Kids had fun coloring this big architecture mural at the Chicago Cultural Center as part of the archKIDecture program at the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2023/24.
Tag: architecture
A Terrific Teaching Guide about Architecture for Kids
The folks at the Chicago Architecture Biennial have put together a robust, well-designed and chock-full-of-good stuff teaching guide for teachers, adults or kids. We recommend it for your journey into using architecture as the subject of your inquiry. The guide explains why architecture is a great medium for learning a lot of different subjects, and […]
Architecture Fashion – Wear a Building?
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 […]
Hiya High Line!
On a visit to New York City we were able to visit the relatively new and incredibly great High Line. You may have heard about this great urban project – where some dedicated citizens who were tired of looking at some old, unused raised railroad tracks in Manhattan pushed a project to make these old […]