¡Despejar la inteligencia y fortalecer el espíritu! Unas escuelas para Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, un proyecto frustrado de Laureano Arroyo

Abstract

This article deals with the project for some schools wich Laureano Arroyo, as municipal architect, drew up in 1891. The lack of buildings for primary education in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria led the City Council, on various occasions in the 19th century, to consider applying for a grant wich the Ministry of Development awarded to municipalities, to enables those interested to have this type of architecture. In order to put this failed enterprise into context, we have divided the research into three parts. In the first part, we present a series of data that reveal the previous actions of the City Council in relation to its school teachers and the buildings that were used for this purpose, which helps us to understand the reason for its report. In the second part we refer to the data about the project, while the third part is related to the trajectory of the arquitect in question.