please pinch yourself for me, you aren’t dreaming, your client is ecstatic!"
Todd Miller
President, Yeshiva Elementary
Milwaukee, WI

"Randy, you are amazing! This drawing looks great. I was so excited to see this I nearly jumped out of my chair. You put a face on my visions and that shifts this whole thing to a new gear. "
Chris Hazleton
Director, Harbor City International School
Duluth, MN

"As a public school facility planner, I need to tell you that I find designshare to be the single most valuable resource available to me in any medium. The depth, breadth, and quality of the articles and links never ceases to amaze me."
Robert Matschulat
Facilities Planning Specialist, Jefferson County Schools
Colorado

    "The architect [Fielding], a national innovator in school design, softened the mass by breaking up the new addition into zigzag bays…With its generous windows and rhythmic angularity, the addition is jazzy in a gentle, street-friendly way. And, in contrast to all those retro buildings with faux-historical references, this one reflects its own time and place…
     Now, let the users weigh in. ‘It’s a child’s dream,’ says . Perel Wachsman, a teacher. ‘A teacher’s, too,’ says one of her colleagues, Gila Saltzman. ‘The kids like the playground so much we can’t get rid of them at the end of the day!’ Rabbi Naftali Kalter, Yeshiva’s principal, says the sunny setting ‘puts everyone in a good mood. They’re more happy, yet more serious about learning.’
     In the play area below, little boys in yarmulkes tumble down a curvy, bright blue slide, shrieking with delight.
     A lot of architects would kill for raves like that."
Whitney Gould
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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