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, […]
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A Grand Hotel on Film
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 […]
Steppin’ Out with architecture
Just glimpsed these fantastic shoes, designed by a young woman named Esther from Oak Park, Illinois. Fashionable and cool, who could argue that we could all use a pair like this. Kudos to you, Esther!
Pink Mangrove Tree Towers?
In China, a design firm might build the tallest pink buildings in the world. Well, the tallest buildings in the world. And they will be pink. And a kilometer tall. And they look like the roots of Mangrove trees. And they will filter water from a nearby lake, filter air, grow gardens along the vertical […]
Stamp City
Paper Neighborhood is a great stamping kit that comes in a can. You can build a typical apartment building with 21 stamps of windows, columns and doors in the Italianate style. The set was designed by people named the Cincinnati Society of Rubber Architects. It might be fun to stamp on paper bags and place […]
A Lego World in Google
A new app, called “Build with Chrome” allows you to build a lego building online with as many blocks as you need at no cost! Yahoo! And then once you are satisfied with your structure, you place it in the world, on an empty area of a Google Map, that is made of Legos. YOu […]
Build a House in High School
In Evanston Illinois, two teachers have built an unusual and fantastic new high school course called “Geometry in Construction” (GiC). A hands-on course, GiC integrates Geometry and Construction topics where kids actually BUILD a structure – a real construction project. Kids will engage in their learning and be able to build something useful in the […]
More of that Way Back Machine
So the other day we mentioned Vitruvius, who wrote the 10 books of architecture, which are the foundation for all writing about architecture, really the HISTORY of architecture…even though they were written over 2000 years ago. So not as long ago, a certain man named Leonardo of Pisa, nicknamed Fibonacci, introduced the idea of the […]
A Bit o’History of Architecture
Back in Ancient Rome, in the First Century B.C.E., an architect named Vitruvius wrote a series of ten books on architecture titled “De Architectura”. These books were hand written and illustrated and we are sure they were absolutley GORGEOUS, but alas, not one copy of them survived. In the 15th century, some monks in Italy […]
Easy as Pie! A Six-Step Process
If you think about a project, whether it is a project to bake a pie or build a building, any process can be broken down to a series of steps. Let’s see, to make a pie you have to take out your pie pan, preheat your oven, mix the dough for the crust. Roll out […]