BUILDING ON TRADITION

摘要

Miriam Schiller tells first-time visitors to the Akiba-Schechter Jewish Day School on Chicago's South Side, "You'll see the building. It's the one with the Hebrew letters on it." Schiller is principal of the school, an institution founded in 1971 that teaches 250 students from preschool through eighth grade in dual two-story structures: a 1950s edifice of limestone, brick, and concrete (originally the Hebrew school for an adjacent, now-demolished synagogue) and a brand new precast-concrete-and-copper-clad building by local architect John Ronan.