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On View> Edgeless School at the Center for Architecture

East | Monday, December 10, 2012 | The Editors.

Floating desks are part of the exhibition at the Center for Architecture. (Juliana Barton / Courtesy Center for Architecture)

Edgeless School: Design for Learning
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
Through January 19, 2013

Edgeless School investigates how technology is changing education and how architecture itself is changing as a result. The exhibition takes a look at 19 newly completed schools throughout the country (eight are in New York City and the majority of the rest are in the Pacific Northwest) and sorts them by their degree of “edgelessness.” The Ethical Culture Fieldston Middle School in the Bronx, for example, softens the distinction between the built environment and nature by embracing outdoor space and using a connection with nature as an educational tool. The L.B. Landry High School in New Orleans, LA, on the other hand, blurs conventional distinctions between constituencies by encouraging students, educators, parents, and architects to work together to create a building that is designed to further the school’s pedagogical goals.

: Floating desks are part of the exhibition at the Center for Architecture. (Juliana Barton / Courtesy Center for Architecture)

: Stephen Gaylor School, New York, NY, 2006 by Rogers Marvel Architects. (David Sundberg/Esto)

: St. Philips Academy, Newark, NJ, 2007 by Gensler. (Michael Moran)

: St. Albans School, Marriott Hall, Washington, DC, 2009 by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. (Robert Polidori)

: The exhibit at the Center for Architecture. (Courtesy Center for Architecture)

: Avenues, The World School, New York, NY, 2012 by Perkins Eastman. (Bonetti/Kozerski Studio)

: Blue Valley South West High School, Overland Park, KS, 2010 by Perkins+Will. (James Steinkamp)

: Rodeph Sholom School, Oakland, NJ, 2011 by WXY Architecture + Urban Design. (Albert Vecerka/Esto)

: Ramon C. Cortinas School, Los Angeles, CA, 2008 by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. (Duccio Malagamba)

: The East Harlem School, New York, NY, 2008 by Peter Gluck and Parnters. (Erik Freeland)

: New Settlement Community Campus, Bronx, NY, 2012 by Dattner Architects in association with Edelman Sultan Knox Wood/Architects. (David Sundberg/Esto)