100 Objects from Century of the Child

Jan Duiker. Cliostraat Openluchtschool voor het Gezonde Kind (Open-air school for the healthy child), Amsterdam. 1927-30 Though open-air schools–which emphasized welcoming, flexible spaces and access to plenty of fresh air and sunlight–from earlier in the century had been largely focused on serving sickly children, this school was for the healthy. By deploying large windows, cantilevered concrete structures, and steel frames Duiker designed a compact building flooded with light and air. Of his design, the architect said, “Modern techniques enable us to keep the material used in the building to a minimum and to heat these almost entirely open spaces without any difficulty so that children need only wear the lightest clothing, as is medically recommended.” Learn more at MoMA.org/centuryofthechild

Jan Duiker. Cliostraat Openluchtschool voor het Gezonde Kind (Open-air school for the healthy child), Amsterdam. 1927-30

Though open-air schools–which emphasized welcoming, flexible spaces and access to plenty of fresh air and sunlight–from earlier in the century had been largely focused on serving sickly children, this school was for the healthy. By deploying large windows, cantilevered concrete structures, and steel frames Duiker designed a compact building flooded with light and air. Of his design, the architect said, “Modern techniques enable us to keep the material used in the building to a minimum and to heat these almost entirely open spaces without any difficulty so that children need only wear the lightest clothing, as is medically recommended.”

Learn more at MoMA.org/centuryofthechild

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Get your daily dose of design from the MoMA exhibition Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000. During each of the 100 days of the exhibition we will showcase an object featured in the show.

To find out more about Century of the Child visit MoMA.org/centuryofthechild.

Purchase the exhibition catalogue on MoMAStore.org or get the digital edition for the iPad on iTunes.

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