This architecture firm designs structures that can be built with local materials, without a lot of large equipment or teams of workers, so that people with very little can build structures that are useful and beautiful. In places like Thailand, Uganda and Indonesia, the architecture firm of TYIN tegnestue, from Norway, designs interesting structures to […]
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Too Cool Schools
At the Center for Architecture in New York City, you can visit an exhibit about the architecture of schools – of the fantastic schools of Finland. They are fabulous because the Finnish school system churns out staggering students (with great educations in any case.) Maybe the schools in the US could learn a little from […]
Dr. Spock …What’s Up?
This mosaic can be seen at a Jewish synagogue in Chicago. The building is in great disrepair and the mosaic is one of the only parts of the interior that is still beautiful. When you walk in the building, the paint is peeling, the plaster is torn off, pigeons have pooped all over the benches […]
archKID RECOMMENDS: Origami Architecture Book
Origami Architecture: Papercraft Models of the World’s Most Famous Buildings[/amazon_link] by Yee. Make your own buildings out of paper using the great photo lessons in the book, as well as the patterns from the CD. Intricate and delicate, this is geared for any child who can master an arts knife, like an exacto.
No People Pictures, Please
The Taj Mahal, in Agra is a building that has always made us yearn to visit India. People who have seen it say it is so gorgeous, so white, so stunning, that it stops you in your tracks. A friend visited there and brought us this neat little sculpture of it, made of sandstone. The […]
Build It! Architecture Exhibit for Kids
We built this really cool architecture exhibit for kids that can be rented by the month. There are nine modules and each one describes something different about structures, or has something to play with and build with so that it is pretty fun to hang out around the Build It! exhibit.Libraries, special events, even some […]
Kids Can (and Should) Design
This wonderful drawing was made by our friend, James N. and we just wanted to show it off. An idea that is similar to the drawings of M.C. Escher, the lines weave in and out in an impossible way. We always think about how great it would be to actually walk around in an M.C. […]
Sip that Geodesic Dome!
We saw this little geodesic dome in the halls of one of the science buildings at Northwestern University. What a cool little project with stuff that might be floating around your house – well, floating in your milkshake. (And I am not talking about the nuts and bolts, just the straws.) You just need to […]
Thinking Hard about A Design Competition for KIDS
(Thanks to Kathy Mandell for this Brain Drawing.) Coming out of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, there is a BRAINY design competition for kids in Grades 1 – 8. The Competition is called “Cycles: From Fields to Cities” which is a bit of a confusing name – we thought it had something to do […]
Artists Consider Architecture
A single column of Legos is one artist’s interpretation of architecture. Can you imagine that? Once single column of Lego blocks – granted, it IS pretty tall but doesn’t that just make you want to say, “Really?” The Lego tower is part of a new art exhibit in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art […]