Wanted to let you know that there is an exciting architecture for kids event planned at The Branch Museum of Architecture and Design for kids to learn a lot about various fields related to architecture and the built environment. FEBRUARY 3, 2018 in Richmond Virginia. Frankly, we had never heard of this museum before at […]
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People Who Live in Paper Houses…
We still have not been able to get to Washington DC in a really long time and so we have never had the privilege of visiting the National Building Museum. (Hope to go in 2018!!) Anyway, one of the current exhibits is a series of eighty – YES 80!! – paper models of architecture from […]
Brave Women of Architecture!
Women have not always been welcome in the field of architecture. It is a sad truth. A new web project, Pioneering Women in Architecture, is a well-designed site that focuses on a handful of women who were brave and strong-willed enough to push through the boundaries created to keep women and others out of positions […]
A Sort of an Architect…
Sometimes someone trains as an architect and does not design any structures at all. Sometimes he or she thinks about the built environment and writes about it and never builds anything. Big and small ideas can come from people trained in architecture. Some of the ideas are about building up and some are about unbuilding. […]
Pink Houses in Sweden
Artist Olek wanted to create a work (or two) that would recognize the difficulty of so many displaced people in the world without housing. So she designed two projects in Kerava Sweden and another in Avesta Sweden Olek worked with a team of women to crochet large pink squares and then the team assembled the […]
What Lies Underneath the City?
Author Kate Ascher shows us what runs our cities – literally, how the water travels through the pipes, the electricity through wires and cables, and streets and all of the other elements that make a city run…these are all called infrastructure. INFRASTRUCTURE is a LARGE WORD. The Wikipedia definition is “Infrastructure is the fundamental facilities and […]
Gingerbread Fallingwater House
So you want to build a gingerbread house? Why not impress your neighbors and friends, (or at least people who love architecture) and build a model of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater House? This one was built by some folks who wrote some directions on how to build it youerself. They said it took TEN hours […]
Holiday Gift Idea of Coloring Architecture Coloring Book!
We created a coloring book for kids and adults alike! Coloring Architecture, Interiors is our big fat coloring book with simple enough interior scenes that you won’t need glasses to complete it! Tear out pages and color them with patterns or solids, with bright colors or subdued hues. However you want to see each room […]
A Century of I.M.Pei
Ready set go…blow out those birthday candles, Mr. Pei! This famous architect turned 100years old earlier this year. He was born in 1917 – and has been living as a famous architect for many of those years. Let’s look back at where the world was at in 1917… World War I is taking place and […]
Mini Homes in the Future
What do you think houses will look like in the future? Will you live in a pod? In an inflatable structure? In a box with furry sides and windows? Who knows!! Some architects are playing with ideas about small housing units for future living. Collaborations between designers have created “micro-dwellings” that include a variety of […]