Architecture for teacher training in Avila

From the Escuelas Normales to nowadays in University of Salamanca

Abstract

Since its implementation in the city of Ávila, there have been several venues that have hosted the Teaching studies, adding to this the circumstance that for decades male and female students studied separately. This has contributed to the fact that, from the 1840s to the present day, different buildings have been designed, reused and rebuilt to house a unique teaching system marked from the beginning by the need for classrooms for the development of both theoretical and practical classes. This specificity, together with the growing number of students and the precarious conditions in some cases, led to successive campuses until the current one was built in the 1980s under the institutional protection of the University of Salamanca.