It sounds like architects are now required to read Heidegger. Yuck.

The architect is right about one thing. She says,

There are many studies conducted world wide that have studied the impact of the built environment on human performance, including school designs and how it influences the student performance.

This is true – and those studies suggest that school designs have a negligible effect on student achievement. I discuss a few of those studies in this policy report. As you point out, student achievement depends much more on the quality of the classroom teacher than the design of the school building.