AV 152: GLOBAL SCHOOL

Description

A school is walls and masters. Architecture and paedology 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 museum without walls which would use photography as a tool of access to beauty, Marshall Mc Luhan proposed a classroom without walls that would use the communication media as tools of access to knowledge, and both of them understood the absence of the walls as the representation of the transfer from the physical sphere to the virtual one. However, the immaterial world of images, media and networks excludes the emotional dimention of presence, and it is precisely the aesthetic shudder of proximity or the intellectual stimulus of the orality that establish the contact with the masterpiece or the schoolmaster. We can do without walls, but not without physical space where the relationship between master and disciple takes place. (by Luis Fernández-Galiano)

CONTENTS

Editorial

• Luis Fernández-Galiano: Master Walls
• Richard Ingersoll: The School Under the Oak Tree

Childhood  experiencies

• Giancarlo Mazzanti: Timayui Kindergarten, Santa Marta, Colombia
• Archivision Hirotani Studio: Leimondo Nursery, Nagahama, Japan
• Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter: Fagerborg Kindergarten, Oslo, Norway
• feld72 architekten: Elementary School in Terenten, Italy
• Pereda & Pérez: Elementary School in Pamplona, Spain
• Carroquino & Grávalos Di Monte: Elementary School in a Park, Zaragoza, Spain

Basic Teachings

• Bergen School of Architecture: Learning Center, Chimundo, Mozambique
• 2A+P/A, IaN+, ma0, Mario Cutuli: Maria Grazia Cutuli School, Herat, Afghanistan
• ARCò: School in the Desert, West Bank, Palestine
• Dominique Coulon & Associés: School Complex in La Courneuve, France
• Atelier Nuno Lacerda Lopes: School in Paredes, Portugal
• Coll & Leclerc: Sant Gregori School, Barcelona, Spain

Secondary Education

• Rudanko & Kankkunen: Sra Pou Training Center, Oudong, Cambodia
• Noero Wolff Architects: High School in Cape Town, South Africa
• Ateliers Lion: Charles de Gaulle School, Damascus, Syria
• Zaha Hadid Architects: Evelyn Grace Academy, London, UK
• Tank Architectes: Lévi-Strauss High School, Lille, France
• BFJ Arquitectos: Secondary School in Beja, Portugal

118 pages, color ills / 24 x 30 cm / Spanish, English