Elementary School Outside Prague by SOA Architekti Celebrates Learning, Community, and Passive Architecture

Many schools throughout the Czech Republic bear the grim mark of endgame Eastern Bloc architecture, their design stuck in the 1980s. Not very inspiring to the young students passing through them. Elementary School Amos, however, in the small Bohemian town of Psáry, is unlike any of them. Seven years ago, a national architecture competition called for proposals for Amos. SOA Architekti, a small studio based in Prague that had been focused on interior-design and residential projects, beat out the 62 other firms that entered.