Architecture 101 for Kids

What Kids Learn

The emphasis for each class is dependent on the age of the students. Some of the areas of exploration that are covered during each project section are:

How we live: Adjacency of different building types, relationship of human activities to the organizations of towns
and cities, circulation patterns and an increased
awareness of our built environment.

Cultural values: What is important in different cultures and how it is expressed in terms of built forms.

History: How our building types have developed over the
centuries and why.

Math: The students are not aware of it but there is a
reinforcement of what they have learned in school in terms of addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, geometry and scale.

City planning: We will look at layouts of different
cities around the world and use those ideas for designing "Our Town".

Team work: Some of the projects will be divided into teams as with any architectural project.

Confidence in their ideas: Sometimes we lose confidence in ourselves and our ideas. In this class, everyone's ideas have merit and creativity is encouraged.

Synthesis: There is use of a wide variety of knowledge in
different areas to create a solution to a design challenge.

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