On August 10th, you need to get to the Boroughbridge Library (in Boroughbridge, UK of course…) because there is going to be an event to build with lots and LOTS of Legos! Anyone is welcome and the session is free. We live in the US, but this might warrant a trip across the pond (also […]
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A Real-Life Origami House?
Fold it up in the winter and open it up when the weather warms up, this house moves around on tracks so that it can change shape. How great is that? An architecture firm in London, called D*Haus came up with this moveable structure called the D*Dynamic. The definition of dynamic is “characterized by constant change, […]
U of Illinois wants YOU to Discover Architecture
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 […]
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 […]
Wright Kind of Summer Camp
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 […]
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 […]
Dwelling on a Cincinnati Architecture Education Project
You can’t really argue with a program that is a free, hands-on, project-based learning experience for schools, educators and students, grades K-12. Cincinnati is one lucky place indeed! The project called Design Lab is an in-classroom program that includes visits by built-environment professionals who visit the classroom one time per month for four months in a row. […]