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# Education architecture takes a left turn toward the future.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/education-architecture-takes-left-turn-toward-future/
- Published: 2012-06-11T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:00:05.000Z
- Description: Where does recess end and hookie begin? Architects and educators from Norway to Thailand are blurring the line between classroom and playground. Gestalten has recently published a book documenting the most wonderous examples. Our school grounds inspired lava monster and red rover–the next generatio
- Author: Kent Szlauderbach
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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Where does recess end and hookie begin? Architects and educators from Norway to Thailand are blurring the line between classroom and playground. Gestalten has recently published a book documenting the most wonderous examples. Our school grounds inspired lava monster and red rover–the next generation could become stages for imagining our favorite *Portal* puzzle.

> When they go to the playground, it’s not to play on a simple jungle gym, but to interact with objects and materials that create new and exciting discoveries each time they’re outside.  
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> [*Learn for Life: New Architecture for New Learning*](http://usshop.gestalten.com/catalog/product/view/id/4630?ref=killscreen.com) chronicles some of the most exciting of these projects, from an outdoor library in Germany to a park made of recycled materials from oil rigs.

\[via [Fast Company](http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679909/8-insane-schools-playgrounds-and-libraries-of-the-future?ref=killscreen.com#27)\]