ARCHI 3-4 2025 Modelli scolastici in evoluzione | Evolving school models

The recent wave of school architecture production and renewal in Ticino offers, both in quantity and quality, a useful lens through which to identify the signs of a possible tradition – one that might be linked to the «a great training ground» of Ticinese architects from the 1960s to 1980s, to borrow Bruno Reichlin’s eloquent expression. If the 2022 issue of Archi, «School Architecture in Ticino», already attempted to trace the points of continuity and discontinuity within this tradition – stretching from the 1950s to more recent works – while noting decisive shifts in its foundational principles and relationship with the broader architectural discourse, this issue seeks to explore the vitality of that tradition by comparing it with a geographically analogous one: the case of South Tyrol, a reference point in architectural criticism for its exemplary processes of rethinking the school expressed through architectural language.