The time of the school. The slow path of a new “Educational Architecture”

Abstract

The idea of ‘school’ has bound architecture and pedagogy in a single body and maintained the bond between designing a space for those who inhabit educational places daily and a precise training model reflecting the society of the time. Singularity and generality come together in a balance necessary for understanding differences among everyday needs. For this profound reason, school architecture is the most tangible opportunity to desire and imagine forms corresponding to a precise teaching model. It frankly interprets the multiple needs underlying this subject – slight nuances, different characterisations, unique slants, and controversial interpretations of a period in human life that encompasses the greatest changes in a short time. The difficult yet desired relationship between architecture and pedagogy, educational environment and thought is not new. Undoubtedly, the last twenty years have taken up with greater determination an issue that has long lain dormant under a convenient scapegoat: a regulation that since 1975 halted any utopian thrust.

Keywords

• spazio e apprendimento
• pedagogia
• scuola