Some 80 earthquake specialists, architects, engineers and civil servants from a dozen countries met to discuss the different relationships which may occur between educational facilities and natural disasters; the emphasis was on the implications and effects of earthquakes and the appropriate...

Describing primary schools in a small city in Portugal is an opportunity for an overall look at the evolution of schools in general as special public buildings. A look at four of the six primary schools in the city of Caldas da Rainha shows how these public buildings have evolved, what they...

Open plan schools have been largely contested in Portugal; many teachers, administrators and even parents consider this model of schooling inappropriate and therefore a failure. Recently however the Escola da Ponte, one of the open plan schools that has survived, was recognised as one of the...

City and Islington College, in the heart of London, was formed in 1993 through the amalgamation of a range of local institutions, including a sixth form college (offering mainstream academic courses leading to national qualifications and university), two colleges of general further education and...

Presented here are Australian case studies of educational buildings with environmentally sustainable designs – an upper secondary school complex and a university learning centre – and sustainability initiatives by a private developer working in collaboration with government authorities.

Le 26 février à Lisbonne, une équipe du Centre pour des environnements pédagogiques efficaces (CELE) de l’OCDE a présenté sa première évaluation d’un programme national de construction d’écoles…

CELE has carried out its first review of a national school building programme, which aims to tackle the physical deterioration of the building stock, poor environmental standards in terms of energy performance...

Voici des exemples d’études de cas australiennes sur des bâtiments scolaires de conception écologique - un complexe éducatif d’enseignement secondaire et un centre universitaire de formation – et des projets d’aménagement écologiquements viables de promoteurs privés, menés en...

L’étude des écoles primaires d’une petite ville portugaise offre, plus largement, un aperçu de l’évolution des établissements scolaires en général. Ces bâtiments publics présentent en effet de nombreuses spécificités. L’observation de quatre des six écoles primaires de la...

<i>Plus de 80 personnes – des sismologues, des architectes, des ingénieurs et des fonctionnaires – originaires d’une douzaine de pays se sont réunis pour examiner les différentes relations qui peuvent s’établir entre les équipements éducatifs et les catastrophes naturelles ; deux...</i>