In the design of Environments for Learning, architects, designers, and planners must take into account up and coming trends as well as the various issues that currently concern those who run educational facilities. Environments for Learning such as laboratories, schools, and universities, are changing to keep up with the demands of the high-tech, pressure-filled student lifestyle. Educational facilities not only need to be places of learning, but also function as havens of safety, community, and friendship.

In response to this, Environments for Learning are more than ever becoming comfortable, inviting, high-tech community centers. For planners and builders of Environments of Learning, the challenge is often to stay within the constraints of the budgets implemented by cities and school boards, while also creating buildings that meet the needs of teachers, students, and the surrounding community.