The latest instalment of our series of AR Reading Lists: seven carefully chosen pieces from our archive, free for registered users
Across the globe, this week students will begin their return to school. In many countries, this will be the first time pupils step inside their school after many months of restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic. For some, school may be beginning, but in an entirely new and unknown way, as lecture halls remain closed and seminars are relayed through the pixels of a screen. Architecture schools, which often revolve around a busy and thriving studio, will be designing and testing new ways to educate and collaborate. The seven selected pieces below celebrate the buildings we learn in and the vital importance of education, from Senegal and rural Brazil to Lima and Beijing.
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Full circle: Fass School in Senegal by Toshiko Mori Architect, Chérif Tall, AR April 2020
‘Young pupils and their teachers arrive and find refuge in the soft shade of the bamboo and grass ceilings’
Boarding planes: student housing, Fazenda Canuanã, Formoso do Araguaia, Brazil by Aleph Zero + Rosenbaum, Hugo Segawa, AR October 2019
‘Boarding schools are places to promote the fight against inequalities, in search of social justice, to unfold the horizons of rural children’
Manplan 4, Education: Nurseries, AR January 1970
The transition from home to the nursery school should, ideally, be almost imperceptable’
UTEC in Lima, Peru by Grafton Architects, Frederick Cooper-Llosa, AR June 2015
‘The complex interplay between the structural and functional elements of the building creates an enticing educational atmosphere inside’
Typology: Universities, Tom Wilkinson, AR October 2015
‘The long march of neoliberalism through the institutions conquers the final refuge of a declining humanism’
Tsinghua Architecture School extension in Beijing, China by Li Xiaodong Atelier, Austin Williams, AR September 2017
‘Li Xiaodong describes the building as “all corridors with no sense of an identity as an architecture school”’
11 things to know before starting architecture school, Phineas Harper, August 2013
‘Power nap with caution. You’ll see students making beds beneath their desks in studio or going 80 hours without sleep’
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