So many of us carry a brown paper bag to school each day, with our peanut butter and jelly sandwich, some peeled carrots, pita chips, perhaps a couple of chocolate chip cookies. But did you ever consider that ordinary bag outside of the confines of lunch? Did you ever think about it as a structure? […]
Doll Houses are miniature worlds. Built to scale, they can be pretty dreamy and fantastic, perfect for a doll, or a mouse. In the UK, many architects were asked to design and build dollhouses and to put them up for auction to benefit kids. The results are spectacular. Some of the doll houses would be […]
Have you seen this beautiful wooden New York City, every night on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon? You can see the Chrysler Building, the Empire State, The Trump Building, The Woolworth Building and so many more. The buildings on the set were designed by Eugene Lee. He is a set designer for plays and […]
Want to visit Chicago and learn about skyscrapers? If you are a teacher, come on down to Chicago for a week long workshop offered through the Chicago Architecture Foundation. From July 6-12, 2014 or July 20-26, 2014 you will explore how to incorporate architecture into your classroom teaching. And we at archKIDecture can tell you […]
Sometimes an artist, designer or architect tries to rethink a common question. In this case it is “What is a door?” Austrian artist Klemens Torggler came up with this sort of origami door that splits in half and folds up. Instead of sliding on a track or a pivot on the corner, the panels fold […]