Champaign-Urbana is the home of the University of Illinois. Go visit in the summer and stay to learn about being an architect. Find out what architects do, how they do it, why they do it and act like an architect yourself. Draw for hours, use laser cutting machines, pens, vellum, and a lot of tissue. Create models with […]
Month: June 2015
BOY versus GIRL TOYS
A long, long time ago, when we at archKIDecture were just young children, only boys got to build with toys. Girls did not. Girls got soft toys, like dolls and stuffed animals, and they could dress them up and carry them around. Boys got toys to build with, blocks and legos, and they got dolls too, […]
Construction Contest for Kids
Do you know about K’Nex? It is a company that makes small plastic building toys that snap together and can move and be large and flexible. 5 to 14 Year olds are able to enter. From June 8 til August 28 this K’Nex company is holding a contest for K’Nex builders, called K’Nexperts. They say […]