Leutschenbach School

Christian Kerez’s Leutschenbach School is a building with a secret life. Behind its austere structurally expressive facade one might expect to find a grid of bureaucratic office cubicles, a minimalist modern museum, or even an architecture office filled with designer furniture. In reality, however, the building is home to an elementary school. Every morning, this reserved piece of architecture fills to the brim with young Swiss children and all of the chaos that they bring: backpacks and crayons strewn across its polished concrete floors, forgotten toys littering its elegant balconies, and tiny little handprints covering every inch of its pristine glass windowpanes.