Sticks and stones: can architects be built in the classroom?

2011-04-21T16:37:09-04:00

... one of the big problems in Britain – a country infamous for its visual illiteracy, or so say outsiders – is that architecture isn't taught to children, not much in the home, and much less at school. What an all-embracing discipline it is, though, for teachers and pupils alike: a fusion of art, maths, geometry, geography, physics, technology, politics, economics and environmental concerns.

The Guardian's Jonathan Glancey discusses the architectural education, or lack thereof, in the British early childhood education system.

I honestly don’t think that I would have been an artist had I not lived in the house.

2011-04-12T22:17:36-04:00

"There’s not one bit of drywall or plasterboard or anything like that, so everything has a material that is itself."

Jen Graves interviews artist Leo Berk, who claims his childhood home, the Ruth Berk house by "not-quite-legitimate architect, in a good way, Bruce Goff", was the formative experience that made him become an artist.

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Sticks and stones: can architects be built in the classroom?

I honestly don’t think that I would have been an artist had I not lived in the house.