Simply Wright
Simply Wright - A Journey into the Ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright's Architecture was written by Diane Bresnan Fleming for children ages 6-12, but it is a book readers of all ages enjoy. It explains and illustrates the concepts of Wright's work and includes over 70 photos.
This book has received an "Outstanding Achievement" Award from the Wisconsin Library Association, and the author received a citation for "Distinguished Service to the Profession of Architecture" from AIA Wisconsin for her work on the book. Simply Wright is the only book anywhere that explains Wright's concepts to children at their reading level. AIA Wisconsin has copies available for members to borrow in our lending library. Contact the AIA Wisconsin office for lending information.
Architecture In Education
A Resource of Imaginative Ideas and Tested Activities
Architecture in Education is an invaluable resource developed for teachers and students that cleverly integrates concepts in architecture and the built environment into the existing standardized K-12 curriculum. Focused on the subject areas of social studies, language arts, science, math and fine arts, the manual takes a comprehensive approach to learning and forms the basis for an interdisciplinary educational environment.
Architecture in Education consists of hundreds of lessons, activities, and illustrations and covers such topics as the design of houses and cities and the structural properties of materials like steel and concrete. The curriculum opens students up to an understanding of the places in which they live, learn, and work and how they can help to make these places better. No previous experience in teaching about architecture is necessary. A copy is available to members through the AIA Wisconsin Lending Library.
Architecture in Education (PDF download)
This is a downloadable, 221- page PDF available for purchase. Cost: $5.00.
Just for fun: LEGO your House
Calculate how many LEGOS it takes to build your house
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Buildings Speak
The 20-minute video, How
Buildings Speak, illustrates how Architecture affects us every day.
Featuring many familiar Wisconsin buildings, it introduces students
to the basic elements of Architecture: form, scale, color, texture
and materials. The video was produced by AIA Wisconsin and the Wisconsin
Architects Foundation. As students learn the language of Architecture,
they discover that buildings have a lot of say about the world around
them.
Produced by AIA Wisconsin Architects in Schools Committee.
Contact the AIA Wisconsin office for lending information.
Terrace Town
The Monona Terrace biennial Terrace Town program challenges Dane County classrooms to design and build models of sustainable communities. Teachers work in partnership with volunteer "mentors"- architects, planners, and design professionals- to facilitate the students' work over several months. Terrace Town will next occur in the 2011/12 school year, with culminating events on February 3 and 4, 2012. Download the Volunteer's Job Description (PDF).
More information is available on the Monona Terrace Educators page
Host a Barbie Workshop
Architects interested in sharing the profession with the next generation is invited to host an Architect Barbie Workshop in their community. The Architect Barbie Workshop Toolkit contains a step-by-step guide to setting up a workshop, as well as sample documents and activities that can be tailored to your specific event.
DiscoverDesign: A Student Design Experience
DiscoverDesign is a free web-based learning tool for teens created by the Chicago Architecture Foundation. It empowers teens to gain architectural skills, learn green design principles, engage in problem solving, and connect to an online community of their peers, their teachers and design professionals around the world. It’s ideal for use in Career and Tech Ed classes and Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) courses. Educators in art and science also find DiscoverDesign to be rigorous and relevant for their cross-disciplinary project-based learning.
So you want to be an architect - Part 1 (You Tube Video)
Part 1 in a seven part series where we learn how the architect invents by creating something of new utility.
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So, do you think you have what it takes to be an architect? Visit ArchCareers.org and explore more! |
The Architect's Journey: Exploring a Future in Architecture, AIA, PDF
Roger K. Lewis, FAIA, Architect? A Candid Guide to the Profession, MIT Press, 1998
Lee W. Waldrep, Ph.D., Becoming an Architect: A Guide to Careers in Design - 2nd Edition, J Wiley & Sons, 2010
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Architecture
Education K-12 Resources (AIA)
• ArchCareers.org This Web site will give you an overview to the varied and diverse
paths to a career in architecture and of the requirements for registration.
• Discussion
Topics and Activity suggestions for Architects visiting Classrooms
& General Groups (MS Excel spreadsheet
for download; prints on 8 1/2 x 11" sheet)
Grades K-2 : Construction Ahead! http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/pigs/oink1.html Designing a stronger and more efficient house.
Duration: 2 hours
UW-Milwaukee Architecture Summer Camp: This program
gives high school students an intensive introduction to the field
of architecture. SARUP students, faculty, and professional architects
offer their time and guidance to students who participate in this
program. .
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The School for Urban
Planning and Architecture (SUPAR) is a Milwaukee Public High
School created in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's
School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
• NCARB
- Becoming an Architect
• NCARB
- Studying Architecture
• ARE - Taking
the Exam
• Monona
Terrace Educator's Page | Terrace
Town Program
• Milwaukee
Art Museum Tours and Facts
• Wisconsin
State Capitol Tours and Facts
• Self-Guided
Historic Walking Tours
• Walking
Tours (Madison Trust for Historic Preservation)
• Architecture
Careers information at Akropolis.net
Design Online
Design a House with Frank Lloyd Wright
Sponsored by FLW Preservation Trust
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