Category: archKID facts

In an old factory in Los Angeles, some people have gotten together and created an architecture school that costs nothing to attend. The Container Yard in downtown LA is a new concept for architecture education. The barriers created by costing too much for many students have been brought down. This is not a replacement for […]

This might be the right book for you! The Aspiring Architect is a workbook, well let’s not call it a WORK book…it is more like a FUN book where you can draw, color, and sketch and (meanwhile) learn something about architecture too. It is an exploration of architecture that is big and famous, like Jefferson’s Monticello, as […]

Menno Aden is an artist who photographs rooms from above, like a bird looking down into a room without a roof. How does he find all of these rooms without roofs? There are never people in these rooms so they have this sort of abstract feeling, like it is playroom for dolls and not real at […]

The White House is one BIG and FAMOUS house. Located in Washington DC, it is the house of the President of the United States and also the workplace for the President and the President’s staff. Originally designed by James Hoban and built in 1792,  the US won independence from Britain in 1783, the first White […]

Julia Morgan had many firsts. She was the first woman to graduate from the L’Ecole de Beaux Arts in 1901, the first woman to receive an architecture License in California and one of the first women to go to the University of California at Berkeley in civil engineering. So being a woman who designed buildings back in […]

See Jane stop that building from being demolished! What a great person – Jane Jacobs was an activist – who wrote a book in 1961 titled “[amazon_link id=”067974195X” target=”_blank” ]The Death and Life of Great American Cities[/amazon_link]”. She took on urban planners who thought that cities were unhealthy and nasty places and that they should be […]

Crumpled paper. A small empty box. Some tangled wire. An acorn. A roll of tape. Sou Fujimoto, a Japanese architect, thinks that any of these items might be considered architecture and he has placed these and MANY other items on small pedestals in the Chicago Cultural Center in an exhibit titled, “Architecture is Everywhere.” Putting […]

You know when you play Twister and you start out and it is easy? Right hand on the blue dot, left foot on the red dot. No problem. But as you continue spinning the arrow, it gets more and more difficult to get that right foot in the right place, and hey, your right hand […]

A long, long time ago, when we at archKIDecture were just young children, only boys got to build with toys. Girls did not. Girls got soft toys, like dolls and stuffed animals, and they could dress them up and carry them around. Boys got toys to build with, blocks and legos, and they got dolls too, […]

The Grand Budapest Hotel. What a great movie. We love that the whole story revolves around a building, a great structure, that is all derived from the imagination of Wes Anderson, the creator, and director of the film. The hotel is bigger than life in the movie, but in real life it is a model […]