Noelia Voigt had quite a costume for her Miss USA competition. She seemed to have the world on her shoulders as she carried the Empire State Building, the US Capital and the Washington Monument to name a few structures! It helped her to win the competition to become Miss USA. We read that she wanted […]
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Straw and Pipecleaner Spaces
Watch this video to build structures of straws and pipe cleaners.
Make a Modular Polyhedra
A polyhedra is a shape, a solid figure with many sides – usually more than six sides.It is pretty great to be able to cut cardboard to make one shape and then duplicate it over and over. Then assemble the parts and you will see some interesting shapes and it can keep growing.Download the PDF.
Making A Math Shape
You gotta check this out. Euclid was a famous mathematician. He was alive oh so long ago – around 300bce – and he wrote a book called “The Elements” which is one of the most foundational books of math and geometry. There are famous ideas in it, called axioms and others called propositions. One of […]
Summer 2024 Lego Camp for Kids in DC
We wanted to share this info about a summer camp for kids related to architecture. Brick City: World Architecture Brick by Brick is a week-long summer camp in which children will explore architecture from around the world and express their creativity through LEGO® bricks in Washington DC at the National Building Museum. How cool would […]
Fun at the Chicago Cultural Center with archKIDecture
archKIDecture has a fun drop-in program happening on Saturday, February 10 from 1-4pm at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 East Washington, Chicago. It is a program for families, kids, adults, and any combo of these!REGISTER for the FREE PROGRAM The Chicago Cultural Center building is a gem of a structure. It is the former Chicago […]
BuildIt! with archKIDecture with the Chicago Architecture Biennial
archKIDecture has a fun drop-in program happening on December 9, 2023 from 1-4pm at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 East Washington, Chicago. It is a program for families, kids, adults, and any combo of these! The Chicago Cultural Center building is a gem of a structure. It is the former Chicago Public Library building which […]
One of the First Woman Architects
Anna Wagner Keichline was one of the first women to be a registered architect in the US – back from 1906-1911 in the great state of Pennsylvania. She also designed a bunch of things and earned patents for them, which was quite unusual for a woman in the US back then. One of the useful […]
Come on down to downtown Chicago for architecture fun
For the Chicago Architecture Biennial, there is a pop-up program for older kids to participate. Work with Mobile Makers at the Chicago Cultural Center and have some fun. Pop-Up event on Friday 10.27.23 and Saturday 10.28.23from 12-2 for some good clean architecture fun. The Chicago Cultural Center is located at 78 East Washington Street Chicago, […]
are we having a laugh? an archKIDecture JOKE
Q: Why is it sad that parallel lines have so much in common? A: Because they’ll never meet.