These are real prisons and real schools.
How can students be expected to enjoy their education when schools look like prisons?
Studies have proven what many people intuitively know to be true: that the places we inhabit affect our feelings, mood, behavior, and psychology.

We shape our buildings, and they shape us.
A nation's youth is its future, and the place where they are educated surely deserves special attention and care.

The problem of harmful school architecture has only been worsened by the rise of huge perimeter fences, gates, and turnstiles, all put up in the name of security.

Many schools have become impenetrable fortresses surrounded by metal spikes, cameras, and chicken wire. Safety is necessary, but pursued too zealously it can transform a school into what, from within and without, looks like a bootcamp.

It only requires a little imagination to turn what is intimidating into something charming, meaningful, even beautiful — and equally functional.