The architecture for educational buildings and school complexes reworked by Luis Malaussena had a great impact on the construction of a new national identity. The architect, recognized for his metropolitan work by the Caracas Municipal Council under the administration of Governor Gui­llermo Pacanins, developed academic compositional formulas in the buildings constructed between 1940 and 1945. The Miguel Antonio Caro high school, which was originally the Normal School for Men in Caracas and later became the Miguel Antonio Caro Normal School, is a complex of five paired, contin-uous, two-story buildings initially designed as housing for the normal school teachers. In the body intended for boarding, composed of halls and courtyards, Malaussena achieved formal unity through articulated volumes that show climate control elements. The use of formal tools like a balcony and a porch contribute to a play of chiaroscuro on the façade that enhance and enliven the ornament-free austere architecture. The bodies for teacher housing are arranged around a central double-height void with a glass cover, unlike the dormitories, where the façade has small square holes in the walls, producing an intimate lighting within. Currently the school is inside the Park of the West (Ali Primera) in Catia, and teaches preschool, elementary school, special education and night school.