Richard Ingersoll   As someone who makes a living from teaching, I occasionally have the apprehension, while watching my students fiddling with their laptops and cell phones during my lectures, that soon my role will be downsized by digital technologies. Most experts in

Luis Fernández-Galiano   A school is walls and masters. Architecture and pedagogy make up the school buildings, and we want to think that their importance is equivalent. It is not so: a school can do without walls, but not without masters.If André Malraux theorized about a m

El Equipo Mazzanti   Colombia   The project is part of the education program supported by the municipality of Santa Marta with the Fundación Carulla – an institution created in 1961 to promote the integral development of children. The program works to improve the conditions of chil

Archivision Hirotani Studio   Japan   The city of Nagahama is located in Honshu, the largest island in Japan, some 500 kilometers from Tokyo and next to Biwa Lake. The Leimondo Nursery is in a typical Japanese suburban area taken up by small wood houses and surrounded by a picturesque mo

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter - RRA   Norway   The increasing importance given to children’s education is evidenced in the case of this building by the fact that local authorities seeked a contemporary expression for the new kindergarten, and chose as site for its construction a small urban park

Feld72   Italy   In an idyllic environment such as that of the small town of Terento, in an alpine valley of the southern Tyrol region, it looks like all architectural works must respect their traditional context and choose vernacular, silent solutions. In this case,

Pereda Pérez Arquitectos   Spain   The value of the place was the determining factor when designing this elementary school. The plot became available after reorganizing the site, located on the edge of a peripheral neighborhood of Pamplona. Its almost triangular geometry is composed o

Ignacio Grávalos, Patrizia Di Monte, Santiago Carroquino   Spain   The density of Zaragoza’s historic center was one of the reasons why opening an elementary school in this area took so long, despite the growing demand for this kind of facility because of the increased birthrate and the growing number of women in th

Bergen School of Architecture   Mozambique   After several decades of foreign aid, Mozambique has become completely dependent on it. This generates an unfortunate balance between the expectations for help and the fact that this income has delayed the locals in launching their own initiatives. T

2A+P/A, Gianfranco Bombaci, IaN+, Mario Cutuli, Matteo Costanzo   Afghanistan   Building certain facilities in war zones raises issues such as the need to strengthen social ties through activities and spaces able to stimulate growth in the community. It is with this in mind that the Maria Grazia Foundation has promoted the const

Alberto Alcalde, Alessio Battistella, ARCò, Carmine Chiarelli, Diego Torriani, Luca Trabattoni, Valerio Marazzi   Palestine   The Abu Hindi Bedouin community is composed of two main camps, one south of Jerusalem and the other in the West Bank, besides several isolated smaller groups, which together make up a population of 2,700. One of these camps, located south of an Isra

Dominique Coulon & Associés   France   The episodes of civil unrest that have taken place in the peripheries of French cities, the last of which were the riots of 2005, have often been related to the urbanism of the second postwar and its housing blocks, which are occupied mostly by immig

Atelier Nuno Lacerda Lopes   Portugal   This education center, which includes a kindergarten and an elementary school, is located in the municipality of Paredes, in the northern Portuguese district of Porto. Its fifteen classrooms are laid out around the communal spaces to organize the cir

Coll-Leclerc   Spain   Sant Gregori school lies on the hillside of Collserola, on terraces carved out of the ground. Since it was built in 1972, it was necessary to carry out some refurbishments to adapt the building to the current codes regarding accessibility, evacuation

Zaha Hadid Architects   United Kingdom   La Academia Evelyn Grace sigue el principio pedagógico conocido como ‘colegios dentro de colegios’, que sugiere que los colegios de reducidas dimensiones contribuyen al aprendizaje de los alumnos, refuerzan la relación de éstos con el profesor, que c

Architects Rudanko Kankkunen   Cambodia   This vocational training center and community building is located in Oudong, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital. The main objective of this project was to encourage and teach poor families to earn their own living. The Sra Pou comm

Noero Wolff Architects   South Africa   Commissioned by the Provincial Government, this high school goes up in Khayelitsha, one of the largest informal settlements in South Africa, located on the outskirts of Cape Town. The population density in this area is very high, and its half a milli

Ateliers Lion Associés   Syria   The Charles de Gaulle School was conceived as a garden in which buildings rise, and where the spaces are as important as the structures. The transformation of this dry site of the Damascene district of Mezze into a lush garden aimed to have a meaning

Tank Architectes   France   The Lévi-Strauss school is settled in the heart of an urban growth district, in a residential area filled with old buildings and the port district of Lille, dotted with warehouses. The main building is settled on the urban boulevard, to which it open

BFJ Arquitectos, Franciso Amaral Pólvora, José Amaral Pólvora   Portugal   The refurbishment of this high school is an operation of assembly in which the new buildings not only rise side to side with old ones but also strengthen their use. Located in the Portuguese town of Beja, in the province of Bajo Alentejo, the project