In this way it provides a solid foundation for starting this last year of high school, as it supports young adults in their own search for balancing inside and outside–inner life and outer reality, and provides a perfect keystone for centering many fields of study. By way of drawing, writing, hands-on projects, oral presentations, and discussion, students begin to see the built environment around them in an entirely new way. Field trips aid and deepen this process, for buildings are not just theoretical, they need to be experienced in three dimensions.