Prakash Nair
Prakash Nair is an American school architect, entrepreneur, writer, and public speaker.
Nair is the founding president and CEO of Education Design International and a former founding president of Fielding Nair International. Nair's projects have won industry design awards for excellence, including the James D. MacConnell Award — the highest award conferred by the Association for Learning Environments, A4LE — for Reece High School in Tasmania, Australia.
Nair has written about school design and co-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. His opinion on educational design issues has been sought by news media and by boards of education.