Repräsentativer Schulhausbau in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts - Zwei Beispiele aus der Stadt Luzern und der Stadt Zürich

In Switzerland, a variety of demographic, social, pedagogical, political, and economic changes led to an increased demand for schoolroom in the second half of the 19th century. The school system played a crucial role in this early phase of the young liberal federal state which became manifest in the construction of prestigious school buildings. The process of defortification and incorporation of villages into cities generated new public spaces for modern school buildings, which had one main purpose: to create well-educated citizens. This paper analyses these processes by examining the making of two school buildings in Lucerne (1857) and Zurich (1897).