Ok, his name was Friedrich Froebel, not Freddy, but perhaps he was Freddy to his friends. He did seem to like to make fun for children. He is credited for having invented the first Kindergarten and for designing many toys for children based on geometric shapes, natural materials and fine craftmanship. His toys were called […]
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DRAW IT! archKIDecture workshop
this workshop offers an opportunity to draw something over and over but with a twist. we think you will have fun taking an ordinary object and drawing it over and over again…. workshop details: for folks ages 7-102 | approximately 12 minutes | create a drawing project based on an object in your house | […]
Build a Hexagon Shelf
An On-Line Architectural Drawing Class for Kids
Disney Castle is Pretend – No Surprise
Back to Disneyland. When Walt Disney was designing the theme park based on the animations he created, he wanted the place to be bigger and better than real life. It would be a land of fantasy. To that end, he had the designers design the castle at the entry to the park to LOOK BIGGER […]
Adorable Adobe
Do you know what adobe is? It is a building material that is as old as the hills (not sure what the means) except that adobe has been around for many centuries and it is made of earth (like the hills). It starts out as earth. Earth that is not too wet and yet not […]
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A Tower Named Camp
We love this Danish tower so much. And we hope to be able to visit it someday and climb, climb, climb up to the top and look out in the forest. I mean, who wouldn’t want to go there, to Haslev, Denmark, and visit a 900 meter boardwalk connected to a 45 meter tall observation […]
Cover Up!
Ghanaian artist, Ibrahim Mahama covers up buildings in a most interesting way. The artist takes sacks made of jute, also called hessian sacks, that are commonplace in his native country, Ghana. Artist Mahama has collected a zillion of the sacks and then proceeded to sew them together and completely cover up buildings with the material. […]