Buzzo Spinelli Architecture   France   Nestled in the heart of the citadel of Bonifacio, in the southern French island of Corsica, this daycare is part of the former Montaur military district. Amid stone towers, the educational facilities rise with a concrete material that incorporates ag

MAPAA Duque Motta & AA   Chile   In southern Chile's Malleco Province, specifically in the commune named Los Sauces, stands this building that is part of the education ministry's drive to build eight small schools in Araucanía Region, where a high percentage of the population is Map

Barclay & Crousse Arquitectos   Peru   Resulting from a two-phase competition, the commission calls for the reconstruction of the school in multiple phases and on the same plot occupied by the old and now obsolete building, dating from the 1950s.

LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   In the German municipality of Allensbach, near Konstanz, the Hegne convent complex includes the Marianum secondary school, where a new annex was needed to accommodate additional facilities. The new building, 109 meters long and about 12 wide, directl

Magén Arquitectos   Spain   The new Kindergarten and Elementary School is located in the Parque Venecia residential area, southeast of Zaragoza. The different types of buildings around it – a police station and a grocery store –, the absence of urban references, and the periphe

TAO | Trace Architecture Office   China   The intersection of curves and straight lines in the brightly colored volumes creates a playful atmosphere at this school in the city of Haikou, located north of Hainan Island. Situate on a sloping site, the new construction seeks, through its forms,

Rozana Montiel | Estudio de Arquitectura   Mexico   As part of a plan instigated by the regional government, a social center serving citizens of limited means and resources has opened in one of the most conflictive areas of the capital…

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Netherlands   The modular wood system developed by Circlewood – a collective of architects, engineers, builders, and researchers headed by OMA/David Gianotten – came about as a response to the City of Amsterdam’s Innovation Partnership School Buildings program of

SUMO Arquitectes MIM-A Arquitectes   Spain   This new-build school is located in a densely populated area in the Torrassa neighborhood of Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), occupying a very compact rectangular plot surrounded by homes set between party walls and very narrow streets. With a

Gonzalo Mardones    Chile   A set of basic volumes that are easily recognizable to the children is oriented towards an arcaded courtyard in order to guarantee a learning environment free of external distractions. The exposed structure and the insigne pine wood finishes have the

Diana Kellogg Architects   India   Within the GYAAN Center, designed by the New York architect Diana Kellogg, stands this school built with local sandstone that welcomes more than 400 girls from families living below the poverty line, in a region where female literacy barely reaches 3

JEJU.studio   Tanzania   The Polish firm Jeju Studio, led by Iwo Borkowicz and Adam Siemaskiewicz, was commissioned by the Wayair Foundation to build a preschool and primary school in the refugee settlement of Ulyankulu, in western Tanzania. The inhabitants of Ulyankulu fled

Sauerbruch Hutton   Germany   Berlin metropolitan School is housed in a pair of existing Plattenbau, or prefabricated, structures from the GDR era that were erected in 1987. Three building wings form part of a block and create a generous, protected school yard. The project extend

Aulets Aixopluc   Spain   Drawing inspiration from Mediterranean monasteries, this education center for the 3-8 age range is organized around an inner courtyard. Establishing a dialogue between nature and architecture, the first phase of the project presents exterior and inte

Rafael Moneo   United States   Located on the historic College Hill, the RISD campus is scattered, which underscores the quality of the buildings while boosting urban life. The plot for Chace Center was located in the area around Memorial Hall, where the domestic character of Bene

Lluís Jubert - Taller d’Arquitectura Ferran Pelegrina i Associats    Spain   The project is located in La Joncosa del Montmell, in the comarca of Baix Penedés, where the old vineyards come together on the interior slopes of the massif that lends its name to the municipality. At the end of a pleasant promenade from the town c

E2A   Switzerland   Europaallee is by far the largest real estate development in the heart of Zurich and lies just beyond the main train station. The site is the final of eight new constructions and is directly adjacent to the multicultural – and rather infamous – distr

Juan Salamanca Balen - SALBA estudio   Colombia   Located 20 kilometers to the north of the municipality of Uribia, in Colombia’s La Guajira department, this school for the indigenous Wayuu community is immersed in a desert landscape. The project seeks to reflect the pillars of the organization behi

Peñín Arquitectos   Spain   The Valencian practice of Alberto Peñín has built this public school for the kindergarten, primary, and secondary levels in Fuente Encarroz, a small town in the comarca of Safor, 6 kilometers from Gandía. The program is spread on plan on a large site

Alberto Campo Baeza   Armenia   (Descriptive text by Estudio Campo Baeza) CONTEMPLATING MOUNT ARARAT Can you imagine the emotion of an architect when he is commissioned to build a building in front of the Ararat mountain? In front of the mountain where Noah’s Ark ran aground! In fr

HEMAA Architectes Hesters-Oyon Architectes   France   With the Seine Valley as backdrop, the new school of Heudobouville – a village in France's Upper Normandy region – harnesses materials used in the buildings around: the slate of the nearby bell tower and…

Colectivo C733    Mexico   In the city of Nacajuca, in the Mexican state of Tabasco, stands the House of Music designed by Colectivo 733 (Gabriela Carrillo, Eric Valdez, Israel Espín, José Amozurrutia, Carlos Gacio). The community center reuses the foundations of a previous bu

