Pivoteck   The pivot doors supplied by the company PIVOTECK are highsafety thanks to metal fittings and anti-pinch edges, which make them particularly recommendable in kindergartens and grade schools.

Article 25   Niger   Niger’s education system faces huge challenges. The African country currently has the highest birth rate in the world (seven children born to every woman on average), and simultaneously struggles to keep young people in the classroom, particularly be

Palenzuela Taller de Arquitectura   Spain   The idea was to free up space in the Europa school’s original building, which was completed in 1972 as part of the P.U.A., an Andalusian plan for educational centers characterized by rhomboidal floor plans. The old construction would take in the elem

Alberto Campo Baeza   Armenia   The building stands in front of mounts Ararat and Aragats like a white box on a plinth. The program is distributed vertically, reserving the outdoor floor and the podium for large public events and the intermediate levels for the classrooms...

Virseda-Vila Arquitectos Miguel Ángel Cámara Miguel Fernández Rueda   Spain   Located in downtown Logroño, this public secondary school was thoroughly revaped to create sports facilities, exhibition halls, an auditorium, and a multipurpose classroom that all citizens would have access to. The original building was characterize

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.

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,

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

AFF architekten   Germany   This bilingual (German-Russian) school was built over twenty years ago in a residential area of Karlshorst, surrounded by small-scale buildings. The enlargement planned by the Berlin firm AFF architekten connects old and new, giving continuity to the

Aixopluc Aulets   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

Coll-Leclerc   Spain   On the south border of Sant Fruitós, a municipality of the Catalonian comarca of Bages, this school rises on the north part of the plot, facing the avenue Sant Joan. The complex tries to concentrate its facilities along that side, including the preex

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

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation   Spain   The design of Reggio School is based on the idea that architectural environments can arouse in children a desire for exploration and inquiry. The building is thought of as a complex ecosystem that makes it possible for students to direct their own ed

E2A   Switzerland   The Hofacker school grounds, in the Hirslanden district of Zurich, consist of the school building with a gymnasium by Friedrich Wehrli, built in 1898, and a second gymnasium wing from 1938, by city architect Hermann Herter. These two existing school

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation   Spain   Office for Political Innovation is the name of the international architectural practice founded by Andrés Jaque – recently appointed Dean of Columbia GSAPP – in 2003. The studio, based in Madrid and New York, works at the intersection of design, rese

Barceló Balanzó Arquitectes Sulkin Marchissio   Spain   At the boundary between the residential and industrial areas of Vilablareix, a municipality in the eastern Catalonian comarca of Girónés, stands this educational center. A compact volume aligned with the street Marie Curie optimizes the orientation o

Picharchitects/Pich-Aguilera   Spain   In 1889 Antoni Gaudí was commissioned to build a school pavilion in Barcelona for the Teresian Religious Community of Ganduxer. Over the years …

Aixopluc Aulets   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

TEd’A arquitectes   Spain   To reduce the project to a domestic scale, the program is divided into several sequenced spaces that go from the collective to the private. Local resources are combined with strategies aimed at making the building work on its own...

Kéré Architecture   Senegal   For the very first time in the history of the prestigious German institution, one of its centers scattered all over the world will occupy a building expressly designed for the purpose. Rising behind a wall that keeps out traffic noise, the building e

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

Oliver Wainwright   Andrés Jaque has on the outskirts of Madrid broken ground in school architecture and given tangible form to an innovative pedagogical method.

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Pupils asked for a building without walls that was like a garden and a spaceship. The dazzling result, housed within a living skin for insects and fungi, is one of the most inventive schools ever built. "It looks like a robot made of butter,” was one

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

Un exterior rotundo, duro y compacto, en vivo contraste con la variedad de los espacios interiores —con las aulas dispuestas en forma de peine hacia el interior y el espacio libre fragmentado conformando numerosos patios— es la imagen que ofrece el i

Una pila de cajas de vidrio de diferentes alturas, rodeadas de cerchas trianguladas de acero, define la ampliación proyectada por el arquitecto suizo Christian Kerez para un complejo escolar en Leutschenbach, a las afueras de Zúrich. El proyecto trat

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

The Design Institute of Landscape and Architecture China Academy of Art has in the countryside renovated an education center in the image of a village, with stacked volumes combining prefabricated elements, pitched roofs, and transparencies and color