Architecture and Transportation

To understand people and culture, study them where they live. Construct simplified model houses to consider the climates, resources, materials and traditions that define culture. Focus on a region and a historic area and create façades of local architecture.

We construct castles and temples, pyramids and pagodas from far off lands and far off centuries. Building connects the hands and minds of your students to the hands and minds of the world and to one another. Great architecture is built with the cooperation that builds community.

Choose two mini projects that will take 1.5 hours to build:

• Brazilian Stilt Houses
• Mexican and South West American Adobe Houses in the Pueblo tradition
• Irish Sod Houses
• Chinese Gates
• Egyptian Funeral Barge
• Roman Villa
• Greek Temples
• Ndebele Houses of South Africa
• Venetian Gondola
• European Castle
• House from Cameroon
• Spanish Fort