Our Schools

Over the years the Salvadori Center has run full programs, residencies, professional development sessions, and after-school workshops in elementary, middle, and high schools throughout the five boroughs as well as outside the city.

No matter the shape or focus of the program, the Salvadori process remains the same. Teachers first attend classes in professional development to become familiar with the Center's pedagogy and to explore topics and themes surrounding the built environment. (For more on the Center's professional development, see our section on Professional Development). Then our architect-educators work side-by-side with teachers in scheduled planning sessions to help them correlate built-environment hands-on projects and activities with required curriculum topics. The purpose of this intensive support is so that schools may gain a solid enough foundation to be ready to implement Salvadori projects independently.

A typical year in the life of a Salvadori classroom might include hands-on investigations of tension and compression, behind-the-scenes trips to landmarked structures like the Chrysler and Woolworth buildings, bridge "scavenger hunts" across the Brooklyn Bridge and in Central Park, mapping and redesigning the local neighborhood using Sanborn maps, designing dream houses for the climate and customs of a far-off culture, constructing life-sized chairs of corrugated cardboard or scaled replicas of butterflies and dragonflies. Some of our schools hold architecture fairs or exhibitions to display the year's achievements; others participate in city-wide or regional competitions.

See it. Build it. Know it. - the Salvadori pedagogy in a nutshell. Engage the hands and engage the minds in order to engage with the world.

Our Current Schools

For the 2007-2008 school year, the Center has programs running in the following schools:


Schools: 1994 to Present