School buildings mostly end up being either boring or daunting. But what if they could be designed to be attractive to children and make learning enjoyable?
To this end, Kabir and Preeti Vajpeyi, both architects, devised BaLa or Building As Learning Aid. Since 1998, working through their design firm, Vinyas, they have taken BaLa to state governments to enliven public schools and make infrastructure part of the learning process. More than 200,000 schools have been reached.
In addition to schools, they have been working on redesigning anganwadis which are in particularly bad shape though they play a. . .
