Kids aged 7-9 in Scottsdale are lucky to have an opportunity to learn at Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and school in Arizona in a summer camp about architecture. The goal is to promote creative thinking and problem solving – and to see the results of Wright’s brainwork has got to be inspirational. Sessions […]
Month: May 2015
High School Architecture Camp
Lucky for 25 kids who get to go to an architecture camp this summer at the Tulare Campus of College of the Sequoias from June 15 to July 22, 2015 in the mornings. This camp is for high school aged kids who want to gain skills in drawing and drafting and also model making. The camp ends […]
Join the Green Dollhouse Challenge
We just heard about the Green Dollhouse Challenge, a competition of the most politically correct kind! In this Challenge, participants range from 1 – 100 years old, pre-schoolers to aged architects (and anyone in between.) Sponsored by the EnergyTeachers.org organization, the competition is meant to encourage creative thinking in the field of energy efficiency, sustainability, […]
History Lesson: Robert Robinson Taylor
Robert Robinson Taylor is featured on a US Postal Service Stamp but you might not have heard of him. He is one of the earliest African American architects, and the first black man to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1892. Originally from North Carolina, Taylor was the son of a slaveowner […]