The kindergarten is both a place and a tool: each space can be interpreted as an opportunity for experiment, knowledge-building and self-learning for children, a laboratory stimulating and supporting various journeys of development. The qualities and characteristics of a kindergarten - the design choices, the space layout, and the tools should derive from the image of the child that belongs to a community and to the environment (which we take to be the total of spatial and sensory qualities including architecture itself, furnishings, immaterial qualities of the spaces - colour, light, materials, acoustics). This book collects selected projects and provides a great opportunity to study and compare how the different designers face design topics that are crucial in children spaces. Colour photographs
