Discuss the merits of policies aimed at protecting listed buildings and the impact on those buildings. Relate to a specific example visited during Doors Open Days. The architectural layout of the buildings reflected the current thinking about health provision at that time. Architectural history is a discipline in its own right, and pertains to the study of building form as a social, artistic and political resource. Doors Open Days is an event that relates to standing buildings not usually accessible by the public.
Archaeology is, of course, very suited to the study of history in the school curriculum.
As already mentioned, much work has already been done on the subject of art and the built environment, but the built environment offers much more than an alternative to life drawing in the studio. Firstly, buildings are 3-dimensional objects with sculptural qualities that go past their mere functional or structural purposes. Design issues such as proportion, scale, the relationship of spaces or rooms, colour, texture and light are all evident in architecture, both old and new. Indeed, the relative importance of each gives important clues to the social and artistic priorities of the occupants, and their social status. As we hope we have demonstrated above, in each part of the curriculum, there are very real opportunities to use DOD to meet the needs of the classroom in an innovative and interesting manner.