Crow Island
A deep look at the one building that reordered what American schools could be: Perkins & Will with Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Winnetka, 1940.
Low horizontal brick massing, and no monumental stair to climb.
Photo: Mushahid Shahid / Pexels
2 pieces in Crow Island
Everything →- Everything Set at the Height of the Hand That Used ItCrow Island School (Perkins & Will with Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Winnetka, Illinois, 1940) is the building most often cited as the moment American school architecture changed its reference point from the institution to the child.
- What to Look at If You GoCrow Island School remains in active use as a public school in Winnetka, Illinois, and has been a National Historic Landmark since 1989; this piece is a documented visitor's account of the building's specific details — the courtyard, the classroom wing doors, the clerestory, the integration of landscape and structure — drawn from the landmark nomination and published architectural surveys, without reference to current enrolment or any currently attending person.