Abstract/Notes: As the prologue to the research of early childhood education and care in Southern Europe, I noted the schools at Sagrada Familia in Catalunya following Montessori Method. Gaudi built the Schools at Sagrada Familia around 1909, mainly with the goal of providing schooling for children in the neighborhood growing up around the Temple and for the children of the people working on the site, expanding beyond the professional and personal knowledge of the parents to give their children more culture. The teaching style chosen was new and broke with all the old educational methods, following the new teaching methods of Maria Montessori. The most distinctive thing about the architecture of this building is its wavy facades. The walls and roof transformed the traditional technique of fl at brick vaults because, as the schools set out to open up new paths in teaching, so did Gaudi with his new architecture.

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