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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
archKIDecture has a fun drop-in program happening on December 9, 2023 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! The Chicago Cultural Center building is a gem of a structure. It is the former Chicago Public Library building which […]
Anna Wagner Keichline was one of the first women to be a registered architect in the US – back from 1906-1911 in the great state of Pennsylvania. She also designed a bunch of things and earned patents for them, which was quite unusual for a woman in the US back then. One of the useful […]