Far from the madding crowd

Building kindergartens that will challenge existing norms about rural education was the aim of one architect couple when they set out to design two new schools, Fang Aiqing reports.

Will a new kindergarten change the way rural parents and children think of education?

Beijing-based architect Dong Hao and his German wife Binke Lenhardt, also an architect, are keen to find a positive answer to this question.