AbstractIn Brazil, at the beginning of the republican period, with the understanding of education as a tool for progress, the practice of creating school institutions based on a standard model emerged. The country’s industrialization process, together with the standardization of architecture, meant that the reproduction of standardized projects became common at the national level, based on the justification of development through the rationalization and standardization of construction. In the 1990s, the country implemented new social programs, one of them based on full-time education with a new pedagogical structure, materialized in the Comprehensive Centres for Child and Adolescent Care - CIACs - standard design schools designed by the architect João Filgueiras Lima. In 1992, the program that originated the CIAC schools were changed and this model institution was renamed CAIC - Compr...

AbstractIn Brazil, at the beginning of the republican period, with the understanding of education as a tool for progress, the practice of creating school institutions based on a standard model emerged. The country’s industrialization process, together with the standardization of architecture, meant that the reproduction of standardized projects became common at the national level, based on the justification of development through the rationalization and standardization of construction. In the 1990s, the country implemented new social programs, one of them based on full-time education with a new pedagogical structure, materialized in the Comprehensive Centres for Child and Adolescent Care - CIACs - standard design schools designed by the architect João Filgueiras Lima. In 1992, the program that originated the CIAC schools were changed and this model institution was renamed CAIC - Compr...