U članku se analiziraju izvorišta pokreta za odgoj u prirodi koji doživljava zamah u pedagoškoj praksi prve polovice 20. stoljeća, te njegove implikacije na prostor u kojem se realizira obrazovni proces temeljen na filozofskim, pedagoškim, psihološkim i zdravstvenim premisama pokreta. Na europskim i hrvatskim primjerima se ilustrira geneza paviljonskog tipa škola, koji je karakterističan za obrazovne institucije u kojima je pedagoški proces temeljen na postavkama pokreta za odgoj u prirodi, utjecaj na arhitekturu škola između dva svjetska rata te relacija prema aktualnim tendencijama u međuratnoj europskoj arhitekturi.The article analyses the origins of the open-air education movement, which blossomed in the pedagogical practice of the first half of the 20th century, as well as its implications on the space in which an educational process based on the philosophical, pedagogical, psychological and health postulates of the movement took place. The genesis of the pavilion school, characteristic for educational institutions in which the educational process was based on the open-air school movement, is illustrated on European and Croatian examples, followed by an outline of its influence on interwar school-architecture in general, as well as its relation to contemporary tendencies in European interwar architecture