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   With room for 55 children between 0 and 3 years of age, this early-education center in Llubí, a town in the comarca of Llano de Mallorca, becomes after school hours a multipurpose space for the community at large to use, thanks to mobile panels that

MGM Arquitectos José Morales Sara de Giles Rocío Casado   Spain   Located within the complex of the Colegio Bienaventurada Virgen María de las Irlandesas – designed in 1964 by the Sevillian brothers Fernando and Joaquín Barquín y Barón –, the project foresaw the construction of a kindergarten, as well as solving

Adjaye Associates   Ghana   The recently refurbished gardens of the cemetery of Osu, a busy neighborhood east of the central district of Accra, is the site of the project for the new National Cathedral of Ghana. It will complete a ceremonial and scenic route through Osu Cemeter

Ander Bados Sesma Betsaida Curto Reyes   Peru   Shortlisted for the 2022 International FAD Awards, this work is an extension of the Villa Magisterial school in the district of Cerro Colorado, in Arequipa Province. The jury considered its attention to dignity in an environment of scarcity, its capa

bxd arquitectura    Spain   This pre-school – for the 0–3 age group – rises on a 32x39-meter plot in a new growth area of El Vendrell, a municipality in Tarragona province. A work bxd arquitectura —Francesc Buixeda, Maria Barcina y Javier Ivorra—, the building presents classroo

Daaz Office   Iran   A project of the NGO Iran-e-Man, this educational center for children is also a gathering and learning place for people of the Iranian village of Seyed-Bar. The budget was limited but the villagers took part both physically and financially in realizi

SUMO arquitectes   Spain   The Catalan firm SUMO arquitectes – Marc Camallonga, Jordi Pagès, Pasqual Bendicho – renovated and enlarged this school in Barcelona, organized in three volumes and combining concrete and wood. The 1950s building has undergone a thorough revamp. The

Gradolí & Sanz arquitectes   Spain   The building lies on the edge of the Valterna residential area, on a stretch of land located between the dwellings and the En Dolça ravine, which separates Valterna from the expansion area of La Pinada, of the same property as the school. The first d

Pareid   Thailand   The project addresses three principles: use of construction techniques and industrial materials that can be executed with traditional methods; flexibility in the program to provide functionality, play, and aesthetics; and climatic sensitivity.

Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   On the outskirts of the city, a building provides new spaces for classes and meetings to be shared by a prestigious ‘gymnasium’ and the historical choir school of the cathedral of Cologne. The new educational facilities make use of the formal and mat

SAM architecture   France   With room for 360 children, the school complex built by Paris-based SAM Architecture is located in a neighborhood designed for railway workers in the 1970s, in the Epine district south of Hellemmes. It is also to serve as a public facility, with func

Caruso St John Architects   Switzerland   The project to transform these old barracks in Zurich into two new schools offers an opportunity to give the monument, its open spaces, and its rooms a new use, and to see this major building in a different way: as if it were a house within a garden.

Open Architecture   China   The firm headed by Li Hu and Huang Wenjing, Open Architecture, working from offices in New York and Beijing, has designed a campus for the Qingpu Pinghe International School in Shanghai, which has students aged 4 through 18. One of the buildings, the

Equipo Sarrablo   Spain   The three terraced levels have a porch and a courtyard. The main elevation is a ceramic fabric reinforced with steel that makes it adaptable to three different functions: latticework, ventilated facade, and plinth with concrete panels...

Sarquella + Torres Arquitectes   Thailand   A modular structure that draws inspiration from traditional constructions in the Thai countryside harbors a preschool which the community at large participated in raising. Crowned with solar chimneys to guarantee natural ventilation and ensure a high

COBE Architects   Denmark   Designed to take in 750 children in the heart of Copenhagen, the school is envisioned as a city in itself, with its own neighborhoods, squares, parks, houses, and public buildings. Involving a combination of types and solutions, diverse and fun, the

MAD Architects   China   A chromatic roof is the highlight in the conversion of a traditional siheyuan courtyard into a preschool center that is remarkable, too, in its openness to daylight and vegetation. The principal strategy of the project involved wrapping the preexisti

Aires Mateus   Portugal   This new school complex is located in a low-density neighborhood on the outskirts of a small town by the Tagus River. The shape of the volume is determined by two essential factors: the functional requirements of the program and the anonymous urban c

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   The Germina Foundation is a non-profit institution dedicated to integration and complementary learning experiences for children at risk of social exclusion. Since its creation in the year 2004, the institution has grown and extended its activity, and

Emac Arquitectura   Spain   The firm Emac -- acronym for Mediterranean space for contemporary architecture and headed by Miguel Martínez Castillejo and Pau Batalla Soriano -- in ad hoc union with the architecture and engineering company Octógono Castellón has won the competitio

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   Two wings of classrooms plus a central volume with common functions and the sports hall together form an open courtyard to the south. The main entrance at the corner opens up to an atrium that offers visual connections with the whole center...

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

Eugène Beaudouin   Marcel Lods   Built six years after Duiker’s Open-Air School in Amsterdam, the school in Suresnes likewise grew from the idea that learning and working should really take place in the open air, but took this principle a stage further…

Johannes Duiker   Bernard Bijvoet   There is a story that Duiker could only get permission to build his Open-Air School on a site that was largely hidden from view by buildings, so that it would not clash too much with its surroundings in this well-too neighbourhood. Whatever Duiker hi

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