Aulets Aixopluc   Spain   Llubí is a small town in the center of Mallorca, 40 kilometers from the island’s capital. Its benign climate and isolated geography have allowed a local architecture based on marés, a sandstone that has its geological origin in the seabed that shaped

In education, too, there have been classes. While the great universities born out of medieval enlightenment took up large and sometimes luxurious buildings, primary education practically remained restricted to the domestic scale – to small classrooms

Para hacer prosperar las áreas con menos recursos de la Ciudad de México, el gobierno regional ha puesto en marcha una red de centros educativos para personas analfabetas o que han abandonado los estudios. En el de la colonia Presidentes, una de las

Commissioned by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the non-profit organization American Friends of Le Korsa (AFLK), the New York-based architect Toshiko Mori has raised a school for children aged 5 to 10 in the remote Senegalese town of Fass. A

Along with museums, opera houses, and national assemblies, a specifically modern type of architecture that developed in the course of the 19th century was the center for teaching and learning. First were the universities, which were updated to serve

Directed by Miguel Martínez and Pau Batalla, the firm Emac – an acronym for Mediterranean space for contemporary architecture – carried the day in the ideas competition for a preschool and primary school situated in La Pobla Llarga, a municipality in

Based in Palma de Mallorca, the young studio TEd’A arquitectes – headed by Jaume Mayol and Irene Pérez, recent recipient of the FAD Award for Interiors – has finished a school in the small Swiss locality of Orsonnens, fifty kilometers from Bern. The

Among Spain’s young practices right now, Barozzi Veiga is one of those most present in the international spotlight, and it has just wrapped up a music school in Brunico, a town in Italy’s South Tyrol region. Respect for the urban fabric, with its con

Juana Salcedo   Giancarlo Mazzanti   The multipurpose nature of these facilities enhances their social dimension: Marinilla Park is a street, a garden, and an educational building; and Pinch Center is a playground and urban lookout. Projects like Timayui Social Garden or Pies Descalzos

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The architectures of childhood bring us back to the childhood of architecture. If building for children, spaces are shaped with an essential vocabulary of materials, forms and colors; if the works go up in precarious environments, the discipline of e

Escuela Burntwood Awarded yearly by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to a work built by a British architect or studio within the European Union, the Stirling Prize is presented to “the architects of the building that has made the grea

En Albolote, un pueblo de la Vega de Granada, se levantan los volúmenes blancos y abstractos de la nueva escuela infantil de la localidad (ver AV Monografías 147-148), un edificio diseñado por el granadino Alejandro Muñoz Miranda. El programa se dist

Inspirado en la dualidad existente entre el mundo de los adultos y el de los niños que describe la célebre novela de Lewis Carroll, el proyecto para una escuela infantil en Alcorcón (ver AV Monografías 147-148), diseñado por los madrileños María Jos

En Jiading, un suburbio situado al norte de Shanghái, el estudio local Atelier Deshaus —liderado por Liu Yichun y Chen Yifeng— ha construido la primera de las quince escuelas infantiles que la Administración ha encargado para dar respuesta al crecimi

Un tapiz verde de césped artificial cubre el nuevo Centro de Educación Infantil y Primaria de Roldán, una pedanía del municipio de Torre Pacheco situada cerca de Cartagena. Resultado de un concurso celebrado en 2008 y ganado por el murciano Estudio H

Concebido como una topografía artificial que se inserta en el paisaje, el proyecto para la nueva escuela primaria de Asminderoed, Dinamarca, diseñada por la oficina de Bjarke Ingels, se adapta a las suaves pendientes del entorno natural en que se sit

En el barrio de Brixton, considerado la capital no oficial de la comunidad afrocaribeña de Londres, Zaha Hadid ha terminado su primera obra en Inglaterra, el instituto Evelyn Grace, una escuela de secundaria integrada en el programa ARK Schools de pr

En el paseo Echegaray y Caballero de la capital maña, dentro del parque fluvial de San Pablo, se ha inau­gurado la Escuela Infantil Casco Histórico, de la que son autores Santiago Carroquino, Ignacio Grávalos y Patrizia Di Monte. Con capacidad para 7

Clara Eslava   Como muestra Bertrand Tavernier en la película Ça commence aujourd’hui, la escuela ya no es sólo el lugar para la alfabetización sino para la formación del niño en el sentido más amplio y para la interacción social; interacción demandada por los camb

Francesco Tonucci   Actualmente nadie duda de que el periodo más importante de la vida de cualquier hombre o mujer son sus primeros días, sus primeros meses y sus primeros años. Antes de entrar en un aula escolar a los seis años, el niño ha de­sarrollado la mayor parte

Mark Dudek   La historia de la educación infantil (escolar y preescolar) es larga y compleja. Hasta hoy los más importantes pedagogos continúan el debate sobre la originalidad y primacía de sus respectivas doctrinas. Si se consideran las ideas radicales como el f

Luis Fernández-Galiano   If our society must regenerate itself, it should start with childhood. The demoralization caused by the corruption of elites, the degradation of masses and the global collapse of good government – what they now call governance – can only be tackled f

Herman Hertzberger   Schools are still being built today along the old lines of a row of classrooms along a corridor with coat-pegs and the occasional ‘work-corners’. There are often external reasons for such a plan, and the classrooms themselves may be well-designed and

Herman Hertzberger   The classrooms of this school are conceived as autonomous units, little homes situated along the school hall, as a communal street. The teacher, ‘mother’, of each house decides, together with the children, what the place will look like, and what atmo

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