This is not about having a pet sheep, or sheep in the meadow near your house. This is about using sheep wool to insulate your house. In Buenos Aires, an architecture firm designed a very sleek house and instead of using other materials to insulate and keep the house cozy and warm, they selected to […]
Category: archKID facts
are we having a laugh? an archKIDecture JOKE
Q: Did you hear about the Architect who wore two jackets when he painted the house? A: The instructions on the can said: “Put on two coats.” From this website – https://www.architect-us.com/blog/2017/08/some-architecture-related-jokes/ – only sort of funny…
What is Home?
The Lego Company that makes LEGO®. Obviously. We love ’em too. LEGO® offers a great supply of projects that they share for free. We looked around and found this one, related to the idea of architecture. It is called “about the idea of “My Home“. It is a 30 minute project to be made with […]
2024 OpenHouse Dublin JUNIOR!
OpenHouse has been a terrific event across the world, where buildings open up to the public for a weekend allowing us a free peek into spaces where we otherwise might not go or might not even know about. In Dublin, Ireland, their version of OpenHouse has a coordinated project in 2024 where there are a […]
Drawing Your Place
We recently found this great book, “A World of Your Own” where the author, Laura Carlin, asked questions like what if your could make your house out of jello or sprinkles. She encourages kids to think beyond real life, outside of the box, up in the clouds. In checking out Carlin, we found this excellent […]
Curriculum Toolkits from the CAB
The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) in 2024 was fun and cool and all that. It also afforded an opportunity for Mobile Makers to partner in the creation of a curriculum toolkit for teaching architecture to school-aged kids. Each year the CAB works to create a curriculum toolkit that relates to the theme of the Biennial […]
That Costume is Amazingly Architectural!
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 […]
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 […]