Category: learn about architecture
Sweet Architecture Alphabet Book
An architect wrote a small book for small people about a large topic: architecture!Fortunately, she wrote it as an alphabet book for kids, so that they could learn the alphabet and look at simple drawings to make their way into the wonderful world of structures and the human built environment. It is titled The Little […]
Beverly Greene: First Black Woman Architect in the US
What is an OGEE?
Learn more about OGEEs at this Wikipedia page.
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 Short Booklet about How to Become an Architect
The booklet was created for the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust in England. It seems to be a valuable opportunity to mention to tell you about Stephen Lawrence. He was aspiring to possibly be an architect, but he was killed in an unprovoked racist attack. Stephen was only 18 years old. The murder occurred in 1993 […]