Classroom, Geschwister-Scholl Secondary School (1962)*

Artist/Designer: Hans Scharoun

Project Location: Germany

Figure 1: Geschwister-Scholl Secondary School. Digital Images. Available from Grschwister-Scholl-Gesamtscule Lunen. ( Source | Accessed : November 11, 2013 )

Figure 2: Geschwister-Scholl Secondary School. Digital Images. Available from Grschwister-Scholl-Gesamtscule Lunen. ( Source | Accessed : November 11, 2013 )

Figure 3: Geschwister-Scholl Secondary School. Digital Images. Available from Grschwister-Scholl-Gesamtscule Lunen. ( Source | Accessed : November 11, 2013 )

Figure 4: Geschwister-Scholl Secondary School. Digital Image. Available from fremde impulse. ( Source | Accessed : November 11, 2013 )

Figure 5: Geschwister-Scholl Secondary School. Digital Image. Available from fremde impulse. ( Source | Accessed : November 11, 2013 )

Figure 6: Geschwister-Scholl Secondary School. Source: Peter Blundell Jones, March 1975: Late Works of Scharoun. 2012, Digital Image. Available from The Architectural Review. ( Source | Accessed : November 11, 2013 )

Style/Period(s):
Modern

Primary Material(s):
Concrete

Function(s):
Classroom

Related Website(s):

School's Official Website | Accessed : February 3, 2018

Significant Date(s):
20th Century, 1958, 1962

Additional Information:
Project Description:
Scharoun built the Geschwister-Scholl Secondary School (1958-1962) as a space that enables successful socialization of children into productive citizens, a major concern for German educators in the post-War period. A long hallway running the length of the school is the lifeline that connects the separated wings for the elementary-, middle-, and high school classes, as well as various common spaces into one community. Each classroom is meant to be a home for a class and its teacher, with enough space for flexible use, including large-group activities. The classrooms are situated to maximize interaction between students in adjoining classrooms. Each student is positioned in an environment that replicates an ideal society from the family-like single classroom, to a neighborhood-like group of classrooms, to the town-like entire school and, finally, the larger city outside school doors.

Publications/Texts in Print:

Graves, Ben E. School Ways: The Planning and Design of America’s Schools. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993.

Grosvenor, Ian, and Catherine Burke. School. London: Reaktion Books, Ltd., 2008.

Hille, Thomas R. Modern Schools: A Century of Design for Education. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

Significant dates:
1958-1962- Constructed
2010-2014 - Renovation

Building Address:
Städt. Geschwister-Scholl-Gesamtschule Lünen
Holtgrevenstr. 2-6, 44532 Lünen
Germany

Tags:
school, classroom, education design, germany, hans scharoun, human school architecture, german architecture

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