La escuela para la democracia, arquitectura escolar y II República en Bilbao

Abstract

With the constitution of II Spanish Republic the State understood that education was essential to lay down democracy, and consequently it undertook improvements in education that also influenced in the way school architecture was conceived according to services of a greater social importance and spaces related to more active pedagogical ideas. The result of this educative policy in Bilbao was the construction of a municipal school group that gave form to a new way to understand school, according to an equally modern architecture, that pointed out the model followed by other initiatives.