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In 1939, the Superintendent of Schools in Winnetka, Illinois called upon a firm of young, progressive architects, Perkins, Wheeler, and Will, and asked them to draw up a plan for a new type of school in collaboration with Eliel and Eero Saarinen. He told them he was looking for "a beautiful, practical architectural embodiment of an educational philosophy." The result, the Crow Island School, was ranked 12th among all buildings and 1st among all schools in a 1956 Architectural Record poll naming the "most significant buildings built in America in the past 100 years." Among the school's many honors is a 1971 award from the AIA for design of enduring significance. At the ceremony it was said that "there have been no significant advances in elementary school design since Crow Island School." |
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