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Architecture for Kids

Quick, who designed the geodesic dome? What's a cantilever look like? What makes one building style different from another?
Alumni of our hands-on "Architecture for Kids" camp can tell you the answer to all these questions, and more! They spent their week learning about architecture and design, and then trying their hand at some (smaller-scale) building and designing projects.

Some of the buildings created by our budding architects.

Original Designs!

Camper with creation
Camper with creation
Camper with creation
Camper with creation
Camper with creation
Camper with creation
Camper with creation
Camper with creation

Show me...

A human dome
How compression works.
...a dome!
...compression!
 
Vaulted tunnel.
Human columns.
...a vaulted tunnel!
...columns!

 

Element-ary!

Campers also completed projects on specific elements of design, such as line, texture, and color.
Marshmallow-and-toothpick geodesic structures
Skyline study
Color study
Color modeling
Carving practicum
Studies in texture
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