Safety, flexibility and accessibility: school architecture has become a building task for owners and architects requiring detailed knowledge beyond pedagogy and structural design. In fact, the architectural perception of children and youth has historically been strongly influenced by places of learning and teaching. On the other hand, in the era of digitalization, whether such places are relevant any more for the transfer of knowledge is an open question. This manual takes an architectural view of School Buildings. The authors discuss building typologies, organizational models and development trends. In doing so, more than 30 international school buildings with detailed drawings and photographs are presented. Ten design parameters round off the planning aid for the successful construction of schools in the 21st century. With contributions by Natascha Meuser, Hans Wolfgang Hoffmann, Thomas Müller and Jochem Schneider.

Natascha Meuser, born 1967, architect and interior architect. Studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and the University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim. From 2000 to 2005 she was research assistant at the Berlin Technical University. Architecture firm with international projects and publishing business.