BUILDING CITIZENS: SCHOOL ARCHITECTURE AND ITS SOCIETAL PROGRAMME - COMPARATIVE VISIONS FROM 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY SWITZERLAND AND LUXEMBOURG

ABSTRACT The paper examines the hypothesis, that school buildings construct the future citizens of the nation-state. We specifically ask, how such national constructions play out in multilingual nation-states. With a special focus on the development of school architecture in a variety of regions including as major cases Luxembourg and Switzerland, the paper analyses school buildings as the spaces where the act of physically going to school takes place. As a dominant of the local scenery, schools were also actively involved in the presentation of spaces, displaying concepts of the nation or its... Mehr ...