Prakash Nair

Prakash Nair is an American school architect, entrepreneur, writer and public speaker who advocates for open classrooms in schools.

Nair is a co-founder and a former president of Fielding Nair International (FNI), and a founding president of Education Design International (EDI). His teams designed or redesigned public and private schools and colleges across the globe. Some of those projects wonindustry design awards for excellence, including the James D. MacConnell Award — the highest award conferred by the Association for Learning Environments, A4LE — forDr. Phinnize J. Fisher Middle School in Greenville, South Carolina (2015) and for theReece High School in Tasmania, Australia (2003).

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.

• Nair, Prakash (October 1, 2014). Blueprint for Tomorrow: Redesigning Schools for Student-Centered Learning. Harvard Education Press. ISBN 978-1612507040.
• Prakash Nair; Roni Zimmer Doctori; Richard F. Elmore (April 15, 2019). Learning by Design: Live Play Engage Create. Education Design Architects. ISBN 978-0976267065.
• Prakash Nair; Randall Fielding (September 30, 2009). The Language of School Design: Design Patterns for 21st Century Schools (3rd ed.). Designshare, Inc. ISBN 978-0976267003.