Kindergarten Architecture

This fully illustrated guide to the planning and design of pre-school facilities for children is supported by a broad range of case studies, drawn from around the world.

Foreword

vii

Peter Mortimore

Peter Blundell Jones

Preface and acknowledgements

ix

A note on methodology

x

Introduction

xi

An architectural framework for an educational discussion: conceptions and contradictions

Definitions

1

(5)

Playing within a secure world

6

(2)

An architecture for the imagination

8

(3)

Benefits of the recent growth of pre-school facilities

11

(1)

Gender issues

12

(1)

Unemployment, social deprivation and the television as pacifier

13

(2)

Demographic transformations: needs and benefits

15

(1)

The wider role of kindergartens and children in the city

16

(2)

Pre-school educational curricula

18

(2)

High/Scope

20

(4)

Mature systems

24

(1)

Summary

25

(5)

A selective history: aspects of children's culture and architecture for children

History and concepts

30

(10)

Childhood before child care: London

40

(3)

Educational thought from Rousseau to Froebel

43

(8)

Pedagogical drawing, Froebel and learning to see

51

(7)

Maria Montessori, Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolf Steiner

58

(7)

Summary

65

(6)

Meaning in contemporary kindergarten architecture

Didactic versus neutral

71

(1)

Metaphor

72

(5)

The organic

77

(3)

Late modernism

80

(7)

The modular nursery

87

(2)

Summary

89

(9)

Defining quality: characteristics of space within the kindergarten environment

Symbolic meanings

98

(5)

Entrance spaces and lobbies

103

(1)

Secret spaces: the house within the house, niches, corners and dens

103

(1)

Kitchens, storerooms, washrooms and lavatories

104

(7)

The body: water play, baths and pools

111

(2)

The external environment: gardens, fields, meadows

113

(2)

Art studios

115

(1)

Light and colour

116

(5)

Economy and cost

121

(5)

The `green' nursery school: orientation

126

(3)

Heating

129

(1)

Lighting

129

(4)

Summary

133

(6)

The Projects

Introduction

139

(1)

Organic/metaphorical

Nant-y-Cwm Steiner Nursery, Llanycefn, Wales

140

(4)

Heddernheim-Nord `Kita', Frankfurt, Germany

144

(4)

Jardin de Ninos la Esperanza, Tijuana, Mexico

148

(4)

Børneinstitutioner, Amager, Copenhagen

152

(4)

Luginsland Kindergarten, Stuttgart, Germany

156

(3)

Bungawitta Children's Centre, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

159

(3)

Bornehaven De Fire Arstider, Copenhagen

162

(4)

Late modern

Corning Child Development Center, New York

166

(6)

UCLA Child Care Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

172

(4)

Eckenheim-Sud `Kita', Frankfurt, Germany

176

(3)

Greisheim-Sud `Kita', Frankfurt, Germany

179

(3)

Centre de Vie Enfantine, Lausanne, Switzerland

182

(4)

Stensby Personalbarnehage, Akerhus, Norway

186

(3)

Lutzowstrasse `Kita', Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany

189

(3)

Contextual

Gross-Ziethener Chausee `Kita', Berlin, Germany

192

(4)

Open-Air Kindergarten Annexe, Takarazuka, Japan

196

(4)

Scuola dell' Infanzia Diane, Reggio Emilia, Italy

200

(2)

Børnehus, Viborg Seminariet, Aarhuis, Denmark

202

(3)

Scuola dell' Infanzia e Asilo-nido Cantalamessa, Bologna, Italy

205

(3)

Neugereut Kindergarten, Stuttgart, Germany

208

(4)

Illustration acknowledgements

212

(1)

Index

213

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