Esse trabalho é um catálogo de onze escolas públicas projetadas no estado de São Paulo num período que se estende por pouco mais de uma década, de 1960 a 1972. Reúne projetos emblemáticos da arquitetura moderna paulistana, de autoria de Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Ubyrajara Gilioli, Paulos Bastos, Décio Tozzi, entre outros. A leitura dos projetos selecionados permite reconhecer suas raízes históricas e arquitetônicas no surgimento da escola republicana, nas conquistas pedagógicas escolanovistas, nas escolas projetadas por Affonso Eduardo Reidy e Oscar Niemeyer, nas obras da Comissão Executiva do Convênio Escolar e, finalmente, na obra precursora do arquiteto João Batista Vilanova Artigas.

This thesis is an analysis of eleven public schools which were projected in the state of São Paulo within a period of little more than ten years from 1960 to 1972. It gathers emblematic projects of the modern architecture of São Paulo with works by Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Ubyrajara Gilioli, Paulos Bastos and Décio Tozzi among others. A comprehensive study of these selected projects allows for an understanding of how they are historically and architectonically rooted in the emergence of public schools during the republic, in the pedagogic accomplishments of the movement of the Escola Nova (New School) , in the schools which were planned and executed by Affonso Eduardo Reidy and Oscar Niemeyer, in the projects of the Comissão Executiva do Convênio Escolar (a council which was established as a collaboration between state and community authorities) , and finally, in the pioneering works of the architect João Batista Vilanova Artigas.