Carlos Arniches and the architecture that teaches

Abstract

Carlos Arniches’s contribution to Spanish architecture for education had personal features unevenly reflected by scientific literature. The present study draws from one of the most intensive researches on this architect and his work, aiming to reflect the singularities and character of an «architecture as a tool to the service of education» that Arniches strove to give to the scholar building for the Instituto Escuela, how he tried to confer an educational character to his decisions as an architect.Historic and archival research produced documents of Arniches’s buildings, now evaluated to understand the length of the author’s challenge, as stated in pre-approvalreports. Starting from analysis supported by multimodal methods, it is sought to determine whether there are reasons to establish something like the «principles of an architecture to solve socio-educative dilemmas» in the education realm. If so, study will pursue to which measure, the subjacent intention, how do they materialize in architectural terms, and what their educational role may be, if any.

Keywords

• espacio arquitectónico
• espacio de aprendizaje
• recursos pedagógicos
• arquitectura escolar
• arquitectura moderna
• generación del 25.