NOLS Mexico Branch Ten Years Later

The mission of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) is “to be the leading source and teacher of wilderness skills and leadership that serve people and the environment.” When Taylor Galyean set out to design a set of structures for the NOLS Mexico Branch on Baja California, his goal was to embody that mission in the facility. We first wrote about Galyean’s designs—his thesis for a master’s degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—a decade ago, in EBN Vol. 4, No. 5. At that time, most of his plans were still on paper. Having written in 1995 that “full implementation of the plan is expected to take about ten years,” we decided to check in with NOLS and Galyean to find out where, and if, things stand.
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