Employ the real-world focus of architecture to apply math, social studies, and science concepts in an authentic and meaningful context, simultaneously extending knowledge & skills, and reinforcing objectives.
*Form follows function*
Architecture education inspires curiosity, understanding, and a love of learning by reuniting academic disciplines with the real-world contexts for which they were invented. Architecture encompasses: geometry and measurement, physics and biology, history and anthropology, art and technology.
Architecture students use higher-order thinking skills to analyze, synthesize, design, create, scale, connect, construct, modify, improve, solve problems, decode, transform, and chronicle.
The vocation-based nature of architecture education also supports the skills students will need to work in the 21st century:
critical thinking, creative thinking, collaborating,
communicating, information literacy, technology
literacy, flexibility, initiative, productivity, and leadership.
*Form follows function*
Architecture education inspires curiosity, understanding, and a love of learning by reuniting academic disciplines with the real-world contexts for which they were invented. Architecture encompasses: geometry and measurement, physics and biology, history and anthropology, art and technology.
Architecture students use higher-order thinking skills to analyze, synthesize, design, create, scale, connect, construct, modify, improve, solve problems, decode, transform, and chronicle.
The vocation-based nature of architecture education also supports the skills students will need to work in the 21st century:
critical thinking, creative thinking, collaborating,
communicating, information literacy, technology
literacy, flexibility, initiative, productivity, and leadership.
Architecture as Social Studies
A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture arises out of our need to shelter the human animal in a spatial environment and to enclose the social animal in a group space. In this sense architecture serves our institutions and expresses the values of our culture.
-Robert Geddes, FAIA
Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.
-Carl Magnussen
Documentary: Architecture & History
Sketchup in the
Elementary Classroom
by David McDavitt, M.Ed.