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High Tech High Los Angeles by Berliner and AssociatesFormer Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) school board president Roberta Weintraub founded the High Tech High-Los Angeles (HTH-LA) Foundation four years ago to build the first Los Angeles charter school to train students for the high-tech information careers of the future.
From the school's conception, Los Angeles-based Berliner and Associates, Architecture (BAA) worked with Weintraub and the LAUSD faculty to develop an open, flexible, and user-friendly learning environment specifically tailored to the school's progressive curriculum.
HTH-LA sits on a one-acre parcel in an underutilized corner of LAUSD's 71-acre Birmingham High School in suburban Van Nuys.
Two vacant warehouses on the Birmingham campus, donated to the HTH-LA Foundation, were gutted, seismically strengthened, and blended into a 27,000-square-foot fluid, self-contained structure by the addition of a large, geometrically playful glass volume.
The new school, accessed through Birmingham High (with shared parking spaces), is designed for 325 students, and includes eight classrooms, a prototype lab, a commons / library and great room, teachers' and administrators' offices, two conference rooms, and garden spaces.
Modeled after leading-edge corporate research centers, the school is a marriage of the educational and
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