The White House is one BIG and FAMOUS house. Located in Washington DC, it is the house of the President of the United States and also the workplace for the President and the President’s staff. Originally designed by James Hoban and built in 1792, the US won independence from Britain in 1783, the first White […]
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Architecture Pipe Cleaner Project
Want to build something with old fashioned pipe cleaners? How about trying to build the tallest building possible with some pipe cleaners? Take a limited number of pipe cleaners, say 15. Then try to build the tallest structure possible. Try to twist them together or tie them up or whatever you can do to make […]
John Lloyd Wright built with Logs!
Famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, designed many buildings that were very progressive. Victorian-styled buildings were all the rage when he started to design buildings that emphasized the horizontals of the flat Midwest, with large overhanging eaves and windows grouped in horizontal bands. It was bananas! This kind of design was so new and so different. […]
Really Remarkable Reading Room
Whether or not you want to read any of the books in this room, the library room at the Stony Island Arts Bank will make you want to become a major book lover. The room is very tall and there are rows and rows of books that are donated from the Johnson Publishing Company. Over 60,000 […]
Summer 2016 Architecture Camps for Kids in Chicago area
We just got wind of some great camps in Oak Park, Illinois, just west of Chicago, where kids from 1st grade through 8th grade can find a camp that might just knock your socks off. Called BASE camp, the Oak Park Park Education Foundation serves around 1000 kids who get to learn about STEAM concepts. STEAM stands […]
Inside the Interiors of the movie “The BFG”
In the new film, “The BFG” there are some spectacular spaces and places to see. It is worth seeing because it is one of the sweetest movies ever, and you can also see it to see the interior architectural spaces. Filmed in 3D, the little girl, Sophie is taken from an orphanage and brought to […]
Julia Morgan – Great Architect
Julia Morgan had many firsts. She was the first woman to graduate from the L’Ecole de Beaux Arts in 1901, the first woman to receive an architecture License in California and one of the first women to go to the University of California at Berkeley in civil engineering. So being a woman who designed buildings back in […]
Birthday Cheer for the Reitveld Chair
Gerrit Reitveld has a birthday today! He was born in 1888 on June 24. Known for his designs and as part of the De Stijl movement, he is probably most famous for this chair in black, red, yellow,blue and red. Almost like he took some toy wooden blocks and attached them together at various geometric points, […]
A Hidden Structure
663 cars are hiding underground. Well, they are not really hiding, they are parked in this well-concealed parking lot in the Netherlands. Looking like a home for Hobbits, this structure won the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects award for the Best Dutch Building of the Year 2016. We think that it might be a great […]
Jane Jacobs Day at Google!
See Jane stop that building from being demolished! What a great person – Jane Jacobs was an activist – who wrote a book in 1961 titled “[amazon_link id=”067974195X” target=”_blank” ]The Death and Life of Great American Cities[/amazon_link]”. She took on urban planners who thought that cities were unhealthy and nasty places and that they should be […]