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 […]
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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 […]
Fold On! Look at that Paper Building!
Paper artist, Yee, has a new book titled, “Origami Architecture” and guess what? You can make your own paper buildings. These paper models are intricate and astounding, and the author was kind enough to give a CD with the book so that you can download the patterns yourself and build your own paper city. Try […]
Green and Proud
So there is an architect, well he is really called an “architectural botanist”, named Patick Blanc. He comes from France and works all of the world, to make architecture out of plants. Walls of buildings – both inside walls and outside walls – that are just covered in furry, luxurious greenery. There are buildings that […]
Boys and Girls and Building Toys
When I was a kid I did not play with Barbie dolls. I did not want to. But I also did not play with building toys. They were for boys and I am a girl. Back in the days when I was a kid, (in the Stone Ages) boys and girls did not play with […]
Houses of Paper
This Japanese architecture firm has designed some really interesting projects, including this project in Japan, which was built as temporary housing after a natural disaster. The architecture firm, called Shigeru Ban Architects is very successful at building projects out of paper and cardboard. Especially since paper and cardboard are easy to manufacture and recyclable too. […]