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2024 Summer Architecture Programs for Kids and High School Students

2024-03-18T10:00:00-04:00

If you are a parent looking for engaging architecture-focused programs for your kids, or a high school student interested in gaining valuable pre-college experience, take a look below at Archinect's latest highlight of summer architecture programs.

For the 2024 season, we have curated another two-part special featuring educational events for all ages and regions across the United States and Canada. With spring quickly approaching, now is the time to secure your spots.

Part 1 focuses on summer courses and workshops for elementary, middle, and high school students ready to discover architecture's basics.

MIT M.Arch Graduates Alexandre Beaudouin-Mackay & Sarah Wagner Inject "A New Way of Play" Into Architectural Pedagogy

2020-07-20T12:34:00-04:00

Graduates Alexandre Beaudouin-Mackay & Sarah Wagner take architectural pedagogy in a direction driven by play. According to the duo, "by understanding play as a powerful methodology, architects can engage others in creative processes with the ambition of implementing new, meaningful, and imaginative design strategies. Play is not aimless but productive..."

In their thesis project A New Way of Play: The Forms and Functions of Participatory Design and Critical Pedagogies, Beaudouin-Mackay and Wagner they push for architecture to reimagine play. As recent graduates from MIT's School of Architecture, they created a set of play spaces for children in order to understand how different forms of architectural authorship could be challenged.

Archinect's Spotlight on 2020 Thesis Projects: 2020 has been an extraordinarily challenging year for architecture graduates. Students were displaced as schools shut down, academic communities had to adapt to a new virtual format, end-of-year celebration...

Fellow Fellows: Ranitri Weerasuriya, the 2018 Goodman Fellow at GSAPP

2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00

Fellow Fellows is a series that focuses on the increasingly important role fellowships play in architecture academia today. These prestigious academic positions can bring forth a fantastic blend of practice, research, and pedagogical cross-pollination, often within a tight time frame. They also, by definition, represent temporary, open-ended, and ultimately precarious employment for aspiring young designers and academics. Fellow Fellows aims to understand what these positions offer for both the fellows themselves and the discipline at large by presenting their work and experiences through an in-depth interview. Fellow Fellows is about bringing attention and inquiry to the otherwise maddening pace of academia, while also presenting a broad view of the exceptional and breakthrough work being done by people navigating the early parts of their careers.

This week, we talk to Ranitri Weerasuriya, the 2018-2019 Percival and Naomi Goodman Fellow from Columbia University Graduate School of ...

Generation Z, It's Your Turn; A Look at 11 of This Year's Most Exciting Architecture Summer Camps

2019-04-10T12:19:00-04:00

In July, about 10 students, ages 14 to 18, will gather at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore the possibilities of computer-controlled furniture. They will be researching, conceptualizing, innovating, designing and making things like self-sorting bookshelves and alarm clocks that force you out of bed. Titled “Robotic Living”, the two-week course is one of nine studio classes on offer this summer through NuVu, an innovation school geared towards middle and high school students.

What Are Your Kids Doing This Summer? A Look at Architecture Summer Camps Around the Country

2017-04-27T11:47:00-04:00

At least in Los Angeles, we have already started hitting temperatures over 90 degrees Fahrenheit signaling the coming of summer. For parents, this is often an urgent reminder that the school year will be ending soon and plans need to be in place for the summer. For those already expecting little builders out of their offspring, here are a few summer camp options to tide them over.

Never Too Young; 15 Librarian-Recommended Architecture Books for Young Children

2014-08-05T14:48:00-04:00

They say children are made readers on the laps of their parents. I couldn’t agree more, but what else can a child become between the covers of a book? A chef, an astronaut, an architect? Yes, yes, and yes. Books entertain us, expand us, spark the imagination, and expose us to new worlds. A child can find themselves—present and future—amongst the pages of a great story. Looking out from there, anything seems possible.

Elementary school librarian, Jennette Neville, shares her top recommendations for young, aspiring builders...